Notes in Samsara

A Blog from a Zen Buddhist with a technical background

Thursday, January 03, 2019

And while I'm at it...

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I also gotta write a response to this "Meditation and Control" essay . Here's my response: What would this author have to ...

12 Step Religions are not Buddhism...

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I would like to do a series of posts on the above topic.  There's several reasons why: From a Buddhist perspective, the whole idea ...

We are the Greatest Bullshit Artists

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I mentioned a while back that I had lots of new ideas.   Of late I have had some family difficulties and am working through them.  They hav...
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017

I've got lots of new material floating around in my head...

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Some of it has to do with recent experiences I can't fully talk about yet, some has to do with the deepening of practice that resulted ...
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Wednesday, August 09, 2017

Someone wrote a book...

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I'm a little taken aback when I see stuff in the marketplace like books entitled " Why Buddhism Is True ."  It's written...
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Saturday, August 05, 2017

Woke versus Awake

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This post is largely , but not entirely a response to the confluence of a few tweets, one a nice tweet by Brad Warner, which can be found ...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Buddhism, Martial Arts, 書道/書法 and Cultural Appropriation

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I could have sworn I'd written about this already but recent stuff I've been reading on social media leads me to believe that Cert...
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Sunday, June 18, 2017

What *do* other Buddhists think of Falun Da Fa? And is it harming the reputation of predominantly white Buddhist Communities?

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You don't have to look very far on my blog to know that I have been highly critical of the Portland Buddhist Peace Fellowship in re...
Thursday, June 08, 2017

Why the Heart Sutra?

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Christians have, at times, touted the Lord's Prayer as the "perfect" prayer; it contains evidently all the stuff that monoth...
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Sunday, April 16, 2017

The Heart Sutra

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The Heart Sutra is a fundamental text of Mahayana Buddhism.   As most of my readers who have read my blog are Buddhist, they know about the...
Saturday, March 25, 2017

Identity Politics and Zen Buddhism

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I'm using almost the exact same title of this post as one by Brad Warner , because a) it's roughly about the same topic, b) there ...
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Sunday, January 08, 2017

The Karma of Spiritual Hucksterism

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The other day,  I came across this article on Sendona, Arizona, in The Guardian: Sedona has no major churches, no relics, no establi...
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Sunday, December 25, 2016

The Dukkha of Christmas

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I come from a family with six kids, and as a young child my Christmases were usually anti-climactic, and sometimes worse than that.  Every...
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Sunday, December 04, 2016

座禅, after 25 years or so of practice, is worth it.

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I've practiced Zen for something like 25 years or so, that is, Zen meditation or Zazen ( 座禅 ). I don’t often talk or write about it ...
Friday, December 02, 2016

I wouldn't go that far...I'd go further

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Many of us, perhaps even many Trump voters, don't want fascism in the US. Brad Warner I think finds the tumult in the aftermath of Tr...
Thursday, June 09, 2016

"What is your exercise goal?"

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Today, two people at worked asked me essentially the same question.  I was actually confused; isn't the "goal" of exercise to...
Saturday, June 04, 2016

From the Founder of Falun Da Fa, which had been listed as attending today's Portland Buddhist Festival

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Sorry for 2 posts in a row about this topic, but I think it's important for people to know just what we're talking about when we ta...
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I'll be skipping the Portland Buddhist Festival this year...

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Last year I showed up and Falun DaFa was there.   They're there again this year .  I brought this up to the BPF organizer, Heidi, and ...
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