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AIDS Walk (Again)
It’s that time of year again. The time of year where the weather turns nice so we can take long walks to raise money and awareness to combat diseases with which we should no longer be troubled. It’s kind of depressing to me that it’s gotten so that there’s a season set aside for this–a… — read more
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Kleptomania
I briefly mentioned the new Kleptones album a couple of weeks ago. Since then, I got a chance to hear the episode of the Radio Clash podcast that included an interview with “Eric Kleptone,” the leader of the Kleptones. Hearing his perspective on his efforts was fascinating. It turns out that he was in a… — read more
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I’m Certainly Happy…
Births in my family are infrequent. My brother and I were born nearly forty years ago, and we have three cousins who were born fifteen or so years ago. That’s it for descendants of either set of grandparents. And in my wife’s family, there was a cousin born about fifteen years ago. Where most families… — read more
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Make-Your-Own Heart Sutra
Tomorrow night is the last meeting of my class on emptiness. At last week’s meeting, the instructor suggested–I’m not quite sure how ironically–that we each write our own Heart Sutra. Several of my fellow students encouraged me to actually try it, but I didn’t think I’d have the time (spending the weekend basting in my… — read more
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I’m an Uncle
Cassius Marcellus (I really, really hope he doesn’t have a problem with sibilance) was born this evening at almost exactly 5:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time, and everyone’s well. I wish I was out there with them, rather than in the middle of a weekend getting intimate with my anger (yet again). Does anyone have advice… — read more
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The Zipper Chronicles
There have been several among us who’ve parlayed their Weblogs into books. Now my brother-in-law is kind of doing the opposite. He wrote a book and has turned it into a Weblog (though he may yet turn it back into a book). And unlike most of the people venturing into the world of self-publication in… — read more
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Indivisibility
“Just for fun,” Marijo posted a brief comment on my thoughts about form and emptiness. Brief though that comment was, it was brilliant, and it opened the discussion out in so many different directions that I couldn’t adequately respond in a comment. In fact, I don’t know that I’ll be able to adequately respond here,… — read more
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Après le Déluge
In response to the deluge of spam comments that I’m receiving on this Weblog, I’m reluctantly going to require people to register to post comments here. Because of WordPress‘s moderation, no spam comments actually appeared on the site, but the constant flood of spam comments to be moderated and the e-mails notifying me of them… — read more
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There’s Nothing Like a Good Translation Controversy
The portion of the Heart Sutra that we’re discussing in class next week reads: Therefore, Shariputra, since the bodhisattvas have no attainment, they abide by means of prajnaparamita. Since there is no obscuration of mind, there is no fear. They transcend falsity and attain complete nirvana. The end of that section sounds wrong to me.… — read more
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Form is Emptiness, Emptiness is Form
Red Pine has this to say on the line “form is emptiness and emptiness is form” in his translation of and commentary on The Heart Sutra: That form is is empty was one of the Buddha’s earliest and most frequent pronouncements. But in the light of Prajnaparamita, form is not simply empty, it is so… — read more
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