Thubten Chodron is an American Buddhist nun in the Tibetan tradition. A student of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and other Tibetan masters, she became a nun in 1977. She...
Monthly Archives: October 2012
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An Interview with Thubten Chodron
October 11, 2012
This post was posted in Shambhala
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Don't Bring Things to a Painful Point
October 11, 2012
This slogan is about not humiliating people. An important point for the bodhisattva, or the practitioner of this mind training, is to encourage people on their path. However, you could...
This post was posted in Ocean of Dharma
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Mayumi Oda, contemporary Zen artist
October 11, 2012
After three months of traveling to Europe and Israel, I am now back home in Honolulu. I visited my friend Felix Hess in Haren, the Netherlands, and we worked together...
This post was posted in Zen Art
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Haiku of the Week
October 10, 2012
harvest moon—
children lined up
on the temple verandameigetsu ya
chigotachi narabu
do no en
Basho
From The Art of Haiku: Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters by Stephen Addiss
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Who's on Your List?
October 10, 2012
Boss, coworker, spouse, roommate, mother, father, child—who are the people you really dislike and wish would simply go away? Be grateful to them: they’re your own special gurus, showing up...
This post was posted in Pema Chödrön
