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2016-12-31
Finally, Finally 2016 Ends!
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2016-12-31
Huston Smith & His Lovely Book: A Meditation on a Naturalistic Perennialism
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2016-12-30
Enter Ramana Maharshi
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2016-12-29
Zen in the Natural World: A Meditation on Awakening After Modernity
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2016-12-28
Stopping that distant temple bell: a Meditation on a traditional Zen Koan
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2016-12-27
Knowing Good and Evil: Or, Finding Zen Koans in the Bible
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2016-12-26
Looking at Alternative Christianities: Recalling Jesus' brother, James
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2016-12-25
The Eternal Dance Begins: Or, Wishing You all a Very Charles Dickens' Christmas
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2016-12-24
A Unitarian Buddhist Meditation on Christmas
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2016-12-24
False: Trump did not say he'd turn to Dalai Lama and Thich Nhat Hanh instead of the Pope
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2016-12-23
The First Nidana - A Christmas Song for Buddhists
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2016-12-23
A Buddhist Christmas
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2016-12-23
Spiritual Life takes Courage, and part of that is asking for help
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2016-12-22
Reading Zen: Some Books of Relevance to a Student of Zen Meditation & Koan Introspection
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2016-12-21
Ikkyu Burned His Enlightenment Certificate
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2016-12-21
Noticing the Christian Saint of Doubt, and Recalling Zen's Way of Doubt, Faith, and Energy
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2016-12-20
Thinking of Doctors Without Borders on the Forty-Fifth Anniversary of their Founding
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2016-12-19
We Went to See Rogue One
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2016-12-18
The True Bridge? Studying and Teaching Zen
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2016-12-18
My Favorite Zen Blogs
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2016-12-17
Santa & God: A Rationalist Meditation for the Christmas Holiday
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2016-12-16
Some Favorite Spiritual Songs for the Christmas Season
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2016-12-15
News Getting You Down? Don't Check Out! Just Witnessing Helps
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2016-12-15
Martin Scorsese's Silence: a Review
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2016-12-14
It's International Celebrate a Monkey Day!
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2016-12-12
Manchester by the Sea: Sad, Beautiful, Recommended
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2016-12-11
Two Errors on the Zen Way
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2016-12-10
My Teacher: Thomas Merton
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2016-12-10
Thich Nhat Hanh travels to Thailand "to be near his homeland"
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2016-12-09
Finding Forgiveness During Challenging Times
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2016-12-09
thinking of our mother...
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2016-12-08
The World Honored One Sees the Morning Star, And the World Awakens
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2016-12-07
The Road is All: Remembering Willa Cather
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2016-12-06
Enter Evelyn Underhill, Who Would Point to the Moon for Western Seekers
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2016-12-05
The Nature of Things: A Small Meditation on Reason and Wisdom in Religion
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2016-12-04
Zen Becoming Western: A Reflection on Boundless Way Zen on the Occasion of Dr James Cordova's Dharma Transmission
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2016-12-03
Dalai Lama tops Feedspot's 50 Best Buddhist Blogs on the Planet
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2016-12-02
Gone Sitting
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2016-12-02
Calming Your Mind Buddhist-Style - A 30-Second Method for Non-Buddhists and Buddhists Alike
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2016-12-01
Happy Birthday, Rex Stout (And, Okay, Nero Wolfe)!
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2016-11-30
We Certainly Could Use a Lot More Like Him Today
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2016-11-30
The Buddhist Parable of the Mustard Seed: Grief, Loss, and Heartbreak
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2016-11-29
On the Road Again
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2016-11-28
Arrival: The Thinking Person's Science Fiction
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2016-11-27
Dreaming of the Luminous Religion: a Buddhist Christianity that Could have Been
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2016-11-26
They Called Him Bat, Bat Masterson
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2016-11-26
Recalling Mary Edwards Walker, the Only Woman to Be Awarded the Medal of Honor
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2016-11-24
The Buddha Gives Us Some Advice About Speaking With Others
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2016-11-23
Thich Nhat Hanh disciple offers Buddhist Wisdom for a World Gripped by Fear
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2016-11-23
Noticing the Masks Coming On, Going Off
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2016-11-22
The Wise Use of Anger - A Lesson for (Us) Namby-Pamby Liberals
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2016-11-22
The Normalizing of Donald Trump's Presidency
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2016-11-21
Toward a Buddhist Declaration of Interdependence
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2016-11-20
A SONG OF INTERDEPENDENCE: The Buddhist & Unitarian Universalist Encounter & What It Can Mean for Us All
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2016-11-19
Just a Brief Pause in the Storm: Thinking of Tommy Dorsey
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2016-11-18
Tibetan Buddhist immigrant told: 'get the f--- out of my country'
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2016-11-18
I Do Wish Mark Twain Were Around to Comment
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2016-11-17
The World Is On Fire: How One Zen Teacher Will Meet Our Current Political Situation
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2016-11-16
Appropriate Speech When Talking Politics: the Buddha's Five Conditions
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2016-11-16
In Quest of Soul Mountain
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2016-11-15
Leonard Cohen's Last Interview
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2016-11-15
A Work in Progress. Meditating on the Transient and Permanent in Religions
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2016-11-13
WHAT NEXT? A Meditation on the Election of Donald J Trump as President of the United States of America
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2016-11-12
Facing Election Results with Buddhist Practices of Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity
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2016-11-12
Even What We Think Matters. A Zen Teacher Reflects on the American Presidential Election
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2016-11-12
Finding Myself Thinking About Revolutions
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2016-11-11
The Anthem that Was and Is Leonard Cohen
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2016-11-11
We are what we pretend to be
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2016-11-11
Day 1 after the election, solidarity and kindness
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2016-11-10
The Republic of Dreams Stands Strong: A Message to the World
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2016-11-09
Buddhist Responses to the American Presidential Election
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2016-11-09
Five Things To Do Now That Trump Has Been Elected
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2016-11-08
Nate Silver's Predictions, Live Results Coverage, and Mindfulness Kittens
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2016-11-08
She Roars: Women and Men in Rochester, New York, are putting their "I Voted" Stickers on Susan B Anthony's Grave
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2016-11-07
Buddhism and Politics: Applying the First Precept
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2016-11-07
What do you mean Joni Mitchell is Seventy-Two?
