Category Archives: Challenge 5 - Learn More About Buddhism (Personal Explorations)
A Year Later - The Eightfold Path in Reflection
Last year, about this time, I began looking more closely at Buddhism and some of the tools that it offers. I had decided to take my first look at the “Eightfold Path”, something that I had heard of through the four noble truths of Buddhism (using the eightfold path is named in the fourth [...]
Another Timely Find: The Spectrum of Buddhist Practice in the West
Thanks to one of my twitter friends, c4chaos, I came upon a description of some of the differences in Buddhism beliefs for some of the prevalent forms of Buddhism: The Spectrum of Buddhist Practice in the West – by B. Alan Wallace.
A Timely Find
Recently, during some chatting with friends on the topic of Buddhism, there [...]
Greetings from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to Buddhist Women
Our discussion group is currently reading a book that is co-authored by the Dalai Lama. Since I had not known much about His Holiness (or HH as we have called him for short) it has been a real interesting read not just from a general Buddhist belief perspective but also learning some thing about [...]
The Big Sit - Wanna Share A Challenge?
I just read about a really cool thing yesterday in my copy of Tricycle magazine. There was an article about something called “The Big Sit.” It is kind of a mediation challenge and you know what, it sounds kind of fun. So much fun that I think I’m planning to do it.
Here’s the Ticket…
Each year [...]
SL Buddhism Discussion Group - Topic Schedule - Tuesday Night @ 6PM (PST/SLT)
[ February 3, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. February 10, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. February 17, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. February 24, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. March 3, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. March 10, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. March 17, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. March 24, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. March 31, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. April 7, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. April 14, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. April 21, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. April 28, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. May 12, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. May 26, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. June 2, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. June 9, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. June 16, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. June 23, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. June 30, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. July 7, 2009; 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. ] To Join Us:
Please contact me so I can give you a landmark to my place if you want to join us. You will need a Second Life Account. All are welcome. IM me once you are there…
The Schedule:
July 14th (Tentative)
Break till October?
July 7th
Hardcode Zen: Pass Me the Ecstasy, Rainbow, I’m going to Nirvana on a [...]
