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    The cultural vacuum and variant genes Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 20 Jul 2010
    "I worked in hospices for over seventeen years, and I never heard a dying patient wish she had spent more time at work." - Rodney Smith, Stepping Out of Self-Deception More »
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    Actual Tomatoes Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 17 Jul 2010
    I'm growing tomatoes on my balcony. The latest development is actual tomatoes! This one got redder and was joined by two others. There are several in various stages of green-orangeness. The main problem with the overall plant's growth is lack of superstructure. Next summer I'll get one of those green wire fences to give the vines something to cling to (see the wooden stake, found on the street downstairs, as part of a feeble attempt to provide same.) More »
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    Whole Life Offering Week 2, and Water Links Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 15 Jul 2010
    It's Week 2 of Bonnie Myotai Treace's Tricycle Retreat "Whole Life Offering." Haven't seen her Week 2 video? More »
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    Bonnie Myotai Treace on Generosity and Attention Paid Member

    Posted by Monty McKeever on 12 Jul 2010
    Week 2 of Bonnie Myotai Treace's Tricycle Retreat begins today. In this week's talk she elaborates on last week's theme of generosity and introduces the theme of attention. While stressing the importance of attention in practice she tells a story of a Japanese Emperor that visited a Zen master asking for a great teaching.  In response to the Emperor's request the master painted a calligraphy of the character for 'attention.' The Emperor thanked him but stated he was looking for more of a teaching than one simple character. Upon being asked to elaborate on this teaching, the master's response was simply to once again paint the character on another piece of paper and hand it to him.  This apparently went on for quite some time.  Eventually the Emperor saw that this repetitive action WAS the great teaching—that one must come back to attention again and again and again. More »
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    Green Koans Case 2: Shantideva's Sword Paid Member

    Posted by Philip Ryan on 08 Jul 2010
    Once Shantideva became a bodyguard to King Arivishana. But unlike the other bodyguards, he managed to defeat the king’s enemies using only a wooden sword. “This man is an imposter!” the other bodyguards told the king. “How could he defend Your Highness using only a wooden sword?” Upon discovering that his chief bodyguard was so poorly armed, King Arivishana demanded that Shantideva show him the weapon. “That could prove dangerous,” cautioned Shantideva. More »
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    Termite "Buddha" draws thousands Paid Member

    Posted by Rachel on 07 Jul 2010
    Thousands of Vietnamese have flocked to a rubber farm in the southern Binh Duong province of Vietnam to see the work of a group of very unusual sculptors---termites. More »