Hello again, Inmates! For our Featured Image of Photos of the Week No. 11-21, we have found a picture that reminds us, more than anything else, of khaki. That light brown, possibly edible, always wearable fabric that is actually a color, the term stolen from Urdu and meaning “soil-colored,” according to Wikipedia. You can see that it’s a completely appropriate reference for the Boise Foothills in Idaho, which is where this photo of a 2020 Ural Gear Up was taken by @Dread earlier in May of this year. It is my first sidecar and the first time I took it off-road. It did great, and I’m looking forward to many adventures on it!
Cultural And Religious Authorities Have Bigger Tilapia To Fry 1 GURU EDITOR S NOTE published : 7 May 2021 at 04:00 1 A Thai dessert shop in Samut Songkhram got creative by introducing alua in various shapes of Buddha amulets, whose pictures of which went viral last week. Various cultural and religious authorities shock horror cried foul over this idea. (Photo: Madamchoops via Facebook) Samut Songkhram s Provincial Office of Buddhism and the Office of Culture agreed that the amulet dessert is inappropriate. They feared that once such a dessert went bad, cats and dogs would eat it and that s inappropriate because Buddha amulets are sacred objects for worshipping.
Religion Meets Climate Change CLIMATE POLITICS Global warming is the biggest challenge of all time. It impacts every living species. However, the inherent dangers are very difficult to comprehend, as such, people brush it off as one more issue in life that will somehow be handled, fixed, no worries, human ingenuity will prevail. But, what if it’s not that simple? Stuart Scott, executive producer of Facing Future.TV, which is part of United Planet Faith & Science Initiative (UPFSI.org) founded by Stuart, knows better than almost anybody that it’s not that simple. He is one of the few, the exceptional, to cast aside a comfortable lifestyle to take on the biggest issue of the 21
Thailand’s Bhikkhunis Want Recognition and Respect In a country with only a few hundred female monks in the Theravada branch of Buddhism, the lifestyle is quietly radical. Thailand s Bhikkhunis Want Recognition and Respect Copy Link The monks collect alms in Nakhon Pathom province. Courtesy Sireerat Chetsumon (Ven. Dhammaparipunna) In This Story The Venerable Dhammavanna, a former journalist living in Nakhon Pathom province, about 30 miles outside Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, now wakes each morning at 5:30. First, she meditates, then has a breakfast of rice. Dressed in saffron robes, she tackles her morning work cleaning, welcoming visitors, even attending to IT snafus. She dines again at 11, and then takes classes in Buddhist teachings in the afternoon before completing community service tasks and winding down her day with chanting. She lives at Songdhammakalyani Monastery under the Venerable Dhammananda, the temple’s most senior monk.