孟=meng 天临=tianlin (in Mandarin - I'm bad with tones myself, though, so I won't bother adding those) It's an assigned name from a Chinese language...
Exactly this. "Free love" isn't non-attachment so much as it is non-attachment in the sense of rejecting more or less "traditional" sexual mores...
Shamanism as a term was first applied to old world traditions (specifically in Eurasia/Asia) in very specific contexts, but later came to be...
It requires no real reading at all, in fact, though if like most of us you come from a cultural/religious background in which Buddhism has not...
Grapefruit. After that, ties for mango, canary melon, cantaloupe, pineapple, apricots, plums, and pears.
Yeah, it's pretty cool. I like it. I'm going again this morning because a friend from out of town who is connected with the temple has been...
Good deal :)
I just saw La Danza de la Realidad by Jodorowsky in the theater a couple weeks ago. It was good, but not my favorite. I still prefer both El Topo...
That's based on an actual quote from Genghis Khan, but his translates more along the lines of ravaging their women.
"Change the channel, I want to watch Alf"
Eh, I've cooked a lot over the past few days. I'm going to one of the local temples tomorrow morning, though, and it's a Theravada temple in the...
Yeah, I don't know how it works now, but I'm pretty sure I have to have some high number of posts before I can send and receive private messages....
I am learning Chinese, slowly but surely. I am off the alcohol, back in school, and set to graduate next spring. I have switched my major to...
Haha...I hope things are going well out your way!
Hello, Piaf. I would say "merely" and "only" mean basically the same thing. In some cases (not all) I would add that merely can have a sort of...
No problem. Re-reading my post, it appears that I wasn't totally clear about the first item, Access to Insight. If anyone doesn't know it already,...
Buddha is a title, not a name. It is derived from the root bodh- which refers to waking up. "Buddha" means essentially "the Awakened One" in...
A big part of it seems to have to do with a combination of factors. A big part of it is that while schisms in the sangha have rarely caused much...
Last night there was a book I meant to include in the above post but forgot. The Zen Monastic Experience by Robert Buswell is an interesting read,...
您好。 香港回大陆以后，您怎么样？越来越好，越来越错，还是越来越复杂？ 我不好意思。我学中文只两个学期，所以我觉得我的中文台错了。这是很好的练习。我觉得要是您把你的对答给我用中文，我可能看不懂。 哈哈哈 我的名字是我中文课的名字。 谢谢！
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