buddhism
buddhism
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by L. M. Sherman - 2007-06-07
Spirituality is an important part in my life, and hopefully in yours too. Taking positive action in this area helps keep you centered and focused. Take note that religion is a lot different from spiri...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-17
I had recently ordained as Theravada Buddhist monk at Wat Pah Nanachat, a monastery in Northeast Thailand. One afternoon, as I was half asleep and resting in the shade underneath my hut after medi...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-17
When I first arrived at Shasta Abbey, a Zen Monastery in northern California, I was assigned to the goat department. My job was to graze kids (baby goats) on the mountainside every day among the M...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-19
I don't know, but I do know that many times I must stop writing because I can't see the keyboard or the screen through the tears. What I write is heartfelt, and comes from places unknown to me, th...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-22
We are meditating, or perhaps just walking on the beach, and WHAM! the insight strikes. Wow! But then what happens? In a millisecond, the interfering mind elbows right in, "WHAT WAS THAT? WHAT WAS...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-22
If we look at life openly, honestly, we see that life is stage upon which we hurry back and forth desperately attempting to satisfy one desire after another. Pay the mortgage, get some money, get ...
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by Rajkumar Kanagasingam - 2007-06-23
A visiting German team became familiar to me when we were having dinner at the beach-end restaurant at the Aquarius resort as we were sitting at adjoining tables. They were going to Adam's Peak in a f...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-24
A "thoughtless" person can be very dangerous to ourselves, and unpredictable as well. Thoughtless people are all over the place, we seem to run into them constantly these days, and when we do, we ...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-24
There's a bird that sits on the very top of a high telephone pole in the woods across from my house. I watch it almost every morning. This morning as I was watching it, my neighbor walked by. He e...
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by E. RAYMOND ROCK - 2007-06-25
What is death? For a Buddhist, it is more of a continuation than an ending. But what is it that continues; this is the tricky part. If you describe the Christian soul as being a repository of ever...