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Pet Food Stamps
petfoodstamps.org
4 mentions — 1 day ago
ThePet Food Stamps program, a registered NYS non-profit corporation, hasbeen created to fill the void in the United States Food Stamp programwhich excludes the purchase of pet food and pet supplies. In these rougheconomic times, many pet owners are forced to abandon their beloved petto the ASPCA, North ...
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3 mentions — 1 day ago
RT @SangyeH: Please share this link to Pet Food Stamps http://t.co/0IIdxWUvtq Helps people keep their pets! #anipals #compassion #savelives @JALpalyul
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JALpalyul: RT @garuda_avi
2 mentions — 1 day ago
RT @garuda_aviary: "A Rescue Aviary’s Daily Mail" One example of a heartbreaking plea for help. #DontBuyParrots http://t.co/DcRvNOzi3p @JALPalyul
Prayer to be reborn in Dewachen
youtube.com
3 mentions — 1 day ago
Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to like chhimedtsering's video.Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to dislike chhimedtsering's video.Sign in with your Google Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to add chhimedtsering's ...
Compassion can be joyful
Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
2 mentions — 1 day ago
For most of the 25 days in which we focused on Metta Bhavana, I felt like I was swimming in joy. About two thirds or three quarters of my meditations were positively blissful, and in my daily life I felt cocooned by lovingkindness, as if I was inside ...
Kunzang Palyul Choling Frequently Asked Questions
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
3 mentions — 1 month ago
Sure! Buddhism is not a religion of conversion, and Jetsunma’s vision was for Kunzang Palyul Choling (KPC) to be a spiritual refuge for all people. Anyone is welcome to spend time in the Prayer Room (open 24 hours a day), enjoy the Peace Park from dawn to dusk,
Survey reminder
American Gāthā
2 mentions — 1 day ago
This is just a reminder post that the survey for my project is live on the web. I’ve already gotten a lot of responses, and I’m deeply thankful to all the folks who have reached out to me so far to share their stories and their experiences. (I’m going to write y’all back, I promise! Been a little behind here but am catching up!)The survey is an important part of the overall project as it seeks to measure current attitudes and practice trends among American Shin Buddhists. This is only ...
#ReNoVAte: renew, adapt, evolve, transmute
Razoo
13 mentions — 2 months ago
Please help us bring our Buddhist Temple up to current Building Code. We have a 24 hour prayer vigil for world peace, unbroken for 28 years.Over thirty years ago a young working mother with two small children tried to find a peaceful place where she could drop in ...
#ReNoVAte: renew, adapt, evolve, transmute
Razoo
14 mentions — 2 months ago
Please help us bring our Buddhist Temple up to current Building Code. We have a 24 hour prayer vigil for world peace, unbroken for 28 years.Over thirty years ago a young working mother with two small children tried to find a peaceful place where she could drop in ...
Update on the Temple Renovation
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
2 mentions — 3 days ago
We want to keep everyone updated on how the Temple Renovation project is progressing.Here are the latest details.The results of the water table testing are in.We did much better than when a water test was performed in 2006.That means that now we are eligible for further testing.At this ...
Tricycle
Buddhist Wisdom, Meditation, and Practices for Da...
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Spiritual change is precisely a process that is bigger than you. You don’t control it. You surrender to it. You don’t reinvent yourself through spiritual work. You face your…This Friday, May 11, Brooklyn Zen Center will hold a day-long sit-a-thon to raise funds for the...Our new May online ...
Why are we so hard on ourselves? (Day 38)
Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
2 mentions — 2 days ago
We can be very hard on ourselves, can’t we? It’s as if, sometimes, we’re watching out for any tiny hint of a mistake, and then we pounce on ourselves, getting angry, or frustrated, or ashamed.I suspect it’s because we can be. When people are allowed or encouraged to ...
How to Use a Stupa
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
3 mentions — 1 day ago
By prostrating before a stupa, we turn our face away from our egos and toward our enlightened nature. By circumambulating—walking around the stupa in a clockwise fashion and reciting prayers—we keep the image of enlightenment at the center of our attention.Stupas are visited by people from near and ...
