DKos Community Weekly Sangha Thread*
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Not a Jealous God
“For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.” Exodus 34:14, KJVFollowing the conflagration of Our Lady of Paris and reading of Parisians singing the Ave...
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DKos Community Weekly Sangha Thread*
Next week will feature another guest host*.This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by way of many...
View ArticleThe Stubbed Toe Sutra
Four months ago, I was hopping mad. Literally. Not because of the stupid, hateful or venal thing tRump tweeted that day, or because our nation put 14 million metric tons of greenhouse gases into the...
View ArticleDKos Sangha Weekly Open Thread*
This is an open thread for members of the DKos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by way of many different traditions, and of no particular...
View ArticleHow Low Can You Go?
“Another Republican president"?Yes. HooverWorldwide depression. Next. Eisenhower.Gave us the interstate highway system, certainly, but that was for military purposes and all it did was encourage the...
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Dkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread.This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by...
View ArticleBuddhist Icons
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. For many...
View ArticleThe death of the Buddha
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Let’s start...
View ArticleKarma and CoViD-19
Some Christian preachers claim that CoViD-19 is a punishment from God from such misdeeds, in their minds, as homosexuality and abortion (Foster 2012).. In an interview, the Head Minister of the Nishi...
View ArticleDkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread.This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by...
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Dkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread.This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by...
View ArticleIn Bhutan, On Returning Home, 5 Buddhist Monks Encounter A Stream That They...
Depending on the country and on the sect, devout Buddhist monks have different guidelines when it comes to material objects. In Mongolia, i have witnessed many monks drive high-end Lexus’s. In other...
View Article"For my yoke is easy and my burden is light."
I talked about yokes previously. The quotation is from Jesus (Matt 11:30).I said everybody has a yoke, or yoga, to regulate their moods. I think that there are a variety of yokes that could satisfy a...
View ArticleWe Have Lost Our Sense of Tragedy In a Search For Heroes and Villains
What has happened, is happening and will happen in Kenosha is a national tragedy. Sadly, it seems that we have lost the ability to see it as such.Some want to cast Jacob Blake as the innocent hero and...
View ArticleDkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread.This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by...
View ArticleAttention and suffering
I don't know if this is redundant or if it makes sense at all. In the meditative Buddhist tradition, not all Buddhists, you try to extinguish the ego. I think how this works is you focus your...
View ArticleDkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread.This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by...
View ArticleDkos Weekly Sangha Thread
Good morning! Welcome to the Dkos Sangha weekly open thread.This is an open thread for members of the Dkos Sangha and interested visitors who happen by. Each of us has our own path; we come here by...
View ArticleMorning Open Thread - The Story of the Chinese Farmer
Morning Open Thread is a daily, copyrighted post from a host of editors and guest writers. We support our community, invite and share ideas, and encourage thoughtful,respectful dialogue in an open...
View ArticleDkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
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Dkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
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View Articlepre-emptive violence, interpretation, and policing
The haze of preemptive violence “to save” rather than take lives is a common rationalization for police dynamic entry or sneak attacks in war. The mediated versions of explanatory narratives tell a...
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Dkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
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View ArticleDkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
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Myanmar: a tourist's fleeting glimpse (photo diary, part 1)
In October 2013 hubby and I visited Myanmar.Now with the recent coup and ongoing unrest in Myanmar, memories of our trip resurfaced.Aung San Suu Kyi had been released from house arrest in 2011, a...
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Myanmar: a tourist's fleeting glimpse (photo dairy, part 2)
Literally boarding the ship (river boat) to MandalayIn October 2013 hubby and I visited Myanmar.Now with the recent coup and ongoing unrest in Myanmar, memories of our trip resurfaced.Aung San Suu Kyi...
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Myanmar: a tourist's fleeting glimpse (photo diary, part 3)
In October 2013 hubby and I visited Myanmar. With the February 1 military coup and ongoing resistance in Myanmar, memories of our trip resurfaced.Aung San Suu Kyi had been released from house arrest in...
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Sadly, Tina Turner Is Very Ill. And She Has Come Back To America For The Last...