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2016-11-06
Facing the Election with Buddhist Practices of Love, Compassion, Sympathetic Joy and Equanimity
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2016-11-06
Yunmen's Dried Shit Stick: A Zen Meditation
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2016-11-05
Susan Casts a Vote
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2016-11-04
Slavoj Žižek would vote for Trump
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2016-11-04
American Buddhist political survey continues (a sneak peek)
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2016-11-04
A Buddhist pause in the election madness: A Quick Guide to Loving-Kindness Meditation
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2016-11-03
A Feast for Richard Hooker
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2016-11-02
Wishing K. D. Lang a Wondrous Happy Fifty-Fifth!
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2016-11-01
Politics and the Buddhist Precept "Do Not Speak Dishonestly"
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2016-11-01
Shakespeare's Great Storm Begins
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2016-11-01
Buddhism and American Politics, a final reader survey
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2016-10-31
A Buddhist Prospective US Army Chaplain Candidate on the election
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2016-10-31
We went to see Inferno. We wanted mindless popcorn munching fun. We were not disappointed
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2016-10-31
Oh Dear! It's Halloween...
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2016-10-30
The Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness: 8 Helpful Tips
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2016-10-30
What a Piece of Work is a Man: A Small Reflection on What Human Herd Behavior Might Mean
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2016-10-29
The Messiah Enters Babylon
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2016-10-28
On Finding Your Sacred Text
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2016-10-28
Dharma and Relationships in Bhutan: A Brief and Very Partial Trip Review
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2016-10-27
Dear Karma, I Have a List of People You Missed
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2016-10-27
One Could Say Today is the Day the Devil Took Over Christianity
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2016-10-26
4 Myths about Meditation
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2016-10-26
The Death Penalty on Trial: a Meditation
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2016-10-25
60 Years of the Indian Buddhist Revival
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2016-10-25
A Brief Meditation on that Photograph of Susan B Anthony's Gravestone
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2016-10-24
Denial: A Talky Movie About Important Things: I loved It
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2016-10-23
Mysterious Reality: A Naturalistic Buddhist Meditation
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2016-10-23
Enter Weird Al
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2016-10-22
Wishing the World a Happy Six Thousand & Twentieth Birthday! Along with a tip of the Hat to Not Knowing
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2016-10-21
With 108 Years since their last title, the Cubs become Buddhism's team
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2016-10-21
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, a Stately pleasure-dome decree...
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2016-10-20
What is Attention? Can Mindfulness Help? See "The Science of Meditation" Summit
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2016-10-20
Telling Religious Stories: Fingers Pointing to the Moon
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2016-10-18
Why it’s important never to be too attached to Buddhism
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2016-10-18
The Great Suzuki
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2016-10-17
False: The Dalai Lama did *not* compare Donald Trump to Hitler
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2016-10-17
Zen Chants in the West: Rilke's Ninth Elegy
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2016-10-16
Encountering Zen's Precepts as Koans
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2016-10-15
Recalling Teresa
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2016-10-14
Ganesh in a Liquor Store
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2016-10-14
William Takes a Throne
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2016-10-14
Leonard Cohen Narrates the Tibetan Book of the Dead
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2016-10-13
The Great Herblock
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2016-10-13
"Qualifications, policies, intelligence, and pant suits": Buddhist Political Preferences (Reader poll, October reporting)
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2016-10-13
Thich Nhat Hanh 90th birthday photo
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2016-10-12
The Wickedest Man in the World is Born
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2016-10-11
The Day the Devil Peed on the Blackberries
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2016-10-10
The Self, Like a Cloud
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2016-10-10
A Reflection on Leonard Cohen: Markers on a Spiritual Path
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2016-10-09
The Buddha intervenes in a Political Dispute thinking "it is my duty..."
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2016-10-09
A Feast for Dionysius, Bard of the Great Mystery
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2016-10-08
Bhutan and the Hereandnow
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2016-10-08
Defeating a Demagogue: Donald Trump, Stephen Colbert, and some Buddhist thought on Politics
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2016-10-08
The Zen Project in North America: A Small Progress Report
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2016-10-07
King’s College London - Buddhist Studies Research Seminars
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2016-10-07
An Artist is Born: Recalling Archibald Motley
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2016-10-07
A Very Small Eulogy for an Archbishop
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2016-10-06
The Project of Zen is Waking Up
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2016-10-06
The World Is Burning and Yet I Garden: Reflections after a Session on Climate Change at the Soto Zen Buddhist Association Conference
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2016-10-05
My Quest for Unbiased News: Or, More Notes on the Fool's Errand
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2016-10-04
Zen & the Way: Observations On the Way from an American Zen Priest
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2016-10-04
Atheist engagement with Buddhism: denying (or redefining) awakening
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2016-10-03
Five Styles for Authorizing Soto Zen Priests in North America
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2016-10-03
Humans and Bonobos: Violence and a Thyroid Hormone
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2016-10-02
The 7th Biennial Gathering of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association
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2016-10-01
Greed and Delusion in Wells Fargo. Or "In Praise of the Ethical Man"
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2016-10-01
Once Upon a Time There Was a Queen Named Love
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2016-09-30
Buddhist Politics: A Reader Survey (October)
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2016-09-30
Clark Strand's Green Koans
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2016-09-30
Some Zen Teachings According to Jesus
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2016-09-29
Bishop Akiba's Dream: And Visions of Zen in North America
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2016-09-28
Shunryu Suzuki on Breathing
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2016-09-27
Went to See Hell or High Water. Liked it. Quite a bit.
