I don't think it's a big deal? As Buddha's we don't pray or give ourself to Buddha? Shouldn't we offer compassion and understanding? Thoughts?

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It's been learned that today's shooter at the Washington Navy Yard was a practicing Buddhist who was also learning Thai.

I'm still stuck on the original question: "Is meditation compulsory?" There was a fellow here for zazen today and we were talking along very similar lines, since he is snooping the terrain …

I have recently joined a local meditation 'group' or session(s).

I am beginning what some will call a difficult, yet rewarding goal. In the next year or so, I will be reading and writing on the well known "Dr.Eliot's Five Foot Shelf," known as The Harvar…

In the story of Bodhidharma, he finds a monk named Huike in a cave, who takes part in his own kind of meditation where he would sit facing the cave wall, staring at it. Does anyone know why he did th…

Well, against my better judgement, I decided to come back here and post this thread, even after the horrors of this debacle:

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