August 11, 2010 – 7:54 am
The blog of the late Robert Aitken Roshi has now announced an August 22 memorial service in Honolulu. Click here for details.
And Roshi’s Diamond Sangha has now released an official obituary. It follows here.
Robert Aitken Roshi (1917-2010)
Aitken Gyoun Roshi, beloved teacher and founder of the Diamond Sangha, died August 5 in Honolulu at the age of [...]
Following on her previous updates (see here and here), Michele Martin brings us all up to speed:
It has been over a month since the earthquake in Tibet that devastated Thrangu Monastery. Ten of Thrangu Rinpoche’s senior monks have had the opportunity to travel to Tibet, where they gave out aid to the survivors, [...]
By Michele Martin
As the days pass, information from Tibet becomes more clear and detailed: twenty-three monks were killed at Thrangu Monastery (see our previous post here); nine with serious injuries are in the hospital; around forty have a range of injuries that are being treated on site as best as possible. Structural damage [...]
April 19, 2010 – 12:09 pm
A guest post by Michele Martin
Thrangu Monastery in Tibet was near the epicenter of the devastating quake of April 14. It was almost completely destroyed and many of the monks were killed or are missing. Over many years, the monastery had been rebuilt through the hard work of the monks and local people. They [...]
April 18, 2010 – 11:14 am
With the earth functioning for me as an object on which to meditate, or at least as a source of teachings that resonate with Buddhadharma, doubt is the hindrance that shakes my ability to use earthdharma to cultivate equanimity in light of the April 13 earthquake in Qinghai Province, China. Scientific understanding of earth processes [...]
April 17th update: The Yushu earthquake death toll has risen to 1100. [Photos here, via the Boston Globe and AP.] The Dalai Lama is hoping to get to Tibet. And meanwhile, the Karmapa has spoken. Via the Kagyu Office:
“I was extremely saddened to hear of the catastrophic loss of human life and the severe [...]
April 4th is here. On this day in 1987 Chogyam Trungpa passed into nirvana. (For those not familiar with this expression, it is the day he died.) It is a time when his students and others affected by him all around the world pay special homage to his life and teachings. The Venerable Chogyam Trungpa [...]
March 29, 2010 – 12:52 pm
Our Spotlight pages — sometimes called “Special Sections” (though, no longer) — have been updated to include material related to our May 2010 issue, in addition to other articles on just about every other subject “under the Sun.”
New collections of material include: Beginner’s Mind: Basics of Buddhism and Meditation; Helping Tibet: An Online Resource Guide; [...]
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A guest post by Linda Lewis
How can we as meditators turn tragic events — such as the earthquakes in Haiti, the more recent one in Chile, or the floods that have recently drowned so many in Western Europe — into opportunities to open more rather than to close, to give rather than to grasp, to [...]
Via a friend from the worldwide Shambhala Sangha comes a moving first-person account of the recent events in Chile.
February 27, 2010 – 3:14 pm
In light of the news of the magnitude 8.8 earthquake in Chile — and the possible devastation still to come from tsunamis and aftershocks — we again present Judy Lief’s instructions for tonglen, a practice that can be of help at a time of seeming helplessness.
February 10, 2010 – 10:28 am
“There’s another disaster quickly uncoiling far, far away from Haiti” writes guest blogger Konchog Norbu. “It has no celebrity spokespeople, no mainstream news coverage, no Super Bowl mentions. But tens of thousands of people, and millions of animals, are right now in a daily struggle between life and death, and many have already lost. I’m [...]
February 4, 2010 – 7:24 am
By Jill S. Schneiderman
I just finished reading Nando Parrado’s account of his 72-day ordeal of pain and suffering in the South American cordillera, Miracle in the Andes (2006). It’s an extraordinary testimony of his survival, along with 15 out of 45 people, most of them rugby teammates, after their privately chartered airplane crashes into the [...]
January 13, 2010 – 5:03 pm
By Jill S. Schneiderman
Department of Earth Science and Geography, Vassar College
“Awareness of impermanence is encouraged, so that when it is coupled with our appreciation of the enormous potential of our human existence, it will give us a sense of urgency that I must use every precious moment.“–The 14th Dalai Lama.
I awoke this morning from my [...]
January 13, 2010 – 12:18 pm
There was, of course, a devastating earthquake in Haiti yesterday — great human suffering. So much sadness in this world… war and violence, poverty, hunger, disease.
Yet, in our Shikantaza Zazen, we are to instructed to sit with life without thinking “good” or “bad,” dropping all resistance and judgments about how things are, not wishing that [...]
