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.
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perfectly clear state of a mind firmly established in great faith is in
no way different from the clarity of the buddhanature in someone who
has cast aside all discrimination and achieved self-awakening. The
buddhanature itself is Buddha.
July’s film is still available! Khata: Purity or Poison?, directed
by Huatse Gyal, explores the paradoxical relationship between the
meaning of the Khata, a sacred scarf used in much of the Tibetan
Buddhist world, and its materiality, between purity and poison, to raise
awareness of the unintended consequences of our good intentions.
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