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Forrest Curran It’s Guest Post time once again! If you or someone you know is interested in writing a guest post, drop me a note. Forrest Curran is the founder of Purple Buddha Project. From Tokyo, Japan; he is currently traveling the World while he spreads motivation and encouragement through his project.
From New York to India Following your . . . → Read More: From New York to India, by Forrest Curran A reader writes: My question is how do I learn to be compassionate for someone who isn’t doing the same for me? I experienced what I can only describe as bullying from my former boss in my last work place and had to leave. I tried to show loving kindness to my previous . . . → Read More: Working with a Bad Boss  4 comments - (Comments are closed)  Daily Buddhism  bad, boss, buddhism, buddhist, conflict, work, workplace A Reader writes: I’m listening to the podcast on Buddhist Christmas, and I just wanted to add one thing. Technically, Christmas is not a Christian holiday. It started in Germany from a saint (Nicholas) who gave out presents to orphans. And if you do scientific research, you can figure out that there is no . . . → Read More: Legendary Days and Holidays One comment - (Comments are closed) Daily Buddhism birthday, buddha, buddhism, buddhist, christmas, holidays, legend, legendary Yesterday we talked briefly about Bardo, which is a Tibetan concept and involves the afterlife. I tend to lean more toward the Zen methods, and easily the most famous, most well-respected Zen teacher today is Thich Nhat Hanh. We’ve discussed him here before many times, most notably back when I introduced the Five Precepts. He’s a great . . . → Read More: Thich Nhat Hanh: On Birth and Death Ernest Hemmingway and Emptiness (Shunyata) This one is the second guest posting by Dr. Douglas Gentile, who writes the American Buddhist blog at usbuddhist.blogspot.com. He has been training in multiple Buddhist traditions since about 1989. In his professional life he is an award-winning researcher, author, and university professor. His previous guest post on the DailyBuddhism was “What Does . . . → Read More: Ernest Hemingway and Emptiness Koan: Accurate Proportion Sen-no Rikyu, a tea-master, wished to hang a flower basket on a column. he asked a carpenter to help him, directing the man to place it a little higher or lower, to the right or left, until he had found exactly the right spot. “That’s the place,” said Sen-no Rikyu at long last. The carpenter, . . . → Read More: Koan: Accurate Proportion A reader writes: What would it take to convert over to Buddhism? My Response: We’ve talked about this a number of times before, but it keeps coming up, so at the very least, that means there a lot of wanna-be new Buddhists out there. That’s a good thing! Although there are some traditions or denominations of Buddhism that . . . → Read More: Converting to Buddhism A reader writes: I have a question: What is going on with the brouhaha over Dorje Shugden and the row between the Dalai Lama and the New Kadampa Tradition? (if this is too detailed a question for your site, that’s totally fine.) My response: It’s a big question, one that may be beyond the scope of this site, but here’s the story . . . → Read More: Lamas, Geshes and Cults… It’s the NKT! A reader writes: I am not sure if this is the right place to send a question, but it is the only reference to questions I found on the website. I am reading about Buddhism because I started to meditate after exercising in the morning and found that it brought the most amazing sense of peace . . . → Read More: Truth in Labeling A reader asks: What is the Buddhist perspective on this 10 die as Buddhists, Muslims clash in Myanmar http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/21/world/asia/myanmar-clashes/index.html My Response: The world is a big place, and there are all sorts of situations. Sometimes these situations lead to violence. Nevertheless, you are right, these people aren’t acting in a particularly Buddhist fashion. Buddhists eschew . . . → Read More: Rioting Buddhists Clash With Muslims |
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