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2016-09-26
The Beatles Take Their Walk Across Abbey Road, and Then, Well, Then An Era is Over
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2016-09-25
The Very Short Sutra on the Meeting of the Buddha and the Goddess
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2016-09-24
Want to Know What the Way Looks Like? Here a Christian translates a Daoist Who Tells Us In a Little Story He Made Up
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2016-09-23
Donald Trump technically owes Barack Obama a $5 million donation, Dalai Lama weighs in Trump's hair and "little mouth"
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2016-09-22
“Our Buddhist University and the Role of Intellectualism in our Studies” a Call for Papers
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2016-09-22
A Sufi Spills the Beans on What a Zen Koan Is
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2016-09-21
The Life of an Artist: Recalling John Wesley Hardrick
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2016-09-21
A Hobbit is Born, And the Middle Earth Will Never Be the Same
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2016-09-20
Two Glorious Old Codgers Debate the Existence of God
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2016-09-19
On Going to See Map Against the World
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2016-09-19
Dalai Lama: There is no "Muslim Terrorist" or "Buddhist Terrorist"
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2016-09-18
GETTING TO KNOW YOU A Meditation on Spiritual Community
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2016-09-17
A Feast for the Sibyl of the Rhine
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2016-09-17
Venerable Dr. Yifa on stilling the mind with meditation
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2016-09-16
Step One - Commit to Stillness, Don’t React
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2016-09-16
King of the Blues
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2016-09-15
Saicho and the Beginnings of Japan's Bodhisattva Ordination System
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2016-09-13
Buddhist Political Preferences (Reader poll, September reporting)
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2016-09-13
Eat Your Chocolate Proudly: A Smallest Meditation on International Chocolate Day
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2016-09-12
Let Go or Be Dragged
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2016-09-11
My Lesson from Nine Eleven
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2016-09-10
Happy Birthday, Mary Oliver! Oh. And. Thank You!
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2016-09-09
A Little on What Science Is, and With That a Tad on What Science Is Not
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2016-09-09
Recalling Constance & Her Companions & the Madam
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2016-09-08
Secrets of the Universe Revealed
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2016-09-08
From US Marine to Zen Monk (Video)
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2016-09-08
A Feast for Mary
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2016-09-07
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: A Way of Life
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2016-09-06
What Zen “Acceptance” and “Non-Attachment” Really Are
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2016-09-06
Reading Awake at the Bedside, Finding Life and Death Entangled Beautifully
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2016-09-05
A Tibetan Buddhist Nun teaches JOY instead of Willpower, Ego, and Guilt
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2016-09-05
Ten Years of Monkey Mind: Reflections on a Blogging Life
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2016-09-05
Recalling Filipino Unitarian Bishop Gregorio Aglipay
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2016-09-05
Buddhist Politics: A Reader Survey (September)
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2016-09-04
A STORY OF EGYPT A Meditation on Labor Day, Black Lives Matter, & the Great Work of Our Lives
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2016-09-03
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
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2016-09-02
Fred Kellerman, The Last of the Weavers Dies
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2016-09-02
Crime Fiction in Old China
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2016-09-02
2 More Tibetan Nuns commit suicide as China destroys vast Buddhist religious city
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2016-09-01
How to Open Your Eyes but Not Lose Heart
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2016-09-01
Martha Dies, And With Her a Species Passes from the Earth
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2016-08-31
Thinking of Books That Helped Me on My Spiritual Path
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2016-08-30
The Zen of Attitude Adjustment, Or, Let the Sweet Two by Four of Life Draw You Into the Moment
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2016-08-29
Mr Natural's 719th Meditation
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2016-08-29
Southside With You, A Small, Delightful Film
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2016-08-29
SIT: A Short Film by Yoko Okumura
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2016-08-28
Recalling Abba Moses the Black Together With A Small Meditation on the Religions We Choose
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2016-08-27
Mindful education - teaching meditation to kids via Cartoon Network's "Steven Universe"
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2016-08-27
Free Buddhist audiobook: Requisites of Enlightenment by Ledi Sayadaw (via Pariyatti Publishing)
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2016-08-26
Christopher Isherwood Takes His Turn on the Great Stage
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2016-08-25
The Scandalous Life of Lady Jane Digby. Apparently Bad Girls Do Go Everywhere.
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2016-08-25
China gives Tibetans a search engine, immediately censors the Dalai Lama
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2016-08-24
Reading Stephen Batchelor's After Buddhism
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2016-08-23
In Japanese "Most Handsome Monk Contest", a female meditation teacher wins
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2016-08-23
Go See Kubo & the Two Strings: You Don't Need to Read Any More Than That
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2016-08-23
Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche on the "outdated" Tulku system in Tibetan Buddhism
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2016-08-22
Enter Krazy Kat! And, With that, the Briefest Meditation on Race in America
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2016-08-22
Stages in the Bodhisattva's Journey
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2016-08-21
The Zen of Seeing: A Dozen Random Observations About the Way Things Are
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2016-08-20
Cross Cultural Talking About Zen: Living Life Within the Margins
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2016-08-19
Slackin' Off in the Summertime: Cycles of Spiritual Practice
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2016-08-19
Thank You, Arthur Waley!
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2016-08-18
The Nineteenth Amendment is Ratified
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2016-08-17
The Dalai Lama's Doctor - Buddhist advice on Forgiveness
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2016-08-17
How to Get Over Yourself: Five Pointers from the Zen Tradition for a Whole Life
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2016-08-17
Cesare & All the Beautiful People
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2016-08-16
THIRTY-THREE BOOKS ON ZEN & BUDDHISM
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2016-08-15
Mindfulness – not just a technique!
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2016-08-15
Florence Foster Jenkins Is Pitch Perfect
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2016-08-15
For the love of running and mindfulness (my ON BEING interview)
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2016-08-14
Ernest Everett Just: Brilliant Mind, Mediocre World
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2016-08-14
A Buddhist God? Or, A Verse in the Great Song?
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2016-08-13
When Laurel Ulrich said "Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History," Was She Thinking of Lucy Stone?
