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Information on Buddhism and the American "Dharma Punx" tradition.
Updated on Jan 05, 12
Created on Jul 01, 09
Category: Religion & Beliefs
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Ken Pitts's List: Buddhism
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Aug 16, 11
Site for the documentary about Tibetan Buddhism's migration to the west, When the Iron Bird Flies.
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It’s not whether we participate in the world or not, but whether or not we hold the world hostage for our happiness.
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I feel that it’s very clear that forgiveness is an integral part of dharma practice, and that there is no one who is unforgivable, but yes, there are unforgivable actions—we don't have to forgive the Holocaust or 9-11, the rape of the planet, animal cruelty, or environmental destruction. There's so many unforgivable things that happen every single day. Yet these unforgivable things happen out of people's ignorance and confusion and delusion. They are forgivable people.
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I now have to admit, though, that I know less than I once imagined I did what “Western Buddhism” is, or what it may become. It feels sometimes that there are as many “Western Buddhisms” taking shape among us as there are Western Buddhists who practice them. As with the emergence of Linux in the world of computers, perhaps what we are witnessing in the West today, with so much polymorphous blending of traditions, is the emergence of Open-Source Buddhism. (This moniker is, in fact, already in use on numerous websites.) Like the populist software movement from which it borrows its name, Open-Source Buddhism proposes a grassroots, do-it-yourself alternative to the old closed, proprietary operating systems. And it may yet produce new applications that were not possible within the framework of those systems.
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