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Buddhist Files And Links
Below is a link to the Files Page of Buddhist Boomers, where you can find many books, some articles, and some audio and visual educational materials about Buddhism:
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The Dhammapada and several of the sutras are featured here, including some annotated or with commentary. There are introductory materials on Buddhism, a massive Buddhist glossary, and manuals for Mindfulness, Insight, Loving Kindness and Zen meditation.
Items include D. T. Suzuki’s classic “Manual Of Zen Buddhism,” The Heart Sutra with book-length commentary by Grand Master T’an Hsu, and “Teachings In Chinese Buddhism: Selected Translations of Miao Yun,” highlighting the influential teachings of Venerable Yin Shun. We also have the complete H. Kern translation of the Lotus Sutra, and The Major Writings Of Nichiren Daishonin, in PDF format.
A number of these books have generously been made available free online by BuddhaNet, a massive and invaluable site you really should visit:
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Member NONNIE62 just told me about Buddhist Information Of North America, another amazingly extensive site with a huge library of sutras, essays on meditation, audio lectures, and other resources:
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Another place to check out is the Buddhism page of the Internet Sacred Text Archive, which links to several well-known scriptures:
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Most of the best-known Mahayana sutras are also linked to at bayarea.net:
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For those interested in Theravada Buddhism, I recommend the amazingly extensive site “Access To Insight,” where you can find the text of over 1,000 sutras:
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If any members know of other useful Buddhist sites, please share a link with us in a post.
Finally, here’s a link to my own blog about Kuan Yin, the Bodhisattva to whom I’m devoted, and on whom my personal practice centers:
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More information about Kuan Yin can also be found on our Files pages.
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The Dhammapada and several of the sutras are featured here, including some annotated or with commentary. There are introductory materials on Buddhism, a massive Buddhist glossary, and manuals for Mindfulness, Insight, Loving Kindness and Zen meditation.
Items include D. T. Suzuki’s classic “Manual Of Zen Buddhism,” The Heart Sutra with book-length commentary by Grand Master T’an Hsu, and “Teachings In Chinese Buddhism: Selected Translations of Miao Yun,” highlighting the influential teachings of Venerable Yin Shun. We also have the complete H. Kern translation of the Lotus Sutra, and The Major Writings Of Nichiren Daishonin, in PDF format.
A number of these books have generously been made available free online by BuddhaNet, a massive and invaluable site you really should visit:
view link
Member NONNIE62 just told me about Buddhist Information Of North America, another amazingly extensive site with a huge library of sutras, essays on meditation, audio lectures, and other resources:
view link
Another place to check out is the Buddhism page of the Internet Sacred Text Archive, which links to several well-known scriptures:
view link
Most of the best-known Mahayana sutras are also linked to at bayarea.net:
view link
For those interested in Theravada Buddhism, I recommend the amazingly extensive site “Access To Insight,” where you can find the text of over 1,000 sutras:
view link
If any members know of other useful Buddhist sites, please share a link with us in a post.
Finally, here’s a link to my own blog about Kuan Yin, the Bodhisattva to whom I’m devoted, and on whom my personal practice centers:
view link
More information about Kuan Yin can also be found on our Files pages.
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I know it's a few days early, but we're having our annual vegetarian thanksgiving with friends tomorrow (Sunday) because of logistics. So while I'm thinking of it, Happy Thanksgiving to all of us -- may we all share a joyous holiday with loved ones!
I could do without the commercial bombardment at this time of year, but expressing gratitude for blessings is one conventional holiday activity that I find really uplifting.
Welcome!
Welcome to vasaio, our newest member. I'm happy to have you among us. If you have any questions, please ask. We look forward to hearing from you. Namaste.
Welcome!
Welcome to our new members Barb D. and MarketMama. Thanks for coming to sit with us. We look forward to your posts. When you can find time, check out the reading matter in our Files Pages -- you might find some of it useful. Namaste.
Hello, I May Be Going
Hi, Friends,
I just wanted to let you know that our computer is being repeatedly attacked by Malware. I've been able to stop the attacks, and clean up after them, using software that we have, but if I should disappear for a few days, it means we've had to put the computer in the shop. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
Bless you all.
I just wanted to let you know that our computer is being repeatedly attacked by Malware. I've been able to stop the attacks, and clean up after them, using software that we have, but if I should disappear for a few days, it means we've had to put the computer in the shop. Let's hope it doesn't come to that.
Bless you all.
Buddha’s Footprint
Buddha footprint, Gandhara, 1st century
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The footprint of the Buddha (Buddhapada in Sanskrit) is an imprint of Gautama Buddha's one or both feet. It comes in two forms: natural, as found in stone or rock, and artificial engravement. Many of the "natural" ones, of course, are acknowledged not to be actual footprints of the Buddha, but replicas or representations of them, which can be considered relics in Buddhism and also an early symbolic representation of the Buddha.
The footprints of the Buddha abound throughout Asia, dating from various periods. Japanese author Motoji Niwa , who spent years tracking down the footprints in many Asian countries, estimates that he found more than 3,000 such footprints, among them about 300 in Japan and more than 1,000 in Sri Lanka. They often bear distinguishing marks, such as a Dharma chakra at the center of the sole, or the 32, 108 or 132 auspicious signs of the Buddha, engraved or painted on the sole.
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Buddha’s footprint drawing, Allen Ginsberg, 1982
Welcome!
Welcome to our new member Branwell. I'm happy to see you here. Please feel free to ask any questions -- we're all just learning ourselves, but we'll try to be helpful. If you're looking for relevant reading matter, there's a lot in our Files Pages. Namaste.
The Fundamental Delusion
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
-- Yasutani Roshi
A New Poem
THUS HAVE I HEARD
Silence
Need not be
Interpreted.
You can simply
Listen to it
And live through it.
No need
To read things
Into it,
To wait impatiently
For it to end.
You can
Just sit in it
And soak it up,
Silence is pure, is
Peace
No matter how
It started, no matter
“Whose” silence
It is.
-- © 2009 by Jack Veasey
Silence
Need not be
Interpreted.
You can simply
Listen to it
And live through it.
No need
To read things
Into it,
To wait impatiently
For it to end.
You can
Just sit in it
And soak it up,
Silence is pure, is
Peace
No matter how
It started, no matter
“Whose” silence
It is.
-- © 2009 by Jack Veasey
Krishnamurti on Meditation
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is the means and the end. -- J. Krishnamurti