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2016-08-12
Beyond Mindfulness: The Radical Practice of Unified Presence
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2016-08-12
Mr Singer's Amazing Sewing Machine
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2016-08-12
Tourists: Buddha Tattoos are Taboo; as are See-Through dresses at Buddhist holy sites
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2016-08-11
On Hitting a Plateau. The Ongoing Meditations of a Weight Watcher
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2016-08-11
The Naturalistic Spirituality of Colonel Robert Ingersoll
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2016-08-10
Layman Pang Is Corrected: A Zen Encounter
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2016-08-09
UU Church of Long Beach Welcomes Buddhist Priest as Community Minister
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2016-08-09
Enter Betty Boop, With Some Kind of Cool Extras
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2016-08-09
Tibetan Nun commits suicide as China destroys vast Buddhist religious city
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2016-08-08
7 characteristics of Flow States & how Mindfulness brings us there
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2016-08-08
Those Three Things We Are Born To
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2016-08-08
Advice from Various Old Guys
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2016-08-08
Buddhist Political Preferences (Reader poll, July-Aug reporting)
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2016-08-07
The Amazing Randi Struts Onto the Stage
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2016-08-06
I Still Love Lucy
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2016-08-05
Banging on the Doors of Heaven: A Brief Meditation on Spiritual Practices
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2016-08-04
Major Sites of the Indus Valley (aka Sarasvati or Harappa) Civilization
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2016-08-04
Break Out the Champagne
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2016-08-03
Krishnamurti Resigns as Messiah
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2016-08-02
Japanese Religion: Buddhism and Shintoism
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2016-08-02
Star Trek Beyond: The Franchise Reboot Continues Where A Fair Number Have Gone Before, But It's Still Fun
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2016-08-01
Recalling the Zen of Master Seungsahn
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2016-07-31
The Day Daniel Defoe Got His Justice
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2016-07-30
Thinking of Marianne Ihlen & Leonard Cohen
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2016-07-29
It's OK When Things Suck
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2016-07-29
I Used to be Really Important: A Zen Meditation
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2016-07-28
Once it Tastes Blood, Madam Guillotine Always Wants More
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2016-07-27
And Since the Whole Thing's Imagined Anyhow
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2016-07-26
The Day the Holy Spirit Came to the Unitarian Universalists
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2016-07-25
john a powell on the Human Journey
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2016-07-23
July Buddhist Political Affiliations and the 2016 US Presidential Race (Reader Poll)
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2016-07-23
Jah! Rastafari! A Song of Redemption
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2016-07-22
The Fallacy “It’s All In Your Mind”: Why What We Do Matters
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2016-07-22
I Am Your Voice. I Alone Can Fix This. Sure Looks Like Someone is Running for Dictator
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2016-07-21
A Feast for Carlos: Recalling Independent Catholic Archbishop Carlos Duarte Costa
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2016-07-20
And the Freeway Comes to California
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2016-07-19
Not One. Not Two. The Zen of Sister Elaine
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2016-07-18
Lotus
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2016-07-18
Contrary to What You May Have Heard, the New Ghostbusters is No Bust: Great Summer Entertainment
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2016-07-17
The Vermillion Thread, Through a Glass Darkly, & Amazing Grace: A Small Pointer on Zen Practice
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2016-07-15
Don’t Think You Understand
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2016-07-15
Tibetan Buddhist nuns make history with Geshema Degrees (Doctorates in Buddhist Philosophy)
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2016-07-15
Mr Emerson Starts a Revolution
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2016-07-14
Some Prophets Sing
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2016-07-14
It's Looking More and More Like God's Away on Business
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2016-07-13
Margaret Murray, the Mother of Modern Wicca
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2016-07-12
Okay, Just a Little Sympathy for the Devil
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2016-07-12
The Day Alexander Hamilton Died
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2016-07-11
Watching the Hunt for the Wilderpeople
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2016-07-11
Zheng He Sails the Ocean Blue
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2016-07-10
My Faithless Heart's Prayer
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2016-07-10
'Tis Tesla's Day! May the (Alternating) Current Be With You!
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2016-07-09
Alex Chrum's List of Eight Unbiased News Sources
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2016-07-08
Recalling the Frontier Zen of Philip Kapleau and the Rochester Zen Center
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2016-07-08
Raffi Sings a Song
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2016-07-07
What in the Hell Is Happening in Our Country?
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2016-07-07
On Not Knowing as a Subversive Act
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2016-07-07
Robert Heinlein Turns One Hundred and Nine!
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2016-07-06
Wishing a Happy Eighty-First Birthday to His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama
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2016-07-06
Oh, My! There's Actually a National Fried Chicken Day...
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2016-07-06
The Dalai Lama turns 81
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2016-07-05
And then there was Spam
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2016-07-04
One and Many: A Small Meditation for the 4th of July
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2016-07-04
“Health” in the Buddhism and Science Dialogue
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2016-07-03
The Yankee Doodle Dandy is Born
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2016-07-02
Thinking of Thomas Cranmer, One Who Loved Too Much
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2016-07-02
Did You Know this is World UFO Day?
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2016-07-01
10 Ways to Energize Your Meditation
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2016-06-30
Why a Little Biblical Literacy Might be a Good Thing
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2016-06-29
Finding Your Sacred Book
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2016-06-29
Buddhist Political Affiliations and the 2016 US Presidential Race (Reader Poll)
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2016-06-28
Such is Life: Ned Kelly is Shot & Arrested
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2016-06-27
Enlightenment Is Real
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2016-06-27
Independence Day: Resurgence: Bad Movie. Liked It.
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2016-06-26
En the Ascetic is Banished
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2016-06-24
TAPROOTS FOR A NEW UNIVERSALISM Zen Buddhism & Unitarian Universalism, Encounter, Conflict, New Visions
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2016-06-23
Love: A Zen Meditation
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2016-06-22
The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered: Or, the Perfect Curse for an Author
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2016-06-22
And Yet it Moves: the Poetry of Reality
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2016-06-21
Luke Wilson gives Jimmy Fallon the Shambhala pocket Chögyam Trungpa
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2016-06-21
3 shirts, 4 pairs of pants, 150 total belongings: inspired by Zen philosophy
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2016-06-21
Returning, or "5 meditations on the desert"
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2016-06-21
Reinhold Niebuhr Steps onto the Stage
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2016-06-20
Moving
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2016-06-20
Moving to Omaha to Lead the Nebraska Zen Center
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2016-06-20
Fascism as Farce: A Small Meditation on Donald Trump & a Problem for the American People
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2016-06-19
President Obama on Juneteenth
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2016-06-19
Let's Get this Straight. One More Time. Jesus Never Went to Tibet. Sorry, Would Have Been Great. But, He didn't.
