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Re: When hightailing it from awful daily news, I click to...
So during the last precepts ceremony at my Zen center, media was mentioned in the context of the precept about abstaining from intoxicants. That was reassuring for me to hear, as I have struggled gre… (View Post)
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Re: Spiritual livelihood in the western world
I am a programmer working for for-profit companies. I have struggled a great deal trying to reconcile spirituality and work. That at times brought intense psychological suffering. My view of this has… (View Post)
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Re: Trump
I feel the frustration, @Hozan . Listened to DJT's address in real time and felt hopelessness. And yet, we gotta step back and realize that we do not get to live in a world that aligns with our ideal… (View Post)
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Re: Zen Buddhism and Rebirth?
Rebirth is definitely in the classical Zen texts. In my school there is some reading during every retreat and the stuff is regularly mentioned. However, we take it more as a metaphora for what our mi… (View Post)
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Re: Western Buddhism and "the Left"
@Dakini : just to be clear, the alarmism I was talking about was shared by the minority of members, even though that minority was vocal and has senior members. Some folks in my Sangha seemed to also … (View Post)2