August 17, 2010 – 10:18 am
In this guest post, Zen priest, CEO, husband, dad — and author of Less: Accomplishing More By Doing Less – Marc Lesser reminds us of one simple (and yet easy to forget!) fact: that it is up to us to look within ourselves and to bring our work and our lives alive.
Tynette Deveaux, editor of Buddhadharma (also published by the Shambhala Sun Foundation) files a report from our weekend program at Omega Institute.
This past weekend 65 people came together near Rhinebeck, NY — not for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding but rather to attend a workshop called The Wisdom of Anger: What the Buddhists Teach, held at Omega [...]
August 6, 2010 – 12:35 am
In the coming days, I will be discussing some common fallacies about enlightenment, awakening, satori, and such. Others might disagree with my interpretations, and that is fine; “Enlightenment” is interpreted in different ways in different traditions.
But I like to say that the interpretations I shall offer seem of such value, that I will cherish and [...]
We discussed him here on Shambhala SunSpace the other day; now the comedian, a hit on NBC TV’s Last Comic Standing, talks to the Shambhala Sun about comedy and Buddhism — and the unique way he brings them together — in an interview recorded just before the Last Comic Standing finals.
If you’ve only seen [...]
By Lodro Rinzler
Though I have no lover
I too rejoice
The change of clothes
– Uejima Onitsura
All too often I will pick up a gentleman’s magazine and spot a $4000 suit that would look fantastic on me. Billboards, commercials, and magazines throughout the Western world teach us that if you want to look good you need to have [...]
Master Dogen writes the following lines in the Genjokoan:
When dharma does not fill your whole body and mind, you think it is already sufficient. When dharma fills your body and mind, you understand that something is missing. For example, when you sail out in a boat to the middle of an ocean where no land [...]
We have a special rule in our Treeleaf Sangha: Although any topic is always free for civil discussion, and we pull no punches in what we need to say, we are to speak kindly and respectfully to each other. [Click through for more, and to "sit-a-long" with [...]
Now and then on SunSpace we like to share a great post from elsewhere in the blogosphere. Today, we’re please to share this one, from author Marguerite Manteau-Rao and her fine blog, Mind Deep. Enjoy, and comment away.
The Washington Post just published an interesting piece from Chade-Meng Tan, “Hahayana Buddhism,” on the merits of tapping [...]
Since my last post about practicing with a teacher stirred up so much dust, I’ve not done much writing or thinking about it except when people ask me directly. Usually people ask whether a teacher is necessary, or whether a teacher can be harmful, and how to protect themselves from exploitation.
This is an important question, [...]
It is going to be Independence Day in the United States on July 4th. But, from a Buddhist perspective, it is, also, Interdependence Day all the time.
Thich Nhat Hanh has a lovely image for this idea, which he likes to call “Interbeing.”
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One of the most basic of “Buddha Basics” is the Twelve-fold Chain of Dependent Origination, sometimes called the Twelve-fold Chain of Cause & Effect. It describes how our experience of being a separate “self” arises — and with this, as its mirror reflection, the experience of a separate world that is “not our [...]
Three yanas, three vehicles, three ways to sweep the mind.
The Buddhist path can be viewed in a threefold way, three distinct and yet interrelated yanas, or “vehicles”: Theravada, Mahayana, and Tantrayana (or Vajrayana). Three styles of living and dancing with pain. The first one, masculine in essence, is a path of discipline, control. The mind [...]
In this second clip culled from our July 2010 feature interview with Thich Nhat Hanh, the Zen master and mindfulness proponent explains, simply, how to make sense of the various Buddhist traditions and practices available to us today.
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You can hear our previously posted installment of [...]
The Summer 2010 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly (a publication of the Shambhala Sun Foundation) discussed the second-class status of Buddhist nuns and the injustice of denying women full ordination. It’s a subject that has generated a lot of controversy and strong emotion on both sides of the table. So we decided we’d like [...]
The subject came up in our Treeleaf Sangha Forum of tooth-brushing… the Zen Way. As with many daily activities, the simple and ordinary habit of brushing the teeth is just Zen Practice in life. (Think of it as Zazen… with fluoride).
In fact, Master Dogen left richly detailed instructions for dental hygiene right in his [...]
