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Comment by Mataji Gauribrata, Rev Eva on January 5, 2012 at 12:19pm

According to the UN, over 50 million girls in India are missing: having been aborted, killed, or neglected to death simply because they are female. In some regions, no baby girl has survived in years. Help us make a difference.

Peacenext: http://www.peacenext.org/group/protectgirls

Websites: http://www.protectgirls.org

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwEhKu3T51Q&feature=player_embedded

http://forumonpublicpolicy.com/summer09/archivesummer09/jackson.pdf

www.motherstrust.org

Comment by Nugroho Angkasa on March 20, 2011 at 2:27am

Anand Krishna is doing hunger strike as a protest againts the injustice law in Indonesia. This non violence action has entered the 12th day on Sunday, March 20, 2011. The founder of Anand Ashram Foundation (affiliated with the United Nations) released a testimony on March 13, 2011. This is the testimony from the father of 2 children:

1. There is a greater purpose than my detention. However, this violates the innocence presumption's principle. Yet human rights and Indonesian basic law guaranteed the freedom of every citizen.

How can I be detained if so far I have never been absence in the court? I always cooperative eventhough my health condition is poor as known by the Prosecutor, High Attorney and the Judges. In contrary, those who have slandered me did not attend the court frequently.

2. The aim of my hunger strike is in order that the state and this nation can see clearly how the law and justice can be tricked by some people who have positions for the reason: "this is our authority".

3. We need a total transformation and not just a legal reform.

4. I am disappointed with the judges and prosecutors with the system that does not run and still be able oppresed anybody.

5. I'm not angry, but once again I am disapointed. And this hunger strike solely supata all that is wrong can be corrected by upholding human rights and Justice.

http://www.gopetition.com/petition/43856.html

Comment by Grigori Rho Gharveyn on March 8, 2011 at 2:42pm

Peace, brothers and sisters,

While we may not be a Bhuddist by some people's definitions, we recognize that the roots of much of our spiritual paths and cultural choices have their origins in Bhuddism.

We owe a deep debt of gratitude to all the Bhuddist peoples who have crossed our paths in life, for we have been deeply enriched by their love, nurture, characters, and philosophies.

One lesson among many...

Some of our Bhuddist friends practiced a ritual which might have been called something that sounded like 'shockadoo'.  We seem to forget their precise term, but we recall it had to do with chanting together to reach a person's spiritual consciousness remotely and induct them into their Bhuddist circles by inspiring them to approach them and ask to be involved.

We see that this method has a grain of what might be divine inspiration; what we have learned is that all people's hearts resonate with the hearts of all other people, and that each person's spiritual awareness is excited in the presence of another person's spiritual awareness.

Regardless of how people are trained to express their spiritual awareness, (and even crass commercialism can be such an expression, it would seem), people seem to automatically attune to one another to share their spiritual awareness in a communion that inspires all participants to grow; particularly, to grow more freely along their own natural paths and choices.

How we learned this and so much more from our Bhuddist friends remains a bit of a mystery, but we are grateful for Bhuddists everywhere for their respectful conservatorship of their inspirational teachings, traditions, and being.

Thank you all.

 

Namaste

 

Comment by Tashi Nyima on December 4, 2010 at 4:00pm

Please also consider supporting the bid of Dallas-Fort Worth for the 2014 Parliament of Religions. Should DFW be selected, Buddhists of all lineages could meet there and work toward establishing a Pan American Buddhist Network.

Should the beautiful city of Guadalajara be selected as the site of PWR 2014, let's also plan on meeting there. The US-Mexico border is an artificial political artifact. It has moved before, and probably will move again...

Comment by Tashi Nyima on December 4, 2010 at 3:54pm

Continuing with the introductions/disclosures, as suggested:

I'm a monk in the Jonangpa lineage (Great Middle Way, Skt. Maha Madhyamaka, Tib. dbUma chenpo). However, on the advice of my Root Teacher, i took Refuge from a Kagyu Lama and Bodhisattva Vows from a Gelukpa Lama. In the spirit of Rime, His intention was for me to have samaya(commitments) with Masters of different lineages, thus precluding sectarianism.

It is a wonderful suggestion to sponsor teachings with different Masters, or at least encourage members of the Network to attend those that are already scheduled.

I understand that fidelity to a lineage is important, and am not advocating eclecticism. However, true fidelity is born from understanding what practices are most beneficial and suitable for each of us, and not from 'fencing ourselves in'.

Furthermore, those who have Bodhisattva Vows have pledged to open all the Gates of Dharma for sentient beings to pass through. How will we achieve this, if we refuse to enter those Gates ourselves?

I have done retreats with Kagyu Lamas, and next June will participate in a Lamdre retreat with HH Sakya Trizin, the head of the Sakya lineage.

Comment by Tashi Nyima on December 3, 2010 at 10:18am

om svasti

Very happy to join this group! America is a fairly 'new' Dharma land, and yet there is so much sectarian animus.

May all the lineages of the Buddha Dharma flourish!

mangalam

Comment by Reverend Cheen on September 10, 2010 at 7:38pm

Call for Ambassadors! Get involved with the Council of Parliament of World Religions!

Comment by Reverend Cheen on December 29, 2009 at 4:58am

Phra, I've heard of this issue of using the name of the Buddha etc. for bars in Southeast Asia, not yet in the U.S. though. I only know of bands and TV programs or movies that use Buddhist terms. The effect of which, so far as I can tell, seems to popularize some terms that people may or may not recognize as being Buddhist.

Alisa, hi there! Good idea. I'll start. I'm with the Mahayana Chan (Zen) tradition but has roots in the Theravadan vipassana practice and further back, as a baptized Lutheran attending church weekly as a little girl. :) Guess you didn't want me to go back that far. I'm in general very open and non-sectarian and where I currently reside, Seattle, is just such a community!

Comment by Phra Satit on December 22, 2009 at 3:40am

Dear Friends

Have you got the issue of people using Budda name or budda image in an unappropriated way. Such as put Buddha statue in a Bar beer or name the Bar as Buddha Bar. How can we stop this?

Comment by Alisa Roadcup on December 21, 2009 at 11:50am

Hello fellow American Buddhists! I am curious - which tradition/lineage are people from and which sangha's where? I propose that we make a special effort to support and get to know each other, as those who've shared the Parliament experience together.
I am from the Tibetan Shambhalan tradition, which has its roots in the Karma Kagyu and Nyingma respectively. I live in Chicago and am a member of the Chicago Shambhala Meditation center.

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