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Tiny Drops – Tis the Season

Tis the Season Click on images to view the full size slide show. FIVE LIMITLESS THOUGHTS May all living beings have happiness and its causes May all be free from unhappiness and its causes May all dwell in equanimity, free of attraction and aversion May all quickly find the great happiness that lies beyond all […]

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Compass Songs – Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the […]

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Do Buddhist Celebrate Christmas?

I was asked recently, “Do Buddhist celebrate Christmas?”  I can’t speak for all of us, but I can speak for myself. I had a great conversation a few weeks back with a woman who was born and raised in Taiwan. She is a fellow homeschooling parent. We were chatting around the kitchen table and I asked […]

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Sunday Morning Coming Down – And So This Is Christmas

And So This is Christmas – John Lennon & Yoko Ono And So This is Christmas So this is Christmas And what have you done Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear ones The old and the young A […]

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The Passing of Rev. Dr. Taitetsu Unno

While  many in the Buddhist world are watching with worried eyes on the health  of Master Thich Nhat Hanh, we’ve lost another great light in the Pure Land Tradition. The Rev. Dr. Taitetsu Unno passed away on December 13, 2014. My heart goes out to his family; his wife Alice; his son Rev. Mark Unno; daughter-in-law Megumi; and his dog […]

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The Four Noble Truths

These are one of the great foundations of the Buddha’s teachings. Understanding these truths are an important first step towards liberation. The truth of suffering or dissatisfaction (dukkha) The nature of all compound things is temporary. Things are created, age, wither and pass. We are born, we age, get sick and die.  The nature of […]

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Modern Koans – Cyberenlightenment

Cyberenlightenment Here’s an odd question to start the series: Can a robot become enlightened? What makes a being eligible for enlightenment?  Is being human a prerequisite for freedom from birth and death?  Do we need to be alive?  If so what does that mean? Humans are bits of matter strewn together based on the instructions contained  in our DNA. […]

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One Minute Meditation – Dunham Brook

This week’s one minute meditation video was taken in Dover Foxcroft, Maine at the dam on Dunham Brook. It’s on the back side of Kiwanis park where the kids would play as when they were small. It was a very cold Thanksgiving afternoon at sundown, around 4:00 PM. Ice formed above the dam, but not enough to […]

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Tiny Drops – Decay

Decay Click on images to view the full size slide show. FIVE LIMITLESS THOUGHTS May all living beings have happiness and its causes May all be free from unhappiness and its causes May all dwell in equanimity, free of attraction and aversion May all quickly find the great happiness that lies beyond all misery May […]

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Compass Songs – I carry your heart with me

I carry your heart with me by  e.e. cummings I carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my […]

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