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2016-06-18
Zen in the Christian Desert, Finding that Cloud of Not Knowing in Our Backyard
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2016-06-17
Hurray! It's International Eat a Chocolate Chip Cookie Day!
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2016-06-17
James Weldon Johnson Lifts His Voice
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2016-06-16
Soto Zen Buddhist Association Statement on the Orlando Tragedy
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2016-06-15
A Feast for Evelyn
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2016-06-14
Loss and the Spiritual Path
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2016-06-14
Censorship, Imagined, Ambiguous, & Real
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2016-06-13
I Went to See the Lobster. Didn't Have a Great Time
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2016-06-12
Orlando: A Small Meditation
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2016-06-12
Anne is Given a Diary
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2016-06-11
Love & Friendship: A Small Appreciation of Jane Austen's Wicked Lady Susan Brought to the Screen
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2016-06-11
That Time When We All Learned About the Trojan Horse
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2016-06-11
Unplugging, or "practicing mindfulness in the desert"
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2016-06-10
A glimpse of Buddhism in Obama's endorsement of Hillary Clinton
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2016-06-10
Faustus Socinus Gets His Church & With that the Seeds of a Rationalist Christianity Are Cast Upon Fertile Ground
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2016-06-10
A Dream Over That Rainbow
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2016-06-09
Happy birthday to the Book of Common Prayer!
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2016-06-09
Getting Real: A Zen Meditation on Despair & Purpose
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2016-06-08
The Gospel of Unitarian Universalism for Contemporary Culture
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2016-06-08
Marking Malcolm Boyd's Birthday
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2016-06-08
A politics of fear, not hope
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2016-06-07
Slipping Support for Sanders, Buddhists turn to Trump, Stein, and Johnson in latest reader poll
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2016-06-07
A Surreal Sanctuary From a Broken World: Clifton's Cafeteria in L.A.
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2016-06-06
Seventy-two Years Ago, Drowning in Blood, the World Changes
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2016-06-05
Didn't You Used to Be a Minister? A Musing on the Ordained Life
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2016-06-04
Zen's Invitation: Doushuai's Three Barriers
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2016-06-03
Self as Both Real and Not-Real - The Teaching of the Five Skandhas
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2016-06-03
Buddhist Political Preferences Poll Extended to June 5
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2016-06-03
Daowu's Condolences: Riffing on a Zen Koan on Life and Death
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2016-06-02
Shopping for a Spiritual Practice? Here's One
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2016-06-01
Like Sand Slipping Through Spread Fingers
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2016-05-31
Zen Buddhist teacher Dogen: "The Greatest Philosopher You've Never Heard Of"
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2016-05-31
Words from a Western Dharma Master
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2016-05-31
Hot Dogs! Hot Dogs! And from there on, Mickey Mouse Never Shuts Up...
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2016-05-30
Benny Turns One Hundred, Seven, and Remains as Cool as Ever
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2016-05-30
Joan Goes to the Stake
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2016-05-29
CLOUDS OF WITNESSES A Memorial Day Meditation on Abraham Lincoln, the American Republic, and the Great Dream of Human Possibility
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2016-05-28
Buddhist Political Affiliations and the 2016 US Presidential Race (Reader Poll)
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2016-05-28
Happy birthday, James Bond! Hmm. I Mean Happy Birthday, Ian Fleming!
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2016-05-27
The Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness: 8 Helpful Tips
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2016-05-27
Happy Birthday, Vincent Price! And, at No Extra Charge: He Reads Poe's the Raven
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2016-05-26
DON'T BE A JERK A Review of Brad Warner's Paraphrase & Commentary of Eihei Dogen
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2016-05-25
When Worlds Collide: A Meditation on Religion and After Religion as we Know It
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2016-05-25
On Modern Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Social Ethics
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2016-05-24
Like A Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan Turns Seventy-Five
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2016-05-23
A Feast for the Astronomers
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2016-05-23
Zen and the Five Hindrances
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2016-05-23
In Case You're Wondering. The Money Monster is No Big Short.
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2016-05-22
It was on This Day that the Unitarian Hindu Reformer Rammohan Roy was Born
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2016-05-21
No, I Ain't Misbehavin'
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2016-05-20
It's On This Day in 325 that Constantine Opens His Council and Christianity Begins to Be Defined
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2016-05-19
Ruben Habito, Christian Zen Master
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2016-05-18
On Some Criticisms of Modern Mindfulness
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2016-05-18
You Complain that Buddha is Hard to Find
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2016-05-17
Getting Buddhist Philosophy (and other non-Western thought) into the academy
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2016-05-17
Recalling Marriage Equality Coming to Massachusetts
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2016-05-16
Karma, Rebirth, & Seeking the Great Healing
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2016-05-15
Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche gives Morgan Freeman the Buddhist "shortcut" teachings for happiness
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2016-05-15
THE LIFE OF A WILD FOX: A Zen Koan for Our Times
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2016-05-13
From Delusion to Illusion: The Freedom of Disbelief
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2016-05-13
Buddha from Alabama: A Brief Recalling of Roshi Blanche Hartman
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2016-05-12
Just Read that Article on Texas Seceding, and It Sparked a Whole Cascade of Thoughts
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2016-05-12
A Feast for Gregory Dix, and Some Thoughts on Liturgy
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2016-05-11
Thinking of the Diamond Sutra, the Oldest Printed Book
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2016-05-10
A Small Mind Bubble About a Naturalistic Perennialism
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2016-05-09
In latest self-selected survey, Buddhists still love Bernie Sanders, favor Hillary Clinton even less than 3 months ago
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2016-05-09
Mr Punch Wields his Stick: And Once Again Trickster Presents an Unsettling Lesson
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2016-05-08
A MOTHERING SPIRIT: A Mothers' Day Meditation
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2016-05-07
That's How Change Happens. Watching the President Speaking at Howard
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2016-05-07
An Ode to Joy
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2016-05-06
What Is Meant By Zen “Practice”?