Webathon – Let Love Open the Door!
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
8 mentions — 2 weeks ago
An online fundraising effort to gather 200 NEW Friends of KPC.The Friends campaign will generate long-term sustainable funds to support the operating expenses of the Temple.The webathon will air video and still footage of the past three decades, including teachings and blessings given by revered Buddhist masters and ...
Saga Dawa Duchen
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
5 mentions — 4 days ago
There are four Great Festivals during the year that relate to the life of Buddha Shakyamuni, at which time the positive or negative actions are multiplied 10 million times.This day marks the anniversary of Buddha Shakyamuni’senlightenment and parinirvana.This is a wonderful opportunity to make prayers, offerings and to ...
Resources and Information for Those Affected by Oklahoma Tornadoes
The White House
2 mentions — 12 hours ago
Ed. Note: You can help people affected by the recent tornadoes through American Red Cross Disaster Relief. If you are in the affected areas, you can also register as "Safe and Well" to let your friends and family know you are okay.President Barack Obama talks on the phone ...
“Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
2 mentions — 3 days ago
“Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help,” Rainer Maria Rilke wrote to a friend and protégé, encouraging him to make peace with his inner demons.It’s an interesting phrase, “inner demons.” We think of the demonic as being that which is evil, that ...
Safe & Well
safeandwell.communityos.org
2 mentions — 22 hours ago
After a disaster, letting your family and friends know that you are safe and well can bring your loved ones great peace of mind. This website is designed to help make that communication easier.Register Yourself as “Safe and Well”Click on the “List Myself as Safe and Well” button ...
Creating A Sacred Space
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
2 mentions — 6 days ago
This class will introduce you to the various ways to create a home altar that can be a dedicated environment in which to meditate and practice.
Kunzang Palyul Choling
tara.org
21 mentions — 5 months ago
to Kunzang Palyul Choling (KPC), offering a place of spiritual refuge, a worldwide organization linked through the internet, and a movement dedicated to keeping compassion alive in the world. Founded by Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo (Alyce Zeoli) in the tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism, KPC also represents a significant step ...
Top Finds From Friends & Celebrities
Lockerz
2 mentions — 4 days ago
Lockerz FavesOur picks for youBrowse by CategoryFind products & inspiration you'll loveBrowse by StoreShop popular retailersPeopleFind stylish membersUse Your PTZ
Isaac Hepworth (isaach) on Twitter
twitter.com
2 mentions — 1 day ago
@redbaronski we're up north until Monday's flight back. looks like we caught the four-day summer... perfect timing.dude analyzes 211,000 past questions and answers from Jeopardy, identifies patterns, sets new record on the show http://www.npr.org/2011/11/20/142569472/how-one-man-played-moneyball-with-jeopardy …LAX information monitors display evacuation alerts; everybody just ignores them http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/05/evacuation_aler.html …beautiful new wordmark for Instagram http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/hand_beats_filter_in_new_instagram_wordmark.php …"Given the choice between being the executive editor
Contribute
Garuda Aviary
5 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Make a difference! Be a part of caring for the birds of the Garuda Aviary, A Lifelong Shelter for Abused, Neglected and Abandoned Companion Parrots Your support really makes a difference in how much we can do for our Birds. As a non-profit 501(c)(3) Garuda Aviary relies solely ...
A recent Catholic take on Buddhism
patheos.com
3 mentions — 3 weeks ago
My news feed had an interesting title in it a week or so back, “In case you were wondering about Buddhism.”“Yes,” I thought, “I am wondering about Buddhism…” So I clicked through to see what it was all about and found that it was a link from a ...
The Garuda Aviary
youtube.com
3 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to like KunzangPalyulCholing's video.Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to dislike KunzangPalyulCholing's video.Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to add KunzangPalyulCholing's ...
An Opera and a Musical Revive interest in Buddhism
patheos.com
3 mentions — 4 days ago
If you happened to be in Berkeley, CA between February 6 and March 10, you might have caught “The Fourth Messenger” a musical animated by the questions: What if the Buddha were a woman? What if she were alive today?The story, “loosely inspired by the life of the ...
