Do Buddhists Believe in God?
Unitarian Universalist Church, Rochester, MNSunday Sermon, February 17, 2008ROCHESTER, MN -- I picked the topic for today's sermon, ''Do Buddhists Believe in God?'', because I'm asked occasionally to...
View ArticleThe Buddha, the Dharma and the Media
MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin -- There is an old interviewing trick journalists use to get people to say things far more intimate than they planned to reveal. The trick works when the journalist, instead of...
View ArticleA Son of Minnesota Returns as a Worldly-Wise Monk
ROCHESTER, MN -- Jim Reynolds began his 40-minute talk to a group of Mayo Clinic physicians and health care workers last week by closing his eyes, putting his palms together and intoning an ancient...
View ArticleTeaching My Way to Nibbana
Students in my undergraduate journalism class at Carleton College would never imagine, I’ll bet, that I sincerely regard each one of them as being ethically spotless, all-knowing, absolutely perfect...
View ArticleIntentions
I've been reading Gil Fronsdal's wonderful book, "The Issue at Hand." Time after time I get to a sentence, I read it, and I need to put the book down to let the idea sink in for a while, even for a day...
View ArticleConcern for Everybody
Four paragraphs by a speech given by the author Karen Armstrong in 2007 pinpoints the problem that is the focus of this blog and proposes a logical solution (my underlines):"The modernity that gave us...
View ArticleThe Mind Whisperer (II)
Here are some of Cesar's Buddhist-flavored axioms for rehabilitating dogs and training people:“Send the brain to a calm, assertive state, and walk. Even if you take only one step, that is an...
View ArticleThe Mind Whisperer (I)
I'm sure I'm not the first person to notice what a natural Buddhist Cesar Milan -- AKA "The Dog Whisperer" on the National Geographic TV Channel -- stunningly, beautifully, is.On each episode, Cesar, a...
View ArticleThe Press and Spirituality
"The press really has a hard time telling you why what the Dalai Lama is doing and what Jimmy Swaggart is doing are different. It doesn’t really understand that. And that’s one of the most astonishing...
View ArticleProust Reads the News
"That abominable and sensual act called reading the newspaper, thanks to which all the misfortunes and cataclysms in the universe over the last twenty-four hours, the battles which cost the lives of...
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