Pilgrimages to sacred Buddhist sites led by experienced Dharma teachers. Includes daily teachings and group meditation sessions. A local English–speaking guide accompanies and assists.
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Buddha and Brimstone
Parting Words is also available in PDF format. © 2006. Reprinted with permission of the author. Sparkplugcomicbooks.com More » -
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By Love Alone
Beloved Cambodian Buddhist teacher Maha Ghosananda [1929–2007], Supreme Buddhist Patriarch of Cambodia, passed away on March 12 in Northampton, Massachusetts. In the late 1970s he ministered to refugees fleeing the genocidal Killing Fields of the Khmer Rouge regime. He became a prominent peace activist on the world stage, and was a revered meditation teacher. More » -
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By Love Alone
JACK KORNFIELD, a gentle, loving teacher of Buddhism, tells a story of going with Maha Gosananda, a respected Cambodian monk, into the refugee camps... More » -
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In the Outer Diamond Mountains I could not write a poem
In a remote mountain valleya startled pheasant flies off squawkingHey!You think you alone are startled?I was startled too * In the Outer Diamond Mountains I could not write a poemIn the Inner Diamond Mountains I could not write a poemMy empty body was full of truth * To a poor fellow who hasno stone-hard horseno cast-iron cownot even a black pigwhat point would there be in talking about Buddha? More » -
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"Nothing Is Final Forever"
This vignette is excerpted from A Journey with Elsa Cloud, just published by Books & Co./Turtle Point Press. The story opens with a telephone call to the narrator from her estranged daughter in India who, having become a Tibetan Buddhist practitioner, lures her mother to the East with the promise of an audience with the Dalai Lama. What follows is a series of adventures and misadventures, in which travels through India weave around spiritual longing, family history, and the poignant dynamic of the mother-daughter relationship. More »
