Buddhism Archive

  • 48 Psaltery & Lyre: Murray Alfredson, “The pivot”

    Posted on February 28, 2013 | 2 Comments
    "And would I not feel diminished / a little, were that plant to die? ~ / just as I sense concern to see / the leaves on three or four twig-clusters / lately turned from green to dun? / I am already lessened."

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  • Ride to the Sensoji Temple

    Posted on August 5, 2012 | 4 Comments
    Today’s Ride to “Church” (=Sensoji Temple) comes to us from Emily: In May of this year, I had the opportunity to take a group of five 8th grade students on a trip to our sister school in Kagoshima, Japan.   I couldn’t help but make […]

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  • Erin’s Ride to a 10-Day Silent Vipassana Course

    Posted on July 3, 2011 | 5 Comments
    Our beloved Erin just wrapped up a 10-day silent vipassana meditation retreat, or as some people call it, “meditation boot camp.” Hopefully she’ll tell us more about it here later. For now, some pictures of her ride to the retreat center in Dallas:

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  • Mormon Mommy Meets Eat, Pray, Love

    Posted on March 14, 2011 | 9 Comments
    In the spirit of wayfaring, Ashley joins us today with the kind of travelogue I’d love to hear in testimony meeting.  I’m the one with my mouth open wide and feet sitting in a pool of flesh-sucking fish, what Southeast Asians term a “fish spa.” […]

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  • Celestial Attachment and Parenting

    Posted on December 8, 2010 | 10 Comments
    Today’s post is written by ‘Saint Maybe’, a fabulous writer.   Enjoy! Buddhism teaches that the origin of suffering is attachment. That was part of the epiphany of the bodhi tree. Craving, grasping, clinging, and binding are all synonyms for this kind of attachment, with […]

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