#Buddhism Master

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Active vs passive

While reactions are a symptom of passivity, actions, choices, and responses show an active attitude towards what happens in our lives.

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Famous quote by Master Oogway from the movie Kung Fu Panda ☯️

Zen Buddhism at its finest 🪷

[journeytothewestresearch]

Wait, Sun Wukong is a Buddhist monk, Jade Emperor is from Taoist myth then which myth Patriarch Subodhi came from?? Is he from Taoist myth?

Subodhi is based on Subhuti, one of the ten main disciples of the Buddha. Despite Subodhi's image as a Taoist immortal in popular culture, JTTW actually suggests that he is a Buddhist deity. See section 2.3 of my previous article.

[wisdom-and-such]

Poem from the Recorded sayings of Chan master Joshu (Zhàozhōu Cōngshěn) 8th Century, Tang China.

[quotelr]

Once upon a time,there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.

Dick Allen, Zen Master Poems

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Bibliography

All the Buddhist books I have taken notes from, with links if they are available free online. Updated 02/26/24.

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield

Awakening the Buddha Within: Eight Steps to Enlightenment: Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World by Lama Surya Das

Buddha's Brain: the Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love & Wisdom by Rick Hanson, Ph.D., and Richard Mendius, M.D.

Buddhish: A Guide to the 20 Most Important Buddhist Ideas For the Curious and Skeptical by C. Pierce Salguero

Buddhism Without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening by Stephen Batchelor

Dhammapada: The Sayings of the Buddha translated by Thomas Byrom, Shambhala Pocket Classics 1993 (There are A LOT of versions of this online, but not this particular edition)

Enlightenment is an accident: ancient wisdom and simple practices to make you accident prone by Tim Burkett

Happiness is Overrated: Simple Lessons on Finding Meaning in Each Moment by Cuong Lu

How to Raise an Ox: Zen practice as taught in Zen master Dogen's Shobogenzo by Francis Dojun Cook (2002)

How We Live is How We Die by Pema Chödrön

Illumination: a guide to the Buddhist method of no-method by Rebecca Li

Love for Imperfect Things by Haemin Sunim

"Living my vow," by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel in Lion's Roar, March 2021.

Nothing Holy About It: The Zen of Being Just Who You Are by Tim Burkett

Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity by Soto Morinaga

Opening to Oneness: A Practical & Philosophical Guide to the Zen Precepts by Nancy Mujo Baker

The Other Shore by Thich Nhat Hanh

Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chögyam Trungpa

A Spiritual Renegade's Guide to the Good Life by Lama Marut

Start Here Now: An Open-Hearted Guide to the Path and Practice of Meditation by Susan Piver

The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim

The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment by Roshi Philip Kapleau (I read the 25th anniversary edition and this is the 1967 version)

Wake Up: How to Practice Zen Buddhism by Bonnie Myotai Treace

Walking the Way: 81 Zen Encounters with the Tao Te Ching by Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum

The Way of the Bodhisattva by Shantideva, revised translation and new preface by the Padmakara Translation Group (2006) (This is another one that is widely available online in other editions.)

When Things Don't Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times by Haemin Sunim

Zen and the Art of Anything by Hal W. French

Zen Beyond Mindfulness: Using Buddhist and Modern Psychology for Transformational Practice by Jules Shuzen Harris

Zen Flesh, Zen Bones by Paul Reps

Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki (Link goes to a book that is listed as the 2006 ed but it looks identical to my 2002 edition)

[airenyah]

now that i've turned thai drama into my bachelor thesis, the only question left is: how to turn thai drama into my master's thesis

[look-into-our-heart]

Strive to be Better

The Buddha had always warned us about desire.  When desire stems from greed, seeking after insatiable desire will lead to misery.  Yet, desire can be a driving force for change when it is channeled in the right direction.

In the villages that Tzu Chi volunteers have been to in the homeland of the Buddha, the region where the Buddha had traveled in spreading his teachings in ancient India, which, in the present time, is a region around the border of Nepal and India, Tzu Chi volunteers see many people living in poverty.  Dharma Master Cheng Yen observes that the poor people there now live very much like how the people lived back in the Buddha’s time, in poverty and in suffering.  They are all right with sitting on dirt floor and living in mud houses.  They are content with just making enough money to get by in life.  They simply accept their life.  Master praises them for living a simple life without desires.  However, having no desire, they lack goals, motivation, and action to improve their life.  As a result, for generation after generation, the fate of the people there has been living a life of poverty.

Tzu Chi volunteers have desires.  Desire is something that we seek and what we want to do.  Seeing the suffering of people in Nepal and India, Master aspires to transform their life.  Like Master, Tzu Chi volunteers’ desire is also to transform the life of people in suffering.  When our desire is channeled in the right direction, as in the desire to serve the world, our desire can bring about hope.

Through Tzu Chi’s education project, housing project, charity and medical work, vocational training, etc. Tzu Chi volunteers have begun to help people in Nepal and India improve their life.  They use the Buddha’s teachings to guide the people there in the right direction and motivate them to strive for a better life.  This work is still in progress.  With Tzu Chi volunteers’ strength and efforts, in time, Master hopes to see the fruits of our efforts, that people’s life can truly be transformed with improved livelihood, housing, and education.

[aerial-jace]

I was just given the opportunity to reaffirm my apostasy right on Good Friday and I'm relishing it.

[amazonsart]

Keep Your Balance

[buddhabeings]

Whatever problems there are in the world, Are created by the afflictions in our own minds. A mistaken attitude is a cause for the kleshas (mental states that cloud the mind and manifest in negative karmas), Yet the pattern of our thoughts can be refined. As we have seen, the very root of samsara is the concept of self and our habit of clinging to our identification with an “ego.”

~ Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

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Book of the Day - Mind Beyond Death

Today’s Book of the Day is Mind Beyond Death, written by Dzogchen Ponlop in 2007 and published by Snow Lion. Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche is a prominent Tibetan Buddhist teacher and scholar, and a meditation master. He is an abbot of Dzogchen Monastery, founder and spiritual director of Nalandabodhi, and founder of Nītārtha Institute for Higher Buddhist Studies. He is one of the highest tülkus in…

[buddhismnow]

The Grandmotherly Kindness of the Zen Masters, Diana St Ruth

The Grandmotherly Kindness of the Zen Masters, by Diana St Ruth http://wp.me/pFy3u-1x4

To our western ears, Zen can often sound austere, unkind, even brutal and cruel. We hear about the rejections at the monastery gate, the hardships, humiliations and rough treatment its adherents are sometimes subjected to, and maybe we’re inclined to think it’s all a bit much for grown up people. However, when things are taken out of context—historically, spiritually, and culturally—they can so…

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'Yi' (20 × 30 cm, inkpen on 135 gms paper)

[wisdom-and-such]

“Mountains and waters right now are the manifestation of the ancient buddha way. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness. Because mountains and waters have been active since before the Empty Eon, they are alive in this moment. Because they have been the self since before form arose, they are emancipation-realization”. — The Record of Eihei Dogen

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Massed Prayer for Florian and Juliana go to Pasio