For the first time in years, Tina and her husband Erwin Bach, returned to America, the country whose citizenship she willingly gave up, for the Broadway premiere of her stage show, Tina - The Tina...
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Myanmar: a tourist's fleeting glimpse (photo diary, part 4)
In October 2013 hubby and I visited Myanmar.With the February 1 military coup and ongoing resistance in Myanmar, memories of our trip resurfaced.Aung San Suu Kyi had been released from house arrest in...
View ArticleA Weird Path to the Acceptance of Self.
I was raised Lutheran i.e. by the doctrine of Sola Gratia, Sola Fide, and Sola Scriptura. The only part of which spoke to me was that my neighbour needed more of my “good” deeds than god, being...
View ArticleKarma: My limited understanding.
Karma, where to start, hmm, it’s complicated, perhaps I should leave it there, oh well, here goes.You can if you wish to regard it as a scorecard of good and bad that depends upon the past, present and...
View ArticleDkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
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Dkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
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View ArticleDkos Community Weekly Sangha Thread
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This Week in the War on Women, 12/12-18/2021: No Peace on Earth Yet
I don’t have a specific intro today! This week is typical: Lots of sexism, occasional good news, no let-up for the holidays. Please note that your humble diarist must stay with Mom for supper and...
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Dvar Torah Pesach bookmark: Zog Nit Kaynmol by Paul Robeson, & interfaith...
xxYouTube Video On April 12, prominent faith leaders of Christianity, Buddhism, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism gathered in Chernivtsi, Ukraine, near the Romanian border, together with local clergy,...
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Opening School, Building Orphan Home for Poorest of Poor
VOLUNTEERISMBodhgaya, India. This weekend we opened our Saraswati Centre’s free primary school and broke ground for Gaia Holistic Orphan Home with Dr. Kazuko Hillyer Tatsumura, founder. Extreme heat...
View ArticleA rabbi, a reverend, and a Buddhist lama ... have filed lawsuits to overturn...
Five lawsuits to overturn Florida’s current 15-week abortion ban, claiming the law violates their religious freedom, were filed by seven faith leaders from South Florida on Monday who represent diverse...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest: Saturday Science
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest - Saturday Science with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, Rise above...
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It's HOW one uses religion...
It's HOW one uses religion… ideology Pray for peace Happy,Peaceful,Blessed New Year!* To begin off with the first genocide (in recent history), the ArmenianGenocide, whether it was a jihad[1] or not,...
View ArticleSome Buddhist icons
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Religion,...
View ArticleOvernight News Digest - Saturday Science - Retrofitting a home to net-zero in...
The Overnight News Digest is a nightly chronicle of the day's news. Each editor makes his or her own story selection for that day's digest and publishes the compilation typically around midnight...
View ArticleA few words from a "Non-theist".
As a not particularly good non-theist Buddhist [what a mouthful], raised a Lutheran and partnered with a Catholic, the existence of god, gods and other “superior” beings is an unnecessary...
View ArticleOn Mindfulness
It’s down to the last minute of play on the field. The home team is down by seven. We’re still in midfield. It looks as if our last chance might have to be a hail Mary pass. Our game strategy, which...
View ArticleBuddhism and the Climate Crisis
Let’s start somewhere.Buddhism is not a faith or religion it is a philosophy, you can believe in any deity/religion you wish and still be a Buddhist.All there really is are the 4 noble truths and the 8...
View ArticleAnimals, Souls, and Intelligence
I was raised on a small farm in rural Michigan and of course we had animals. Cows, pigs, chickens before the price fell out of the market, and of course dogs and barn cats. They were always there and...
View ArticleThe Dude and the Zen Master Talk Peace
The Dude and the Zen Master Talk PeaceA friend reminded me of the Zen master and social activist Bernie Glassman and the Zen Peacemakers (https://zenpeacemakers.org) the other day. So I went over my...
View ArticleBisley’s Mantra: Sutra Upon Turning Seventy-five Years of Age
Impermanence. We float in it. We are constantly bathing in it. Everything rises and then falls. In the poetic zen metaphor, we are “streams branching in the darkness.” When the Dalai Lama was asked to...
View ArticleReligion and patriarchy
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Let’s talk...
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