OneSangha

And I’m afraid my post came across as harsher than I’d meant it. Al is a dear long time friend, and hassling him has been an occasional hobby of mine for a great many years But it is hard going, starting a new community, and it’s kind of sad when it doesn’t take off [...]

Oh, give Al a break – the site has been around for a while, and despite his efforts it hasn’t yet really taken off. We actually have a reasonable number of members – probably the next thing really is to start posting interesting questions and conversation starters. And to contribute to conversations. (And possibly work [...]

I was intrigued by your blog post when I first saw it. Mentioned it to K, but… well, it’s been fourteen months and a bit since we started sitting together every evening. That was in addition to the morning bit, and neither of us particularly had anything we were looking to add. (We had one [...]

I liked the article and its generally welcoming tone. But I feel like the comments here are wandering a bit into an unnecessary dichotomy. I know a lot of people have out of, or been exposed to, environments in which there is a clergy laiety separation in which there is a small group of people [...]

Why do you think it should be a morning practice? I seem to be a morning person – much to the despair of my mother, who was perplexed when coming to down find me watching the trees, lake and mountains out of our livingroom window every morning when I was about four. A lot of [...]

Just a note on translation – would something like a wiki make sense? I was just noticing that my undergrad department (Asian Languages and Literature at the U of WA) includes a Buddhist studies program. You’d think I’d have noticed considering how many Buddhists Studies folks took the guwen series, but I was pretty focused [...]

Orthogonally, there is a lot to be said here about the current level of silliness in intellectual property law. Is the issue here one of organization or commercialization? Not to say that either is without problems, but the issues around commodification seem relatively straightforward, where, at least to me, those around organization as such are [...]

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 [...]

I read it a lot more reliably when I’m home sick, I’m afraid. But yes, it’s one of the ones I try to follow. I’ve found a balance – maybe not a good one – between writing with some degree of immediacy and being adequately opaque about things that did not seem appropriate in the [...]