The Dalai Lama recently said:
Just as you cannot say that one medicine is best and other medicines are not so good, so you cannot say that this religion is best and others are of not much use.
This generosity of spirit is of course refreshing to hear in our troubled times. The Dalai Lama [...]
Stephen Batchelor, who—as you can see from the comments thread on the last post—clearly hasn’t lost his touch at provoking angry and immoderate responses from partisans, appeared on the ABC News program “Beliefs” with Dan Harris to discuss his new book, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist. Click the image to view.
Here’s a review of Stephen Batchelor’s Confession of a Buddhist Atheist from The Guardian’s Mark Vernon.
Since publishing his best-selling Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen has become somewhat controversial in Buddhist circles for his Western approach to the Buddha’s teachings. Stephen points out, however, that “the great strength of Buddhism throughout its history is that it has [...]
A monk in Japan allegedly sets his temple on fire to collect on insurance money. Well, Dogen does say that, “A zen master’s life is one continuous mistake.”
Using stronger words than he usually does, the Dalai Lama accused Beijing of persecuting monastics in Chinese-occupied Tibet:
“They are putting the monks and nuns in prison-like conditions, depriving them the opportunity to study and practice in peace,” he said, accusing Chinese of working to “deliberately annihilate Buddhism.”
The Dalai Lama’s remarks reflect frequent complaints by Tibetan [...]
Michael Wenger has practiced Zen since 1972 and he was gracious enough to run a Discussion during Tricycle’s 90-day online ango, The Big Sit.
Now he has a blog with his wonderful ink drawings, called inklings. You won’t be disappointed if you stop by. Below is a drawing of his from a post called “zen what [...]
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