…Although your achievement of the omniscient state may not be beneficial to all living beings, it will definitely bring a lot of practical benefit to certain living beings. Therefore, it is very important that you work for your own achievement of the completely enlightened state. Because there might be living beings who depend very much [...]
Archive for October, 2009
The spirit of bodhicitta
Posted in Buddhism, Quotes, tagged bodhicitta, Buddhism, mahayana, Quotes on October 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The urban druid brings home the movies
Posted in Film and Pop Culture, tagged dominick dunne, don knotts, hot fuzz, poltergeist, shaun of the dead, simon pegg, vic mizzy on October 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
In case you were wondering, faithful readers, I’ve decided to post about… well, everything interesting here. A public mirror of my friends-only Livejournal, leaving out the most personal bits. I hope you enjoy these movie reviews.
Poltergeist: I was doing laundry at my mother-in-law’s yesterday and caught most of this classic 1982 film on cable, and [...]
Beauty calls forth love
Posted in Music and Musicians, tagged andreas scholl, chanticleer, countertenors, daniel taylor, early music, james bowman, la nef, music, perceval on October 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Lately I’ve been bringing CDs to work and ripping them to my hard drive so I can have music to rely on while I’m doing the really tedious parts of my job. (The tedious parts that involve sitting at my desk and writing SuDoc numbers by hand with a pencil and stamping documents and [...]
Well, duh
Posted in Buddhism, Christianity, the work, tagged Buddhism, charles williams, Christianity, dedication of merit, dharma, exchange, mahayana on October 22, 2009 | 6 Comments »
I consider myself a fairly sophisticated if amateur thinker on theological/religious issues. My gentle readers all know that I have tried and practiced multiple paths of the spirit, sometimes more than one at a time. But I *just* figured out something so obvious that once it hit me, it was like Homer Simpson suddenly attaining [...]
Neato cool article–
Posted in Buddhism, Links, Wheel of the Year, tagged Buddhism, chod, hungry ghosts, machig labdron, tibetan buddhism, vajrayana on October 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
–on Halloween and Teh Spooky from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective: Gathering of Ghosts and Demons. It talks about female practitioner Machig Labdron and the practice of chod, offering one’s body as food for the demons and ghosts.
“What do you think I voted for at Omaha Beach?”
Posted in Politics, Society, Videos, tagged equality, gay marriage, glbtq, Politics, Society, video on October 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
One WW2 veteran’s views on equality in marriage and other contexts:
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