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Two-drink MAXIMUM. Or, Dealing With the Pain of Being a Grown-Up
By
Ethan Nichtern
You mind if I get a bit personal this week? I don’t know how to talk about Buddhist precepts and practice without it, so I’m gonna. For me, the last year and a half have been, well, hard. It’s been an in-your-face, deep-tissue massage of my samsaric tendencies. If you need a starting point (of…
Totally Irrelevant: Emptiness
By
Paul Griffin
It is so silly to talk about emptiness. It’s totally irrelevant. Emptiness is not this, not that. (And both not this and not that, and neither not this nor not that.) Really, what was I thinking when I decided to write a weekly blog on emptiness! It’s futile. There’s nothing to talk about. In a…
Understanding The Eye
By
Patrick Groneman
” A monk … understands the eye, he understands forms, and he understands the fetter that arises dependent on both. And he also understands how the unarisen fetter arises, how the arisen fetter is abandoned, and how the abandoned fetter does not arise again in the future.” – Satipatthana Sutta “Seeing is not always believing.”…
Heard in One City
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cassmaster
A little Friday encouragement for all us would-be activists out there: “It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little.” — Author Sydney Smith, qtd in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week
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