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Gethsemani III
/ A Buddhist-Catholic Conference / "Monasticism and the Environment" / Click Here - Gethsemani3.info




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Buddhist Calendar 2010
The Forest Sangha Calendar

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A web page devoted to Buddhist Economics and
Social Action... Video, Audio & Articles

Buddhist Economics


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Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
by Paul Knitter


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Green Monasticism
A Buddhist-Catholic Response to an Environmental Calamity
Edited by Prof. Donald Mitchell, and William Skudlarek, O.S.B
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The Buddha, A Film by David Grubin

http://www.pbs.org/thebuddha/

Premiering April 7, 2010 at 8 p.m. EST on PBS stations nationwide

The Buddha, a two-hour documentary for PBS by award-winning filmmaker David Grubin and narrated by Richard Gere, tells the story of the Buddha’s life, a journey especially relevant to our own bewildering times of violent change and spiritual confusion. The program was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art, organized by Asia Society Museum, New York, opening in March 2010. The companion website for The Buddha, launching in early 2010, will feature the work of some of the world’s greatest artists and sculptors, who across two millennia, have depicted the Buddha’s life in art rich in beauty and complexity. Hear insights into the ancient narrative by contemporary Buddhists — including Pulitzer Prize winning poet W.S. Merwin and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Join the conversation and learn more about meditation, the history of Buddhism, and how to incorporate the Buddha’s teachings on compassion and mindfulness into daily life.


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The Eightfold Path with Kusala Bhikshu

The Yoga Studies program invites you to a lecture by the Venerable Kusala Bhikshu as part of their Spring Lecture Series.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 / 7:30 p.m.

Location
Theological Studies Village, University Hall
Loyola Marymount University (Main Campus)
1 LMU Drive, Los Angeles, CA 90045

Registration
'Free' and Open to the Public!

The Buddha in his forty-five years of teaching taught two things: why humans suffer and how to end suffering. The Venerable Kusala Bikshu will explore the ins and outs of the Eightfold Path, how it can lead to the end of suffering, a lifestyle of simplicity and personal fulfillment. Through stories and personal insights, Ven. Kusala will demonstrate how to use and integrate the Eightfold Path into everyday life.

The Yoga Studies program in the Center for Religion and Spirituality offers a variety of courses, certificate and events designed to study and explore Yoga history, text, and spiritual practice. Learn more about the program online.

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Hi Kusala,

Molly here from Buddhadharma magazine ... I thought you might be interested in the attached PDF copy of our "Unaffiliated Buddhists: Going It Alone" story, from the Spring 2010 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Quarterly.  It's a great set of pieces, and I think, worthy of some attention. Please feel free to post the attached PDF as website content.

"Unaffiliated Buddhists: Going It Alone" - in PDF


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Kusala Bhikshu gives a talk on Patience and Forgiveness
at the the Unitarian Universalist Church of Studio City
on Sunday - January 31, 2010

Free Download - Click Here

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newA Photo Essay of the Four Places of Buddhist Pilgrimage in India - PDF - 5.97 MB

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LUMBINI: “Here the Tathagata was born! This, Ananda, is a place that a pious disciple should visit and look upon with feelings of reverence.”

BUDDHAGAYA: “Here the Tathagata attained the unexcelled Supreme Enlightenment! This, Ananda, is a place that a pious disciple should visit and look upon with feelings of reverence.”

SARNATH: “Here the Tathagata set rolling the Wheel of Dhamma! This, Ananda, is a place that a pious disciple should visit and look upon with feelings of reverence.”

KUSINARA: “Here the Tathagata passed away into Parinibbana. This, Ananda, is a place that a pious disciple should visit and look upon with feelings of reverence.”

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newBuddhist Pilgrimage / New Edition 2009 by Bro. Chan Khoon San

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The idea of a pilgrimage originated from the Buddha twenty-five centuries ago! Before he passed into Mahaparinibbana, the Buddha advised pious disciples to visit four holy places the sight of which will arouse faith and religious urgency after He was gone, namely: Lumbini, Buddhagaya, Sarnath and Kusinara. The pious disciple should visit these places and look upon them with feelings of reverence, reflecting on the particular event of the Buddha’s life connected with each place. Since the Mahaparinibbana of the Buddha, these four shrines of Buddhism have become the focal points for pious disciples to rally around and seek inspiration. By the time of King Asoka, four more places, namely: Savatthi, Sankasia, Rajagaha and Vesali, that were closely associated with the Buddha and scenes of His principal miracles, were added to the pilgrimage itinerary. Together, they make the Eight Great Places of Pilgrimage.

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The gift of Dhamma excels all gifts.

new“An Introductory Course in Early Buddhism

Buddhism Course
Compiled and published for free distribution
by Bro. Chan Khoon San


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Over the last few years, several readers have indicated to me that the articles in the Introductory Course in Buddhism were too brief and should be expanded to provide more details. This new book entitled “Buddhism Course” is a carefully researched and upgraded version. It contains 17 chapters dealing with most of the relevant topics on Buddhism, such as: Life of the Buddha, Four Noble Truths and Eightfold Noble Path, Dependent Origin, Law of Kamma, Death and Rebirth, Five Destinations, World Cycles when Buddhas Appear, Ten Bases of Meritorious Action, Buddhist Vipassana Meditation, Recollection of the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha and the Three Baskets (Tipitaka) in Buddhism.

