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Everyday Buddhism 102 - Encore of The Boundless Heart of Bodhicitta

In the spirit of the holiday season, I am re-releasing a popular episode from 2019: The Boundless Heart - Bodhicitta. It is my wish that we all try to practice being a Bodhisattva during this holiday season … Starting with me! ;) Stating the obvious, it's been a rough 7 years or so. Years marked by war, pandemic, social injustice, tribalism and, overall, something called high conflict made popular by Amanda Ripley's book of the same name, where conflict is the ruling energy and that leads to the stress, fear, anxiousness, and despair most of us have been feeling. She writes: The challenge of our time is to mobilize great masses of people to make change without dehumanizing one another. Not just because it’s morally right but because it works. Lasting change, the kind that seeps into people’s hearts, has only ever come about through a combination of pressure and good conflict. Both matter. That’s why, over the course of history, nonviolent movements have been more than twice as likely to succeed as violent ones. It with this in mind I offer the replay of this 2019 episode, a reflection on bodhicitta, the good heart —something we can all practice even if we don't participate in nonviolent movements or the good conflict Amanda Ripley refers to. I know it's been far too easy for me to react in anger when I'm really just afraid and to dismiss instead of disagreeing, which is a dehumanizing activity. So, in the spirit of holiday peace, good will, and reflection, I will remember the bodhicitta. Bodhicitta characterizes the path of a Mahayana practitioner. It is Bodhicitta that creates a Bodhisattva and it is Bodhicitta that ultimately creates a Buddha. In Tibetan, compassion is translated as the nobility or greatness of heart which implies wisdom, discernment, empathy, unselfishness, and abundant kindness. Bodhicitta is compassion working with a mind awakened by right view. It is the joining of compassion and emptiness. We'll examine how to use the Four Bodhisattva Vows to supercharge Right Intention with Right View and discover the same spacious freedom of a flower that blooms despite its circumstances. Please join me as you listen to this best of episode. Book by Amanda Ripley referenced in podcast (Amazon affiliate link): High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out Become a patron to support this podcast and get special member benefits, including a membership community and virtual sangha: https:www.patreon.comEverydayBuddhism If this podcast has helped you understand Buddhism or help in your everyday life, consider making a one-time donation here: https:donorbox.orgpodcast-donations Subscribe to my premium Substack feed and podcast, Words From My Teachers: Subscribe to Words From My Teachers Support the podcast through the affiliate link to buy the book, Everyday Buddhism: Real-Life Buddhist Teachings & Practices for Real Change: Buy the book, Everyday Buddhism

Amanda-ripley , Boundless-heart , Four-bodhisattva-vows , Right-intention , Right-view , High-conflict , Why-we-get-trapped , How-we-get-out-become , Words-from-my-teachers , Everyday-buddhism , Real-life-buddhist-teachings

View: Compassion, empathy and grace is the greatest need of the hour

The bodhisattva ideal of great compassion – mahakaruna – found its greatest expression in Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, who is believed to have withheld personal deliverance to protect and help all others along the path. Representations of Avalokiteshvara in literature and art began appearing first in the Gandhara and Mathura regions of South Asia from the early centuries of the 1st millennium CE and next, wherever Buddhism travelled across Asia.

Ajanta , Maharashtra , India , Delhi , Kanheri , Mewat , Haryana , Manipur , Uttar-pradesh , Aurangabad , China , Ellora

Mahayana New Year 2023: Date, significance and all you need to know

Mahayana New Year is celebrated this year on January 7 by Buddhists around the world.

Mahayana-buddhism , New-year , Lord-buddha , Mahayana , Buddhist-new-year- , Buddha , Mahayana-new-year ,

Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown

>> in some forms of buddhism, you're very much -- this life does not matter at all. it's about the next. >> next. >> on the other extreme, it's all about today, right now. >> the form of buddhism practiced here is the middle path. >> middle path. >> mahayana, tantric buddhism. >> buddhists consider the next life. >> yes. and always your karma. >> and karma. >> whatever tragedies fall on you, death in the family, karma. it's all about an attitude. pick up and move on. >> once, his holiness the dalai lama told me, every day when you rise up, you try and be as good a human being as possible. that's more important than being religious.

Buddhism , Life , Forms , Extreme , Next , Yes , Karma , Path , Tantric-buddhism , Form , Mahayana , Family

Followers Mark 95th Continuation Day of Revered Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh

Monks and nuns of Plum Village share an update on Thay’s health

Thailand , Da-nang , Ðn-ng , Vietnam , Republic-of , Ho-chi-minh-city , H-chíinh , Netherlands , Tu-hieu , Yêbávm , France , San-francisco

A Reflection on the Intellectual and Socio-Cultural History of Buddhism in Myanmar

By Dipen Barua
Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar. From cgtn.com
The Centre of Buddhist Studies (CBS) at the University of Hong Kong hosted an online four-part lecture series on 15, 22, and 29 January, titled “Buddhism in Myanmar.” The main speakers were Ven. Dr. Khammai Dhammasamai, Dr. Aliex Ruiz-Falques, Ven. Nyanasami, and Dr. Pyi Phyo Kyaw. The lectures provided a fresh perspective on Buddhism in Myanmar, its history, and Pali scholarship over the centuries.
As a CBS staff member, I joined every lecture to learn more about the Burmese expression of Theravada Buddhism. Ven. Dhammasamai gave a lecture titled “An Overview of Buddhism in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar.” Dr. Ruiz-Falques and Ven. Nyanasamilankara delivered a talk on “Pali Studies in Myanmar,” and Dr. Pyi Phyo Kyaw discussed the topic of “Meditation in Myanmar.” She was also supposed to have given the fourth and final lecture, “Living Tradition of Abhidhamma Studies in Myanmar,” on 5 February, but it was canceled due to the military coup that unfolded in Myanmar during the month.