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2016-05-06
Of a Sack of Rome, Paradigm Shifts, Post & Neo Fascism, and Just a Hint of Hope for the Future
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2016-05-05
Hurray! It's Cinco de Mayo!
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2016-05-04
“The Story of God” – Do Buddhists Believe in Miracles?
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2016-05-04
Two Lives. One Life. A Small Meditation on Attribution, the Real, and that Wild Ride to the Great Ocean
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2016-05-03
Watching A Hologram for the King
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2016-05-02
Anne Boleyn is Arrested, and a Small But Important Spiritual Lesson is Suggested
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2016-05-02
Why Did You Become A Buddhist?
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2016-05-01
SETTING A PLACE FOR ELIJAH: Welcoming Into the Circle as Spiritual Practice
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2016-04-30
Everything is Nothing, With a Twist
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2016-04-30
Visiting the Chinese Theatre and Taking a Peek Into our American Heart
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2016-04-29
Hair, Glorious Hair
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2016-04-29
Five Styles of Soto Zen in the West
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2016-04-28
A Zen Meditation on Pain
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2016-04-28
Buddhists talk Trump, George Takei urges Democrats to #VoteBlueNoMatterWho
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2016-04-27
Buddhism, Politics, and the 2016 US Presidential Race (April/May Poll)
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2016-04-26
“The Story of God” – A Buddhist Perspective on Evil
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2016-04-26
Our Lady of Good Counsel
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2016-04-25
5 Lessons from the Nepal Earthquake for the Japan and Ecuador Disasters
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2016-04-25
Shunryu Suzuki: Branches of the Sandokai
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2016-04-24
Buddha's advice on wilderness and living in the present moment in nature
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2016-04-23
The Souse Family and Buddhism's Fifth Precept
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2016-04-23
Marking 400 Years with the Bard
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2016-04-23
A Quick Visit to the Storied San Francisco Zen Center's City Center
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2016-04-22
Mr John Waters Turns Seventy
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2016-04-21
Holding Up the Moon: Thinking a Little About East African Plains Apes and Zen
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2016-04-21
Celebrating Our American Moses: Harriet Tubman
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2016-04-20
"The Story of God" - A Buddhist Perspective on Creation
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2016-04-20
Happy Birthday, George Takei - American Buddhist, Actor, Author, Activist
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2016-04-20
You Start With Two Tablespoons of Lard: Making a Goulash Pie
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2016-04-19
Not Forgetting: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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2016-04-19
A WESTERN SOTO ZEN BUDDHIST STATEMENT ON THE CLIMATE CRISIS
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2016-04-18
Your Summer in a Chinese Buddhist Monastery - Woodenfish HBMLP in China
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2016-04-18
The Buddha and The Truth About Suffering
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2016-04-18
Lord Kitchener, No Not that Lord Kitchener is Born
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2016-04-17
Enter Daffy Duck
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2016-04-16
Buddhist Ethics has a good day: on Philosophy, East and West
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2016-04-16
The Story of Mu, the Story of You & Me
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2016-04-15
The Good Thing about Suffering
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2016-04-15
Ranting at Harvard Divinity School: Embarrassing Ralph Waldo Emerson & the Buddha in One Talk
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2016-04-14
B.R. Ambedkar and the Dalit Buddhist Movement
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2016-04-12
Letting identity arise unimpeded: Buddhism confronting racism
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2016-04-11
Eye in the Sky, Morality Play as Political Thriller
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2016-04-11
Kensho
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2016-04-10
MISTAKES WERE MADE A Meditation on the Ecological Catastrophe & What to Do About It, Even if it is Too Late
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2016-04-09
Universities are facing an "intellectual crisis"
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2016-04-09
Tom Lehrer: Always Predict the Worst & You'll be Hailed as a Prophet
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2016-04-09
When Marian Anderson Rocked the Mall
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2016-04-08
And a Blessed Buddha's Birthday to You!
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2016-04-07
William Ellery Channing, Radical Religion, and the Hope of the Spiritual Within a World in Turmoil
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2016-04-07
The Beginning of the End of Oscar Wilde
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2016-04-06
A "Very Buddhist" take on The Story of God: Apocalypse
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2016-04-06
As it Turns Out the Deity Loves Draft Dodgers & Dope Smokers
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2016-04-05
The Buddha Suggests When to Shut Up, When to Speak
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2016-04-05
Mindfulness and Self-Care: Why Should I Care?
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2016-04-04
The Four Immeasurable Minds
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2016-04-04
In Quest of the Dream
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2016-04-03
EATING TOGETHER A Sermon for a Unitarian Universalist Pledge Drive
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2016-04-03
Buddhists for Bernie: a breakdown of our March US Presidential Poll
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2016-04-02
Mr Tally Opens His Electric Theatre: A Very Slight Meditation on My Movie Going Life
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2016-04-01
Study shows most Americans shouldn't meditate: repress awful life events instead
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2016-04-01
The Wave-Particle Duality and Practice-Enlightenment
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2016-04-01
An April Fool
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2016-04-01
Mutuality at the Limits of Race - A Buddhist Perspective
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2016-03-31
In Service to Humanity and the World: A Meditation on Social Capitalism
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2016-03-31
In Remembrance of Me: A Meditation on Human Memory and the Deepest Things
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2016-03-30
A Shout Out for the Spiritual Baptists
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2016-03-29
Eric Idle Leaps from the Brow of Zeus. Or, maybe that was Athena. I get confused about these Things.
