Inspiration
Faith & Prayer
Health &
Wellness
Entertainment
Love &
Family
Newsletters
Special Offers
One City
Woah Frosting!
By
Patrick Groneman
I’ve never been so shocked by someone unveiling a cake to me as I was when last Friday my girlfriend Jen showed me the special Mandala Birthday cake she made for me. It was a delicious as it looks. May all beings have beautiful birthday cakes.
Dharma Literature: Reincarnation, Karma, and Ken Grimwood’s “Replay”
By
Paul Griffin
Reincarnation as a theme does not lend itself easily to discussion or literary treatment. So where does one turn in our culture for discourse on that difficult philosophical subject? Many, if not most, of the Buddhists I know are perfectly willing to go in for meditation and compassion, but not so eager to take the…
Hardcore Dharma: Gambling on Happiness, Betting With Lojong.
By
Julia May Jonas
Last week I didn’t post because my computer broke. It’s fixed now. I won’t go into details – talking about your computer breakdown/revival is like telling someone your dream, extremely interesting for you, extremely boring for them. However last week, hot, gloomy and fitful with hysterics about my precious machine-baby lying inert atop my bedroom…
Young. Black. Buddhist. Woman… In Kansas?
By
Ethan Nichtern
This is a guest post for the One City Blog. —–Evelyn Cash is a Soto Zen and Vipassana meditation practitioner living in Wichita, Kansas. She works as an engineer. —– No matter how you slice it, I am definitely in the minority. I am an African-American female twenty-something Buddhist who lives and works in Wichita,…
3
4
5
6
7
archives
most recent
search
this
blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
More from Beliefnet and our partners