Vegetarian Ideal


Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
- Albert Einstein

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Alan watts on Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching

 Tao Te Ching is a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi. 

The text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated. 

The oldest excavated portion dates back to the late 4th century BC, but modern scholarship dates other parts of the text as having been written—or at least compiled—later than the earliest portions of the Zhuangzi.




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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Unwavering Focus | Dandapani | TEDxReno





Unwavering Focus | Dandapani | TEDxReno

https://youtu.be/4O2JK_94g3Y

We become good at what we practice and most of us are experts at practicing distraction. We live in a society that trains us to multi-task and jump from one thing to another in an uncontrolled way. The great panacea for a world plagued by distraction is learning and practicing the art of concentration. Living as a Hindu monk for 10 years Dandapani was trained in understanding the mind. There he learned and practiced the fine art of bringing concentration into everyday life.  In this talk, Dandapani will share spiritual tools to learn to create unwavering focus in our lives and the boundless benefits that result from it.

www.tedxreno.com

Dandapani is a Hindu priest, speaker on self-development and an entrepreneur.



Friday, August 19, 2022

ATTACHMENT





...if you keep insisting on being attached to the illusions of a self, to greed, hatred and delusion, all you’re going to ever get at the end...

~Ajahn Sumedho


#Buddhism #Dhamma #rightview



 Go as deeply as you can 

Into life

and you will be able to let go

Even of blossoms.


- Ryōkan, poet, hermit, Zen monk





Wednesday, August 10, 2022

The Role of Spiritual Practice in the Modern World





The Role of Spiritual Practice in the Modern World

Google Tech Talks
April 5, 2007

ABSTRACT

For the past 50 years, people have begun to recognize that advanced technology and material abundance do not provide meaning in their lives. 

This talk discusses how spiritual practice provides the balance needed to live a life of understanding and harmony.

Before retiring from the corporate, high-tech world in 1990, Les Kaye worked at IBM for over 30 years, as an engineer, salesman, manager, and software developer. 

In the mid-sixties, while working and raising a family, he started to practice 
Zen Buddhism. 

He was ordained as a Zen monk in 1970 and was recognized as a Zen teacher in 1986. 

Today he is the abbot of the Kannon Do Zen Center in Mountain View, CA


https://youtu.be/dPhbUavjSKc





Tuesday, August 9, 2022

Namo’valokiteshvaraya Chant





Namo’valokiteshvaraya Chant   

https://youtu.be/IZkjX_c4hm4


In memory of our beloved teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh we are releasing our best recording of the Namo’valokiteshvaraya chant of compassion, which was recorded in the Still Water Meditation Hall, Upper Hamlet, Plum Village, France, in autumn 2020. 

Monday, August 8, 2022

Why Study Buddhism? | Robert Thurman





Why Study Buddhism? | Robert Thurman


https://youtu.be/itA7dE2Aaps






As someone with half a century of experience behind him, Professor Robert Thurman knows a thing or two about studying Buddhism. Discussing what he calls the "Three Higher Educations," Professor Thurman argues that learning about our mind, how it works, and what reality truly is, is the way to happiness and peace. ___________________

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Bob Thurman: We can be Buddhas





In our hyperlinked world, we can know anything, anytime. And this mass enlightenment, says Buddhist scholar Bob Thurman, is our first step toward Buddha nature.

 

Bob Thurman: We can be Buddhas


https://youtu.be/h5cZITQDTrE






Robert Thurman on Buddhism for Non-Buddhists




 

Robert Thurman on Buddhism for Non-Buddhists

https://youtu.be/PZVYiL6LDjM


Look to this day by Kalidasa

 





Look to this day


by Kalidasa


Look to this day:
For it is life, the very life of life.
In its brief course
Lie all the verities and realities of your existence.
The bliss of growth,
The glory of action,
The splendour of achievement
Are but experiences of time.

For yesterday is but a dream
And tomorrow is only a vision;
And today well-lived, makes
Yesterday a dream of happiness
And every tomorrow a vision of hope.
Look well therefore to this day;
Such is the salutation to the ever-new dawn!






The Role of Spiritual Practice in the Modern World







The Role of Spiritual Practice in the Modern World


https://youtu.be/dPhbUavjSKc

ABSTRACT

For the past 50 years, people have begun to recognize that advanced technology and material abundance do not provide meaning in their lives. 

This talk discusses how spiritual practice provides the balance needed to live a life of understanding and harmony.

Before retiring from the corporate, high-tech world in 1990, Les Kaye worked at IBM for over 30 years, as an engineer, salesman, manager, and software developer. 

In the mid-sixties, while working and raising a family, he started to practice Zen Buddhism. He was ordained as a Zen monk in 1970 and was recognized as a Zen teacher in 1986. Today he is the abbot of the Kannon Do Zen Center in Mountain View, CA.





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ABSTRACT

For the past 50 years, people have begun to recognize that advanced technology and material abundance do not provide meaning in their lives. This talk discusses how spiritual practice provides the balance needed to live a life of understanding and harmony.
Before retiring from the corporate, high-tech world in 1990, Les Kaye worked at IBM for over 30 years, as an engineer, salesman, manager, and software developer. In the mid-sixties, while working and raising a family, he started to practice Zen Buddhism. He was ordained as a Zen monk in 1970 and was recognized as a Zen teacher in 1986. Today he is the abbot of the Kannon Do Zen Center in Mountain View....

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