Arakan , Yangon , Myanmar , Orissa , India , Afghanistan , Thailand , Shwedagon-pagoda , Okkalapa , Mandalay , Spain , London

Engaged Buddhism: JTS Korea Distributes Emergency Flood Relief in Cambodia

By Craig Lewis
Buddhistdoor Global | 2021-02-24 |
Ven. Vy Sovechea, president of the SBUBB, at a gathering to distribute relief supplies. Image courtesy of SBUBB
The Buddhist humanitarian relief organization Join Together Society Korea (JTS Korea), founded by the renowned Korean Seon (Zen) monk Venerable Pomnyun Sunim, working in cooperation with the Preah Sihanouk Raja Buddhist University, Battambang Branch (SBUBB), has reported the successful distribution of emergency relief supplies in Cambodia’s Battambang Province in the wake of last year’s devastating floods.
In late 2020, the worst flooding in a decade inundated large areas of Cambodia, already reeling from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Between October and November, Cambodia was hit by 13 consecutive tropical storms, leading to widespread flash floods that deluged communities, causing landslides, unearthing mines and other unexploded war ordnance, and damaging or destroying farmland and infrastructure.

Philippines , Cambodia , Germany , Molave , Pagadian-city , Seoul , Soult-ukpyolsi , South-korea , Bangladesh , Nangka , Iligan , United-states

Engaged Buddhism: Jungto Society Sharing the Gift of Compassion this Winter

By Craig Lewis
Buddhistdoor Global | 2021-01-18 |
Ven. Pomnyun Sunim thanks farmers Gong Hee-jeong and Jo Jun-ho for donating two tonnes of sweet potatoes. Image courtesy of Jungto Society
Jungto Society, a South Korea-based Buddhist humanitarian organization founded by the renowned Seon (Zen) master and social activist Venerable Pomnyun Sunim, has carved a new avenue for spreading Buddhist compassion among vulnerable communities in Korea this winter, thanks to the good will of a generous couple who, inspired by Ven. Pomnyun Sunim’s teachings on organic agriculture and sustainable living, have found a second career as farmers.
Gong Hee-jeong and Jo Jun-ho, from the city of Jecheon in North Chungcheong Province, made the transition to a more self-sufficient lifestyle in 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic began spreading around the world. Their trial harvest last year netted them some two tonnes of sweet potatoes, which they donated to Jungto Society in recognition of the inspiration they received from Ven. Pomnyun Sunim.

Unmun-sa , Kyongsang-bukto , South-korea , Seoul , Soult-ukpyolsi , United-states , Jecheon , Ch-ungch-ong-bukto , Ansan , Kangwon-do , Gong-hee-jeong , Pomnyun-sunim

Japan to Open Ancient Buddhist Pagoda to the Public for the First Time in a Decade

major renovation in over 100 years. From japantimes.co.jp
Yakushi-ji, a Buddhist Temple in the former Japanese capital Nara, plans to offer the public access to its ancient East Pagoda for the first time in over 10 years, following the conclusion of the first major restoration program for the historic monument in more than a century.
The 1,300-year-old, three-tiered East Pagoda will be partially opened to the public from March through to 16 January next year, during which visitors to the historic monument, designated a national treasure by the Japanese government, will be allowed onto a platform around the pagoda’s entrance, from which they will be able to view the tower’s central pillar and ornate ceiling. The interior of the monument will remain off-limits for the time being, according to media reports.

Jito , Okayama , Japan , Tokyo , United-states , Kyoto , Saidai-ji , Japanese , American , Kitatsu-ikoma , Emperor-tenmu , Craig-lewis

Engaged Buddhism: JTS Korea Brings Warmth to Vulnerable Communities amid Winter Freeze

By Craig Lewis
Ven. Pomnyun Sunim, center, with JTS volunteers. Image courtesy of JTS Korea
The Buddhist humanitarian relief organization Join Together Society Korea (JTS Korea), founded by the renowned Korean Seon (Zen) monk Venerable Pomnyun Sunim, is spreading the warmth of compassion through a US$10,000 project to distribute coal briquettes to vulnerable households across South Korea as the country settles into another cold winter season, when temperatures can sometimes drop as low as –20ºC.
As recently as 30 years ago, lignite coal briquettes were the main fuel for heating and cooking in Korean households, and are still relied upon by some impoverished communities. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, donations of briquettes for underprivileged families nationwide have dropped to a third of levels recorded a year earlier.

Seoul , Soult-ukpyolsi , South-korea , Bangladesh , Philippines , Cheongju , Ch-ungch-ong-bukto , Gyeongbuk , Kyongsang-bukto , Korea , Pomnyun-sunim , Craig-lewis