Dharma art

I wish to urge students of the dharma who may have forsaken their creative impulse in favor of practice to realize there is no conflict between creativity and meditation. Creativity can be understood, in essence, to be the practice of our own nature and that nature’s expression. You may find your way in to the [...]

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The spirit of bodhicitta

…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 [...]

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Well, duh

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 [...]

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Neato cool article–

–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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A pause on the road

I may try to ignore it, but I feel the energies shifting around me.  It hasn’t really been summer for weeks.  We had three weeks of our worst heat and humidity at the beginning of August, after a comparatively mild summer; when it broke, driven away by tropical storms drifting up the Atlantic coast, I [...]

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RIP, Dr. George Tiller

If I should become pregnant, I would have an abortion. I had my share of parenthood helping to raise my stepdaughter; that’s as much motherhood as I need, want, and can handle. I don’t think abortion is ever a Good Thing, but sometimes it is the Only Right Thing, and therefore it should be legal, [...]

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Where I sit, where I stand

Thorn Coyle asks:
 

What do I call myself? 25 years ago, I would have said a Witch. These days, I might say I am a Pagan Mystic seeking to spread joy and unfold the Mystery. Twenty years from now, I will likely say something else. Twenty years from that, perhaps I will cease to need any [...]

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True. So true.

more lol celebs!

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Deep inside your own heart

It’s a pity, a gentleman in refined retirement composing poetry:
He models his work on the classic verse of China,
And his poems are elegant, full of fine phrases.
But if you don’t write of things deep inside your own heart,
What’s the use of churning out so many words?
–Ryoukan, translated by John Stevens
I’ve always been a good writer.  [...]

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In Pursuit of Mysteries » Blog Archive » The Fortunate and Ongoing Disaster of Lay Life

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.

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