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.
If there is clinging to the idea that we have happiness, even if it’s the happiness that arises from dhamma, there will still be a refined kind of “fish bone” sticking in the throat, and the true dhamma cannot be discerned.
Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, “The Hidden Fish Bones of Happiness”
This month's film centers on Bön, the religion of the ancient kingdom Zhang Zhung in Tibet. Today, young monks and nuns carry on the Bön teachings and lineage, not only in the lands of the Himalayas, but also to countries around the world.
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