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Is Doing Good Compatible with Making Money?
by Carleen Hawn

Thirty Years as a Western Buddhist Monk
Ajahn Pasanno

 Ven. Geshe Tsultim Gyeltsen / 1924 - 2009
The Passing of Ven. Gyeltsen

 Barry Kapke (Kondañña) / 1955 - 2008
The Passing of Barry Kapke

Buddhism and Psychedelics
Geoffrey Redmond, MD

Meditation on a Coke Can
Elliott Zimmermann

Finding My Religion
Rev. Heng Sure

The Zen of Guitar
Various

Macintosh Monk
Julie Strack

Reflections on Mara
Rev. Jnana

 Nuns in the West III
Sr. Katherine Ann Smolik

Neuroscience and Spirituality
Peter G. Grossenbacher, Ph.D.

Meditation Alters Brain Structure
Sharon Begley

A Buddhist Perspective on Fasting
Rev. Heng Sure

How Will the Sangha Fare in American Buddhism?
Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi

Music in the Dharma /// Dharma in the Music
Rev. Heng Sure - Betsy Rose - Alan Senauke

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Buddhist Economics / Free Download PDF (253 KB) / Click Here

Buddhist Economics / A Middle Way for the Market Place - By Ven. P. A. Payutto

Translated by Dhammavijaya and Bruce Evans
Compiled by Bruce Evans and Jourdan Arenson


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The Shobogenzo / Dogen

A new translation from Shasta Abby of the classic Zen
text... The Shobogenzo by Sōtō Zen Master Eihei Dōgen.

Free Download / in PDF / 1144 pages

The Shōbōgenzō is the recognized spiritual masterpiece by the thirteenth century Japanese Sōtō Zen Master Eihei Dōgen. It is comprised of discourses that he gave to his disciples, in person or in writing, at various times between 1231 and his death twenty-two years later at age fifty-three.† These discourses cover a wide range of topics pertinent to those in monastic life though often also relevant to those training in lay life. He discusses matters of daily behavior and religious ceremonial as well as issues involving the Master-disciple relationship. He also explores the deeper meaning that informs the so-called Zen kōan stories, which often puzzle readers by their seeming illogicality and contrary nature.


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Mirror of Wisdom / Teachings on Emptiness - by Ven. Geshe Gyeltsen

Buddha Shakyamuni taught the Perfection of Wisdom, otherwise known as the Wisdom Gone Beyond, on Vulture's Peak, Rajgir, in what is today the Indian state of Bihar.

These sutras focus on the subject of emptiness, the ultimate nature of reality, and the Heart Sutra is one of the most significant. It is a beautifully condensed version of the Buddha’s teachings on emptiness, containing their essential meaning in only a few lines. Geshe Gyeltsen tells us that by integrating this teaching with our minds, it is possible for us to become enlightened within a single lifetime.

Free Download / Click Here




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Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation - Gil Fronsdal

Free Download / Click Here

Several times a year Gil Fronsdal offers a 5-week instructional series for beginning meditators. These classes provide a good overview of insight meditation practice as well as many guided meditation sessions which help the student learn how to establish and sustain a daily meditation practice. The "Intro to Mindfulness Meditation" web page includes audio files in MP3 from each class and class handouts with home work assignments in PDF.

 


 

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Paths to Perfection: Contemplative Practices in Christianity & Buddhism / B. Alan Wallace
Recorded at Unity Church, Santa Barbara, CA, March 12, 2008

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Jesus counseled his followers to be perfect as their Father in heaven is perfect, and for centuries, mystical union with God—understood as perfect love and omniscient wisdom—was the ideal of Christian contemplatives. Buddha counseled his followers to realize perfect freedom from suffering by irreversibly dispelling all the afflictions and obscurations of the mind. The ideals of personal liberation and perfect enlightenment have been pursued by Buddhist contemplatives over the past 2,500 years.

While these two contemplative traditions appear to have had little contact throughout their long histories, they did exhibit remarkable parallels as well as differences. Ideals of perfection and the means to realize it will be explored in this lecture, with the hope that the vitality of both the Christian and Buddhist contemplative traditions may be revitalized in the modern era, which could so deeply benefit from their insights and wisdom.

 


 

THE CONSCIOUS UNIVERSE

The Conscious Universe: Where Buddhism and Physics Converge / B. Alan Wallace
Recorded at Unity Church, Santa Barbara, CA , Jan. 16, 2008

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Physicists have long assumed that the universe is fundamentally composed of matter and energy and that life and consciousness are accidental byproducts of configurations of matter. But a growing number of distinguished physicists are now suggesting that consciousness may play a much more fundamental role in nature than scientists previously believed.

In this lecture Alan Wallace will review some of the most provocative theories presented by such leading physicists as John Wheeler, Stephen Hawking, and Andre Linde that challenge many of the materialist assumptions based on outdated 19th-century physics. And he will discuss how these theories may relate to Buddhist theories and practices, including those of the Theravada, Mahayana, and Dzogchen traditions.





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