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#ReNoVAte: renew, adapt, evolve, transmute
Razoo
14 mentions — 1 month 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
13 mentions — 1 month 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 ...
Saga Dawa Duchen
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
2 mentions — 2 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 ...
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,
Update on the Temple Renovation
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
2 mentions — 22 hours 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 ...
Why are we so hard on ourselves? (Day 38)
Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
2 mentions — 5 hours 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 ...
“Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.” Rainer Maria Rilke
Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
2 mentions — 1 day 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 ...
Creating A Sacred Space
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
2 mentions — 4 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.
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 ...
Top Finds From Friends & Celebrities
Lockerz
2 mentions — 2 days ago
Lockerz FavesOur picks for youBrowse by CategoryFind products & inspiration you'll loveBrowse by StoreShop popular retailersPeopleFind stylish membersUse Your PTZ
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 ...
Kunzang Palyul Choling
tara.org
20 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 ...
Please Help Save Buddhist Temple of Ceaseless Prayer
Razoo
3 mentions — 1 month 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 children tried to find a peaceful place for prayer between work commitments and ...
Self-compassion is not selfish
Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
2 mentions — 3 days ago
In his book, Living Ethically: Advice from Nagarjuna’s Precious Garland, Sangharakshita has some advice for those who feel guilty about wanting to be happy. I have to confess that I’d forgotten that it was possible to feel this way…“Unfortunately, many of us in the West were given to ...
Who is God? | THE RABBIT HOLE with Deepak Chopra
THE RABBIT HOLE with Deepak Chopra
2 mentions — 2 weeks ago
Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to like The Chopra Well's video.Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or Chrome) to dislike The Chopra Well's video.Sign in with your YouTube Account (YouTube, Google+, Gmail, Orkut, Picasa, or ...
How to Meditate
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
9 mentions — 4 months ago
Meditation is the natural state of mind when it is relaxed, stable, and open.When our mind is calm and settled, there is a spaciousness that allows time between action and reaction.The trouble is that the mind more frequently runs wild like a monkey. That is what happens when ...
Help Save Tibetan Buddhist Place of Refuge
The Petition Site
3 mentions — 2 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 ...
An Opera and a Musical Revive interest in Buddhism
patheos.com
3 mentions — 2 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 ...
Angry Asian Buddhist: How many Asian Buddhists never meditate?
angryasianbuddhist.com
2 mentions — 4 days ago
This month is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which I’ve decided to celebrate by asking a daily question on Twitter about Asian Buddhists in America. If you tweet me an answer—even if it’s only an attempt—then I’ll post the answer on this blog. You’ll also get a postcard ...
This is Water: David Foster Wallace and Buddhism
patheos.com
3 mentions — 1 week ago
The commencement address that David Foster Wallace gave in 2005 at Kenyon College has just been re-posted on youtube with a little visual help from filmmakers known as The Glossary. As the filmmakers state,”the resulting speech didn’t become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death.
The Buddha (and his disciples) on compassion (Day 34)
Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
2 mentions — 4 days ago
After 34 days of blogging on mindfulness and compassion I’m getting a little tired of the sound of my own voice, so I’m plucked some sayings from the Pali canon. The Pali canon is part of the oldest strata of teachings that we have available to us. It ...
Help Support Help for Carter
Help for Carter
3 mentions — 4 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 ...
Study at Home
The Interdependence Project
3 mentions — 1 month ago
Audio is delivered within two days after the live class session in mp3 format, and may be streamed from this website or downloaded to listen to at your convenience.Audio Lectures are available two days following the class session.They come in mp3 format and and may be streamed from ...
Buddhism now on WordPress.com
buddhismnow.com
2 mentions — 1 month ago
Mindfulness or awareness is nonjudgemental and nonconceptual. Now, this can be a little tricky because when we hear nonjudgemental mindfulness, we may think there is a judgemental mindfulness or a conceptual mindfulness…Filed under: Art, Beginners, Buddhist meditation, Corrado Pensa, Theravada | Tagged: Abhidhamma, Bankei, Buddha, Buddhadhassa Bhikkhu, Gotama,
Helping to make the world a more compassionate place
Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
2 mentions — 5 days ago
Over the last 33 days of our 100 Days of Lovingkindness, I’ve written a blog post every day. Here’s a list of all the posts I’ve written, offering teachings on developing lovingkindness and compassion.I hope you’re finding all this useful. If you haven’t had a chance to read ...
Ways to Give
Kunzang Palyul Chöling
8 mentions — 4 months ago
Your donation will help with so many things! By supporting KPC, you are helping to bring the Buddha Dharma to sentient beings in this country, and all over the world.
Shinnyo-en, esoteric Japanese Buddhism for laypeople, spreading around the world
patheos.com
3 mentions — 3 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 ...
Jay Garfield: a Buddhist Philosopher speaks out (or howls) at fellow philosophers, academia, and perhaps the moon
patheos.com
2 mentions — 4 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 ...
BUDDHISM INVOLVES INNER TRANSFORMATION THROUGH INTELLECTUAL EFFORT AND SCIENTIFIC REASONING
LankaWeb
2 mentions — 21 hours ago
No useful purpose is served by explaining to or arguing with those who depend exclusively on religious books and accept their words without question or without debate. No monotheistic religion respects the human mind. Spiritual wisdom is lost when one embracesmonotheism. Understanding the human mind is the central theme in the Buddha Dhamma. It is up to us to decide where we are heading and it all depends on our intelligence not on any so called “holy” book. One may read the Quran or Bible or whatever, and examine what’s ...
“Idiot compassion” (Day 33)
Wildmind Buddhist Meditation
2 mentions — 5 days ago
Chogyam Trungpa borrowed from Gurdjieff the very useful notion of “idiot compassion.” Gurdjieff, a rather fascinating spiritual teacher of the early to mid-20th century, had said that we are all idiots of one kind or another, and his extensive lists of the various types of idiots we could ...
Back to buddhism's basics in sri lanka
Bangkok Post: lifestyle
2 mentions — 22 hours ago
'Ayu Bowan! May you live a long life!" When you hear this greeting, which is often accompanied by a gesture similar to a Thai wai, you know you are in Sri Lanka, a lush green tropical island with an ancient culture.LION ROCK: Monks walking towards the Sigiriya rock ...
The birth of Buddhism
sundayobserver.lk
2 mentions — 22 hours ago
“Oh Supreme! Let thy Great Law be uttered!” Whereupon the Master cast His vision forth on flesh, saw who should hear and who must wait to hear. Then spake divinely smiling, “Yes, I preach. Who so listen let him learn the law!”Ascetic Siddhartha attained Supreme Enlightenment 2602 years ...
Meet the Flock
Garuda Aviary
4 mentions — 1 month ago
Our birds include several types of Macaws and Cockatoos, African Gray parrots, Amazon parrots and Conures. Each of them has a story – many filled with abuse and neglect. Several of the birds have become so neurotic that they cannot be easily cared for. Other birds in Garuda ...
Help Support Help for Carter
Help for Carter
4 mentions — 1 week 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 ...
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 ...