A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Via Karmapa / FB:
I usually consider the planet to be a living system. I think of it like the mother earth, as being a loving, gentle goddess. - Karmapa
Via Tricycle Daily Dharma
Tricycle Daily Dharma October 8, 2013
A Serious Engagement
When
we engage seriously with the Buddhist tradition we learn other ways of
construing the world, other stories we can tell about the way things
are, and these can be cogent, coherent, and compelling in their own way.
This is not to argue for a naive acceptance of Buddhist epistemology
and cosmology. But we won't see what Buddhism has to offer if, at the
outset, we twist it out of shape to make it conform to contemporary
norms.
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- Robert Sharf, "Losing Our Religion"
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