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July 5, 2025 A New Buddhist Canon   Translation might be the most significant factor in Buddhism becoming a world religion. From the very beginning, the Buddha required his monks to translate his teachings into their dialects. Later on, the original Pali canon was translated into Chinese and Tibetan—both remarkable feats. Today, with the rise of artificial intelligence, Buddhist scholar Donald S. Lopez Jr. proposes the possibility of a fourth Buddhist canon and considers why we would want to create a new canon in the first place. “Advances in artificial intelligence raise the possibility of a fourth canonical language—English—and a fourth Buddhist canon,” says Lopez. “But why would we want to do this? Is it because every text needs to be translated? Is it because we expect to find the fifth noble truth? After centuries of translation, is there anything significant left to discover?” Lopez suggests that translation doesn’t just preserve tradition, it also creates it through what is uncovered and changed in the process. With the vast potential of AI, the implications are profound. Read more about translation and AI »   Also this week: A new film is available now! Honeygiver Among the Dogs is a haunting Buddhist noir that explores magic, greed, compassion, and the power of the dakini. Subscribers can stream the film now through the end of the month.   Arya Tara, the female buddha of compassion, manifests as peaceful, fierce and semi-fierce, or joyful—qualities we can learn to embody in our practice and lives. Learn more in this month’s Dharma Talk from Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton.   Congratulations, Kelly Westhoff, the winner of May’s Haiku Challenge! Read her poem, with commentary from Clark Strand, here.

Via Dhamma Wheel | Right Effort: Maintaining Arisen Healthy States

 

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RIGHT EFFORT Maintaining Arisen Healthy States Whatever a person frequently thinks about and ponders, that will become the inclination of their mind. If one frequently thinks about and ponders healthy states, one has abandoned unhealthy states to cultivate the healthy state, and then one’s mind inclines to the healthy states. (MN 19) Here a person rouses the will, makes an effort, stirs up energy, exerts the mind, and strives to maintain arisen healthy mental states. One maintains the arisen investigation of states-awakening factor. (MN 141)

Reflection Because the mind is inclined in the direction of whatever you frequently think about and ponder, influencing your own mind becomes the way of changing yourself for better or worse. When healthy states arise, such as kindness or insight or mindfulness, or when the factor of awakening called the investigation of states is present, this is beneficial and needs to be maintained through the deliberate and skillful application of effort. Daily Practice When mindfulness is present enough to give rise to the awakening factor of the investigation of mental and emotional states, do what you can to strengthen and maintain this quality of mind. Investigating your own experience is the primary way of gaining wisdom, but like so many other habits of value in our lives, it does not just happen by itself and requires the application of effort. This is worthwhile to do, so do it. Tomorrow: Establishing Mindfulness of Mental Objects and the Fourth Jhāna One week from today: Restraining Unarisen Unhealthy States Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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Sublime Experiences Liberatory sublime meditative experiences arise 3,000 times a day. You may have felt it come and go. You can’t hold on to and use it as a superpower. Once you allow it to come and go, over time it will settle in you as a way of being. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel, “Meditation Is Not Required" CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

Buddhism, Black Feminisms, and the Power and Politics of Love By Toni Pressley-Sanon In an excerpt from her new book, Dr. Toni Pressley-Sanon offers teachings on womanism, metta, and the transcendent wisdom of Martin Luther King Jr. Read more » A Journey Through Arya Tara's Many Forms With Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton Arya Tara, the female buddha of compassion, manifests as peaceful, fierce, and semi-fierce, or joyful—qualities we can learn to embody in our practice and lives. In this talk, Chandra Easton will explain how these qualities transform ignorance, aversion, and attachment. Watch now »

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Via Daily Dharma: Never Just One Mind

 

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Never Just One Mind Consciousness itself is arising and passing away in each instant. There is not one mind that is observing all phenomena; at every instant “mind” is created and destroyed.  Joseph Goldstein, “The Nature of Concepts” CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE

3 Basic Laws of Nature That Can’t Be Ignored By Mindrolling Jetsün Khandro Rinpoche A lama in the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions provides a timeless teaching on the relationship between the three characteristics of existence and karma. Read more » A Journey Through Arya Tara's Many Forms With Dorje Lopön Chandra Easton Arya Tara, the female buddha of compassion, manifests as peaceful, fierce, and semi-fierce, or joyful—qualities we can learn to embody in our practice and lives. In this talk, Chandra Easton will explain how these qualities transform ignorance, aversion, and attachment. Watch now »

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RIGHT LIVING Undertaking the Commitment to Abstain from Intoxication Intoxication is unhealthy. Refraining from intoxication is healthy. (MN 9) What are the imperfections that defile the mind? Negligence is an imperfection that defiles the mind. Knowing that negligence is an imperfection that defiles the mind, a person abandons it. (MN 7) One practices thus: “Others may become negligent by intoxication, but I will abstain from the negligence of intoxication.” (MN 8) There are these two worldly conditions: fame and shame. These are conditions that people meet—impermanent, transient, and subject to change. A mindful, wise person knows them and sees that they are subject to change. Desirable conditions do not excite one’s mind nor is one resentful of undesirable conditions. (AN 8.6)

Reflection The “worldly winds” are aspects of life that are as inevitable as the blowing of the wind, and we are better off accepting and adapting to them rather than attempting to avoid them. Among these are fame and shame, meaning sometimes we are a hero and sometimes a chump. In either case, we may not deserve the label placed on us by others, so the advice here is to see both fame and shame as the result of changing circumstances and view them with equanimity. Daily Practice One form of intoxication we are susceptible to is being influenced overmuch by what other people think of us. If people raise you up unrealistically or put you down undeservedly, try not to let it sway your own sense of who you are. As the text says, “A mindful, wise person knows them” to be the passing opinions of others, subject to capricious change. Practice remaining balanced, independent of the judgment of others. Tomorrow: Maintaining Arisen Healthy States One week from today: Abstaining from Harming Living Beings Share your thoughts and join the conversation on social media #DhammaWheel Questions? Visit the Dhamma Wheel orientation page.

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