–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.
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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 »
So disgusted I don’t have a clever title
Posted in Hard and Soft Sciences, Links, Society, tagged ethics, medicine, merck, news, pharmaceuticals on May 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Merck Pharmaceuticals created a phony peer-reviewed journal to tout one of its own products.
Thanks to Content Love for the link.
“They want us to do ‘A-Train’ again”
Posted in Links, Music and Musicians, Society, tagged duke ellington, new york, take the a train on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New Yorkers celebrate the centennial of Duke Ellington by way of his most famous tune.
Your weird facts for the day!
Posted in Links, tagged Birds, incense, photographs on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I think some of us figured this out years ago: Frankincense is psychoactive.
I don’t *think* this is a hoax: Pictures of a northern cardinal (the bird kind, not the prelate kind) that is male on one side, female on the other.
The Sky in Motion
Posted in Links, tagged astronomy, Videos on December 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s APOD is a glorious four-minute video called “The Sky in Motion”: sun, moon, stars, clouds, meteors moving overhead, the great dance brought to you by the earth’s rotation. Don’t miss it.
In Pursuit of Mysteries » Blog Archive » The Fortunate and Ongoing Disaster of Lay Life
Posted in Buddhism, Links, Society, tagged Buddhism, mahayana, monasticism on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Pursuit of Mysteries » Blog Archive » The Fortunate and Ongoing Disaster of Lay Life.
Al has reposted an interesting, thought-provoking teaching on lay vs. monastic life in Buddhism.
Better than all my rantings–
Posted in Links, tagged dark, quaker pagan, seasons, winter on December 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
–is this musing by Cat Chapin-Bishop on the Dark.
Buddhist teachings on sexuality
Posted in Buddhism, Links, tagged Buddhism, ethics, integral on December 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
At Integral Options Cafe I found this interesting post, which quotes several other sources, on Buddhist ethics, sexual ethics, and specifically attitudes to homosexuality. Here’s a snippet I particularly like:
Right and wrong behavior in Buddhism is generally determined by considerations such as the following:
* Universalibility principle – “How would I like it if someone did [...]
Links to delight and enlighten you
Posted in Buddhism, Druidry, Links, Writers and Writing, tagged blogging, havi brooks, Links, thomas merton on November 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From author Brendan Myers, “How to fight bad books“, specifically bad books about the ancient Celts, their druids, and their religions.
From Havi Brooks, habits educator (and her partner Selma the duck), a wonderful series of blog posts on blogging. (I’ve linked to the most recent post as of today, which contains links to the earlier [...]
What she said
Posted in Links, Nature Awareness, Photography, Wheel of the Year, tagged Links, Photography on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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