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Public Group active 6 days, 4 hours agoThis groups is for all members of the OneSangha site. Use it for general discussion, information sharing, and so forth.
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D. A. Rice joined the group General 6 days, 4 hours ago · View
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Laura Neal joined the group General 1 week, 5 days ago · View
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Al Jigen Billings posted on the forum topic NYT: Sex Scandal Has U.S. Buddhists Looking Within in the group General: 2 weeks ago · View
I blogged about this as well today at http://www.openbuddha.com/2010/08/22/zen-sex-scandal-goes-mainstream/.
It is deplorable.
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Friday started the forum topic NYT: Sex Scandal Has U.S. Buddhists Looking Within in the group General: 2 weeks ago · View
From the New York Times, August 20, 2010: “Sooner or later, every traditional faith has to confront sexual impropriety by its spiritual leaders: extramarital sex, or sex with the wrong people (members of the congregation, minors) or, for supposedly celibate clergy, any sex at all. “But there are great differences in how religions handle these [...]
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Friday posted on the forum topic Killing and Bioethics Resources? in the group General: 2 weeks, 6 days ago · View
On another forum, someone recently posted that the Buddha’s guidelines about right livelihood are so strict that, accordingly, the only way one could feed oneself would be either to forage on wild plants or to beg. (I’m sorry I can’t site the passage verbatim or direct you to the particular scripture.) I’m sorry I can’t [...]
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Catherine Kehl posted on the forum topic How do we get people to use this site and make it better? in the group General: 3 weeks, 4 days ago · View
I really don’t – I’ve been trying to mention it online, but that’s mostly making me realize that I’m not as active online as I once was. (I’ve also mentioned it to the groups I participate in, but that’s not so many people, and many of them are rather less involved online than even I [...]
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Al Jigen Billings started the forum topic How do we get people to use this site and make it better? in the group General: 3 weeks, 5 days ago · View
Does anyone have any suggestions how we could double or triple the number of people using this site? How do we make it better and more attractive?
We don’t have self-sustaining numbers yet and, as people know, building a new community is pretty hard.
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Al Jigen Billings started the forum topic Robert Aitken Roshi is dead in the group General: 1 month ago · View
Robert Aitken Roshi died last night. This is a sad moment for American Zen. He had a profound effect on people.
http://robertaitken.blogspot.com/2010/08/goodbye-dad-grandfather-papa-friend.html
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Al Jigen Billings posted on the forum topic Killing and Bioethics Resources? in the group General: 1 month ago · View
I have no suggestions, unfortunately. Maybe someone else will.
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Catherine Kehl started the forum topic Killing and Bioethics Resources? in the group General: 1 month ago · View
Does anyone have any recommendations for intelligent treatments of bioethics from a Buddhist perspective? There are a few books available (Damien Keown’s book comes to mind, though it looks like it might be much more about medical practice than research) but not much information about the books. I’m a neurobiologist, I work with animals. (Sea [...]
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Alexander Belousov joined the group General 1 month ago · View
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Charlotte Moore joined the group General 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
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Darren Liddle posted an update in the group General: 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
Hi Folks ,
Thanks for the invite to this online Sangha
My name is Darren and I’m from Brisbane in Australia . I don’t follow any set tradition but as I’ve only been discovered meditation a couple of years back and I’m still just getting the hang of just sitting. I’ve looked into a few different styles and a collected the odd book but yet to define what works for me besides the actual shutting up and getting some cushion time . I did do a few of the courses at the local Rigpa center but the rigidity of that tradition was just not working with the amount of questions I had , that for them was too far outside the box. I started with the Dharma punx books then into a little Jack Kornfield , Brad Warner and Daniel Ingram .I’ve just moved to one of the larger cities over here and found there is a large range of Zen Centers , planning to head down to the http://www.openway.org.au soon for the next info night.
Thanks for joining and participating, Darren. There are people with some excellent backgrounds here. I’m familiar (and have read at least some of) the work of the people that you mention. I know that others have as well.
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Darren Liddle joined the group General 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
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Keith Angilly posted an update in the group General: 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
Hi Al,
Thank you for starting this. I suspect there is a bit of ”wait and see” going on.
Anyway, maybe it would help to introduce ourselves. My name is Keith and I have been practicing in the Kwan Um School of Zen tradition since 1992. I live on the East Coast of the USA and practice at the New Haven Zen Center. One thing I miss about e-sangha was the chance to hear from traditions outside of Zen. Hopefully, this site will fill that gap. GL and thanks for practicing!
Wait and see, and in my case ”want to write, something to write? uh… damn, must go back and work on quals”.
Good luck! We are probably better off not talking too much anyway.
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Al Jigen Billings started the forum topic Questions and thoughts? in the group General: 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
Does anyone have any questions or thoughts? So far, people are signing up but no one is really doing much on the site as of yet.
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Keith Angilly joined the group General 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
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Al Jigen Billings posted on the forum topic Saying Hi in the group General: 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
Thanks for checking us out. I have high hopes for this.
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