Jay Garfield: a Buddhist Philosopher speaks out (or howls) at fellow philosophers, academia, and perhaps the moon
patheos.com
2 mentions — 6 days ago
Last week I came across an interview with one of the true mahātmās of the academic study of Buddhism, Jay L. Garfield, a man who has cleared – and continues to clear – the way for what we can only hope is a great deal more work to ...
Shinnyo-en, esoteric Japanese Buddhism for laypeople, spreading around the world
patheos.com
3 mentions — 5 days ago
(April 2013) The Acting Supreme Patriarch of Thailand and Thai Theravada Buddhists joined Japanese Mahayana Buddhists in a prayer for peace. During the ceremony, Her Holiness Shinso Ito presented the Most Venerable Somdet Phra Maha Ratchamangkhlachan with a statue of Shakyamuni Buddha sculpted by Shinnyo-en’s founder, Master Shinjo ...
Animal Rescue
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
3 mentions — 5 days ago
Hands-on care for others is a hallmark of Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo’s instructions for her students. Under her guidance, we have founded two animal-welfare groups: Tara’s Babies Animal Welfare and the Garuda Aviary. The former began as a rescue operation for dogs abandoned in the flooded streets of New ...
Help Support Help for Carter
Help for Carter
3 mentions — 6 days ago
Carter Bean, the LUV machine, is a 9 year old Boston Terrier and our #1 (and only:) son. The little guy’s got urethral cancer that’s invading the prostate. It was first discovered when he wasn’t urinating. He was hospitalized twice initially but with his Chemo treatments, both IV ...
Salon.com
salon.com
2 mentions — 3 days ago
The "Frances Ha" director talks music, movies and midlife artistic crises with longtime collaborator Dean WarehamIn the end, it argued that settling for a mediocre job for way too long can bring you happiness beyond measureThe former Supreme Court justice speaks out on John Roberts and the case ...
Help Save Tibetan Buddhist Place of Refuge
The Petition Site
4 mentions — 4 days ago
A ceaseless prayer vigil for the planet and all beings has occurred at Kunzang Palyul Choling (KPC), a Buddhist temple in the rural Maryland countryside, not far from Washington, DC, since 1985. KPC offers a beautiful, spacious and tranquil prayer room that is open around the clock, for ...
FairfaxTimes.com: Day trip: Buddha knows best
FairfaxTimes.com
7 mentions — 4 months ago
Kunzang Palyul CholingWhere: 18400 River Road, Poolesville, Md.Attire: Visitors should not wear unreasonably revealing clothing. Shoes must be removed before entering the Prayer Room and the Teaching Room.For your safety: Please sign in at the temple before hiking in Peace Park.For information: 301-710-6259 or www.tara.orgEvery once in a ...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
drones.pitchinteractive.com
2 mentions — 2 months ago
Since 2004, the US has been practicing in a new kind of clandestine military operation. The justification for using drones to take out enemy targets is appealing because it removes the risk of losing American military, it's much cheaper than deploying soldiers, it's politically much easier to maneuver (i.e. flying a drone within Pakistan vs. sending troops) and it keeps the world in the dark about what is actually happening. It takes the conflict out of sight, out of mind. The success rate is extremely low and the cost on ...
Sponsor Prayer
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
4 mentions — 3 weeks ago
You may wish to connect your donation with a specific prayer request. In that case, we invite you to sponsor a portion of the 24 Hour Prayer Vigil. Your sponsored intention will then be posted near the entrance to our Prayer Room in Poolesville, Maryland, and read out ...
Dedicate a Brick in Maryland
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
2 mentions — 1 week ago
A stupa embodies the mind of Enlightenment. It provides a focal point for the prayers of those who wish peace and freedom from suffering, acting as a wish-fulfilling jewel for those prayers.Now KPC is creating a garden of such wishes to surround the Enlightenment Stupa. We invite you ...