I believe that Thich Nhat Hahn trained in zen. Some people group him in with engaged buddhism because of a lot of work he's done with refugees. Grouping him in with mahayana would certainly not be unfair. While I'm not a student of his, he's certainly very hard not to admire & respect. I especia...

Dear Members, http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/089/2/1/BUDDHA_TRANSPORT_by_VISHNU108.gif Buddha's advice/dhamma truly work for my family, my husband/daughter love me so very much. We love/trust each other. We have happy family-life. That's why we so love the Buddhas/Dhamma :heart: Husband and...

Great courage.

How sad.

But the socio/political position of gay and lesbian Buddhists..or single parent Buddhists, or Buddhists married to non Buddhists are not covered by the Buddha's injunctions Khalil Bodhi. So in regard to these specifics social mores in relationship terms.... neither conventional interpretations of D...

Ah, just what every religion needs - a scripture reinforcing the traditional subservient position of women. This advice may not be flavour of the month in western culture, but every team has to have a captain & every business has to have a boss. Marriage is a partnership & like any other pa...

Thanks Cooran.

I don't really understand this. As far as I know the Thai tradition has always had nuns. Some are only part-time & when they leave the temple go home to husbands, kids & jobs. But some are full-time nuns. The only visible difference being the shaved heads of the full-time nuns. The ones that...

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Thanks for the picture. My youngest daughter will love it.

Thanks for posting all of these beautiful stories. The kids especially like it when I read them to them & also like looking at the illustrations.
P.S. I've had a request for a picture of the elephant, if this is possible it would be much appreciated.

It may also be true that speech that inflicts harm on oneself is not Right Speech, ie "because of my illness, I have no intention of being a stellar employee," or, "you the interviewer, you, Sir, are profoundly ugly and I'm afraid if I worked here I would stare at that wart on your n...

Those are good. Some of my tales are similar: I order a vegetarian meal and get fish (as if fish are not animals, yes not mammals, but still members of the Animal Kingdom). One waiter asked, "but why??" when I asked what vegetarian options there were. "So you only eat fish and chicke...

My money would be on fast-food.