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Thus have I read: Not just science or religion - Accepting Uncertainty
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Thus have I read. Quotations, resources and links discovered and enjoyed on the Path. Tuesday, 28 May 2013. Not just science or religion - Accepting Uncertainty. There is no need for science to be fundamentalist any more than there is a need for religions to be fundamentalist. Fundamentalism springs from a desire for certainty, but many religious people and many scientists know that this cannot be achieved by beings with limited minds and experience such as ourselves. A Question of Faith".
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Thus have I read: November 2010
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Thus have I read. Quotations, resources and links discovered and enjoyed on the Path. Tuesday, 30 November 2010. Don’t get swept away by emotions. If you are a good horseback rider, your mind can wander but you don’t fall off your horse. In the same way, whatever circumstances you encounter, if you are well trained in meditation, you don’t get swept away by emotions. Instead, they perk you up and your awareness increases. On the 10th of November 2010. And I am aware of it while staying in the present.
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Thus have I read: February 2011
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Thus have I read. Quotations, resources and links discovered and enjoyed on the Path. Sunday, 27 February 2011. 8220;This has nothing to do with me! Attaining the Way: A Guide to the Practice of Chan Buddhism. Email newsletter 11 Nov 2010. As always, Master Sheng Yen offers simple down-to-earth advice for deepening our practice whether we are on retreat or not. We love to get involved in things inside our mind, outside our mind (is anything? Wednesday, 23 February 2011. Master Sheng Yen 聖嚴法師. However, as...
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Thus have I read: February 2010
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Thus have I read. Quotations, resources and links discovered and enjoyed on the Path. Sunday, 7 February 2010. Bricks in the Mud. Finding happiness is mostly a matter of perspective. What if I’d fallen into that filthy muck? Everything’s so dirty in this country! 8221; Since I knew her well, I prudently nodded, hoping to offer her some comfort through my mute sympathy. A few minutes later, Raphaele, another friend of mine, came to the path through the swamp. “Hup, hup, hup! Matthieu Ricard from ".
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Thus have I read: October 2010
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Thus have I read. Quotations, resources and links discovered and enjoyed on the Path. Sunday, 31 October 2010. A Cold Bowl of Samsara. A man would know the end he goes to, but he cannot know it if he does not turn, and return to his beginning, and hold that beginning in his being. If he would not be a stick whirled and whelmed in the stream, he must be the stream itself, all of it, from its spring to its sinking in the sea. Le Guin, Ursula K. A Wizard of Earthsea in. Puffin, London, 1993. p120. All the d...
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Thus have I read: May 2013
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Thus have I read. Quotations, resources and links discovered and enjoyed on the Path. Tuesday, 28 May 2013. Not just science or religion - Accepting Uncertainty. There is no need for science to be fundamentalist any more than there is a need for religions to be fundamentalist. Fundamentalism springs from a desire for certainty, but many religious people and many scientists know that this cannot be achieved by beings with limited minds and experience such as ourselves. A Question of Faith". I always love ...
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Thus have I read: July 2011
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Thus have I read. Quotations, resources and links discovered and enjoyed on the Path. Sunday, 31 July 2011. Dainin Katagiri Roshi vs Descartes. I think; therefore, I am," [Dainin Katagiri] Roshi quoted Descartes's famous line. "I'm sure he knew, but forgot to mention," and here Roshi took a long pause, "I don't think; therefore, I'm not.". THE GREAT FAILURE: A Bartender, a Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth. HarperSanFranciscoPuffin, New York, 2004. p110. Labels: Dainin Katagiri Roshi. John is my teache...
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Thus have I read: February 2013
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Thus have I read. Quotations, resources and links discovered and enjoyed on the Path. Friday, 8 February 2013. Our lives are meaningless if we take meaning for a coherent narrative plot of some sort. When we strain to make our lives otherwise, we're merely telling ourselves a story. You and I don't manifest in the universe as meaning, we manifest as living human beings. We're not here to represent something else. We're here in our own right. Received as Daily Dharma. On the 7th of February 2013.
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Thus have I read: April 2010
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Thus have I read. Quotations, resources and links discovered and enjoyed on the Path. Monday, 19 April 2010. Spiritual practitioners thrive in unpredictable conditions, testing and refining the inner qualities of heart and mind. Every situation becomes an opportunity to abandon judgement and opinions and to simply give complete attention to what is. Situations of inconvenience are terrific areas to discover, test, or develop your equanimity. How gracefully can you compromise in a negotiation? Is a word n...
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Thus have I read: October 2009
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Thus have I read. Quotations, resources and links discovered and enjoyed on the Path. Thursday, 8 October 2009. By now, John Daido Loori Roshi has stepped down as head of the. Mountains and Rivers Order. And now appears to be approaching the end of his life. I know him and his teachings through ". Cave of Tigers: Modern Zen Encounters. Art of Just Sitting: Essential Writings on the Zen Practice of Shikantaza. And from the recollections of my teachers at the. After a visit they made to him a few years ago.