The Jewel in the Heart of the Lotus

engaged Buddhists have failed

Strong Lessons for
Engaged Buddhists

http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/buddhists.htm

Have you learned lessons only of those who admired you,
and were tender with you, and stood aside for you?
Have you not learned great lessons from those who reject you,
and brace themselves against you? or who treat you with
contempt, or dispute the passage with you?

— Whitman, “Stronger Lessons”

In the middle of the Vietnam war [...]

The Mystique of Transmission: On an Early Chan History and Its Contexts

 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0231136641 
The Mystique of Transmission is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji ( Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the little-known Bao Tang Chan school of Sichuan, and combines a sectarian history [...]

meditation MP3 files

binaural beats, the Schumann Resonance, brain waves, et al.
http://www.jetcityorange.com/meditation/ 
I meditate. My inspiration is Tibetan Buddhism as taught by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. As I began to sit, the nerd in me read up on things like the relaxation response, brain waves, binaural beats, the Schumann Resonance, psychoacoustics, entrainment, and neurofeedback. I created [...]

The Guru’s Of Hip Hop

The Guru’s Of Hip Hop
http://www.mbaproject.org/index.php?s=4Youth&c=News8230

This article appeared in Yoga Journal a while back. It’s one of the hottest articles ever on the subject, featuring Wu Tang, Russel Simmons, Heirogliphics, Afu Ra and more… You can download or read it here.

DOLLA LAMA

http://theworsthorse.net/dolla/dolla.html

“Going over the haters”
Art and answers from the one and only DOLLA.
A couple months ago, we got an email out of the blue from someone who seemed to be calling himself the “DOLLA LAMA.” He humbly introduced himself and asked that we check out his art. We did, and it was love at first [...]