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2016-03-28
In the City of Gold, the Streets are Lined with Food Trucks
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2016-03-28
The Six Perfections
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2016-03-28
Three Pounds or so of Flesh
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2016-03-27
MYSTERY PILED UPON MYSTERY A Zen Buddhist Meditation on Easter
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2016-03-27
As North Carolina backslides on LGBT rights, we revisit our interview with the creators of transbuddhists.org
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2016-03-26
Buddhism, Politics, and the 2016 US Presidential Race
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2016-03-26
Who is a Christian? A Holy Saturday Meditation
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2016-03-26
Gabriel, Go Blow Your Horn! A Small Zen Meditation for This Holy Saturday
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2016-03-25
Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Philosophy, for the love of language, and the limits of language
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2016-03-25
All In for Atheism
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2016-03-25
Reading Tolkien
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2016-03-24
The Archbishop Was Shot While Raising the Chalice: A Small Meditation
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2016-03-23
Building Bridges of Loving-kindness: Mongolia's Rich History and Culture of Buddhism
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2016-03-23
Compassion That Is Boundless
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2016-03-23
Up & Down & a Big Fat Thank You to Mr Otis
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2016-03-22
The Emerald Buddha Comes Home
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2016-03-22
The Mother of Bishops
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2016-03-22
Tibetans for Trump and other unintended consequences
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2016-03-21
Transforming the World by Transforming Your Heart
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2016-03-21
The Dawn of Son House
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2016-03-20
MAY YOU LIVE IN INTERESTING TIMES A Meditation on the Life and Legacy of Olympia Brown
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2016-03-20
Spring
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2016-03-20
Mindfulness, MOOCs, and Money in Higher Education: or "how to overthrow the system"
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2016-03-19
Mindfulness, MOOCs, and Money in Higher Education
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2016-03-18
March 18th is One Big Day (Just Letting You know...)
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2016-03-17
Saint Gertrude, Patron of Cats (Okay, This is Just an Excuse to post some Cute Cat videos. Is that Some Kind of Crime?)
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2016-03-17
Buddha Beer?
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2016-03-16
Death and sorrow surround us. And. And. Let the Festivities Begin
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2016-03-15
Buddhism and Health: Illuminating the Spectrum of Therapies
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2016-03-15
Marking International Kill a Tyrant Day
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2016-03-14
All Training Is On The Job
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2016-03-14
Jonathan Luther "John" "Casey" Jones is Born
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2016-03-14
Hurray, it's Pi Day!
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2016-03-14
Meditation Olympics - the winner might surprise you
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2016-03-13
In Celebration of Joseph Priestley
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2016-03-13
A Feast for Bishop Holly
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2016-03-12
Getting On the Road. Dharma Bum Jack Kerouac is Born
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2016-03-11
Buddhism and Politics: African American and Feminist icon bell hooks can no longer support Hillary Clinton
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2016-03-11
Life, Liberty, the Pursuit of Happiness, and Justice: A Buddhist Perspective with Jan Willis
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2016-03-11
A Pagan Feast for Johnny Appleseed, Our American Dionysus
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2016-03-11
#Tibetan National Uprising Day marked around the World
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2016-03-10
Recalling the Dutchman Who Taught America How to Drink Coffee on the Occasion of What Would Have Been his Ninety-sixth Birthday!
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2016-03-09
The Dalai Lama on Donald Trump, "personal criticism looks - a little cheap"
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2016-03-08
The Buddhist's Powerful Political Response: The Middle Way between Anger and Resignation
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2016-03-08
One Pirate's Life Begins: Anne Bonny is Born
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2016-03-07
Princeton's Robert Wright talks meditation, ethics, and awakening with Daniel Ingram
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2016-03-07
What's a Bodhisattva?
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2016-03-07
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: a Short Review
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2016-03-06
A LAWYER ASKED JESUS, WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR? A Buddhist Meditation on a Christian Parable
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2016-03-05
A Feast for Lei Feng, A Small Meditation on the Work of Saints
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2016-03-04
May You Live in Interesting Times: A Small Meditation on Life When It All is Falling Apart
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2016-03-03
Wishing Doc Watson a Happy 93rd Birthday!
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2016-03-03
Getting Patriotic
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2016-03-02
King Kong Opens
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2016-03-02
It's Images like this that give Sanders supporters hope
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2016-03-02
Buddhist political leanings in the American Presidential Race 2016 (Continued with Age and Gender)
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2016-03-01
Thus Should One Regard One's Self
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2016-03-01
Buddhist political leanings in the American Presidential Race 2016 (Continued)
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2016-03-01
Rebirth and Zen
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2016-03-01
The Burning Spear Is Thrown
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2016-02-29
Buddhist political leanings in the American Presidential Race 2016
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2016-02-29
What is Enlightenment in Zen?
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2016-02-29
Review of Brad Warner's Latest, "Don't Be A Jerk"
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2016-02-29
A Buddhist and a Nun Walk into a Church
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2016-02-28
"Turn Down for What?" & Buddhism - an intro for the modern world
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2016-02-28
MARK TWAIN'S ENLIGHTENMENT EXPERIENCE A Meditation on Spirituality After Religions
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2016-02-27
George Herbert, A Soul Composed of Harmonies
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2016-02-26
A Mindfulness Dystopia? Pamela Anderson gets 'Connected'
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2016-02-26
Remembering the Man Who Asked the Next Question: Wishing Theodore Sturgeon a Happy 98th!
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2016-02-26
But at Least We got Cornflakes
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2016-02-25
Stopping to Recall an Historic Moment in the History of the Republic
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2016-02-25
Pew Research: most Buddhists in USA are Democrats - Have your say here
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2016-02-25
Happy Birthday, George Harrison!
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2016-02-24
The Dalai Lama's inspiring appeal to love, human values, and inter-religious harmony
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2016-02-23
Cambodian Buddhist Temple in Oakland destroyed in fire
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2016-02-23
A REPORT ON LAY DHARMA TRANSMISSION IN NORTH AMERICAN SOTO ZEN
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2016-02-23
In Celebration of Good Boundaries: Or, Have a Blessed Terminalia!
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2016-02-22
Buddhism: mindfulness vs the "meditation romance"
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2016-02-22
A Meditation on Alan Watts & A Christianity Worth Following
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2016-02-21
Dalai Lama tops list of 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People in 2016, Several Other Buddhists Included
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2016-02-21
My Private War
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2016-02-21
Thinking of Malcolm X, Who Was Assassinated on this Day in 1965
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2016-02-20
A Pause in the Midst of the Craziness to Honor Frederick Douglass as a Christian Saint
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2016-02-19
The Onion takes on popular Buddhist "meditation apps"
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2016-02-19
When Artists Write History: A Small Thought on Engaging the World
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2016-02-18
The Vidyadhara Dream.
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2016-02-18
Why Life Is Worth It
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2016-02-18
How Mindfulness Works: The Story of the Two Wolves
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2016-02-17
Exploring a new Buddhist America
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2016-02-17
Passed Away
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2016-02-16
Enter King Tut
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2016-02-14
THE MYSTERIES OF INTIMACY: A Buddhist Meditation on Valentine's Day
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2016-02-14
Buddhism, Romance, and Love - a Valentine's Warning
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2016-02-13
Charles Schulz as Religious Humanist
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2016-02-12
The Heavens Cry out in Joy: Charles Darwin is Born on this Day!
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2016-02-11
Pain and Freedom: A Buddhist's Meditation Journey
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2016-02-11
Salvation by Bibliography: a Universalist Spiritual Discipline
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2016-02-10
You Have to Be Your Own Fan (Even If You're Pathetic Sometimes)
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2016-02-10
The Great Schnozola is Born
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2016-02-09
How colour blinds: A Burmese-Canadian-Buddhist on the many tones of belongingness.
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2016-02-08
As Things Fall Apart
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2016-02-07
ZEN BUDDHISM, UNITARIAN UNIVERSALISM, AND FINDING A LIFE THAT MATTERS
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2016-02-06
Enter the Sultan of Swat
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2016-02-05
Among the Sangha: An African American Buddhist in the Zendo
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2016-02-05
Happy birthday, Bill! Okay, maybe nineteen years after William S Burroughs died is a bit late, but...
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2016-02-05
The Dalai Lama's message on Living a Meaningful Life - Tibetan New Year
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2016-02-04
Crossing the Great Divides in U.S. Buddhism
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2016-02-04
Happy Birthday, Rosa!
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2016-02-04
African American Buddhism - a manual for an Age of Enlightenment
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2016-02-03
Bob & Ray Call It a Day
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2016-02-03
The Tibetan Feminist Collective: an interview with co-founder Tenzin Pelkyi
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2016-02-02
Carol: A Review
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2016-02-01
Zen in an American Style: Boundless Way Zen Comes to Southern California
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2016-01-31
WHAT WOULD THEODORE PARKER DO? A Meditation on Theodore Parker and the Call of Liberal Religion as a Compass in Hard Times
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2016-01-30
David Bowie's ashes to be spread in Bali "in accordance with the Buddhist rituals"
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2016-01-30
Leonard Cohen and Zen
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2016-01-30
Gandhi Dies: The Briefest of Meditations
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2016-01-29
Practicing within Sickness and Pain
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2016-01-28
Finding a Secret Cabal of the Heart Gathering at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury
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2016-01-27
Jerusha Howe: Hanging With the Ghost at Longfellow's Wayside Inn
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2016-01-27
You Left Me: When Their Words Hurt.
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2016-01-26
Buddhist Cheat Sheet (Minimal Edition)
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2016-01-26
Mr Bligh's Second Mutiny
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2016-01-25
Receiving and Maintaining Our Deepest Aspiration
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2016-01-24
Humble & Kind
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2016-01-23
Enter the Frisbee
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2016-01-22
Conan the Barbarian is Born
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2016-01-21
Mad World
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2016-01-20
Fifteen Dollars an Hour: A Small Meditation on Testifying Before the City Council
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2016-01-19
Vincent Price Reads the Raven
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2016-01-19
Invoking "The More"
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2016-01-19
Happy 70th Dolly Parton!
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2016-01-19
In power grab from the Dalai Lama, China announces list of "verified living Buddhas" for Tibetan Buddhism
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2016-01-18
Robert Anton Wilson: The Master of Maybe Logic Is Born
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2016-01-17
MARTIN'S DREAM & OURS A Liberal Religious Response to the Horrors of Our Times
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2016-01-16
Don Quixote Saddles Up
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2016-01-15
A Word or Two from a Sympathetic Outsider on the Divisions Within the Anglican Communion
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2016-01-14
The Age of Aquarius Begins
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2016-01-13
Johnny Cash Live at Folsom Prison
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2016-01-12
Swami Vivekananda, the New Universalism, & the Unitarian Universalist Movement
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2016-01-11
Noting Senator Cruz's Birther Problem
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2016-01-11
David Bowie's fascination with Tibet and Buddhism
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2016-01-11
Happy birthday, Slim!
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2016-01-10
ON THE ART OF GROWING A SOUL
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2016-01-08
What is Buddhist Medicine?
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2016-01-08
Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh returns to Plum Village after US treatment
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2016-01-08
An Insatiable Inclination to the Truth: Recalling Thomas Aikenhead, the Last Person to Be Executed in Great Britain for the Crime of Blasphemy
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2016-01-07
Race Matters in Buddhist Communities
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2016-01-07
An American Zen Master Tells His Story
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2016-01-07
Reddit's Buddhism page bans support of the New Kadampa Tradition
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2016-01-06
Showing Up: The Smallest of Buddhist Meditations on the Festival of the Epiphany
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2016-01-05
Is Your Glass Empty or Full?
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2016-01-05
Following the Election, a Small Meditation on Facing Reality
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2016-01-05
Just Sit or Wake Up? A Tale of Two Old Teachers
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2016-01-04
J'accuse: Or, Why the Big Short is a Very Important Movie
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2016-01-03
BREAKING: major earthquake hits India/Burma (Myanmar) region
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2016-01-03
The Dukkha of Racism: Racial Inclusion and Justice in American Convert Buddhism
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2016-01-03
ISHMAEL'S CHILDREN IN AMERICA: A SONG OF ISLAM
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2016-01-03
Martin Gets the Boot
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2016-01-02
Jeff Wilson's "Mindfulness Inc: Buddhist Practice Beyond Religion"
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2016-01-02
Happy Birthday, Isaac! And, of course, a Blessed Science Fiction Day to All!
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2016-01-02
Mindfulness: the single most impactful aspect of Buddhism in America
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2016-01-01
Goodbye 2015. Welcome 2016!