From 19dc224689133cd34050a5aab51c19a5e0d77bfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Khemarato Bhikkhu Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 10:53:32 +0700 Subject: [PATCH] a couple days worth --- _content/av/beginning_tuong-phuong.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ _content/av/invocation_kaneko-w-todd.md | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ _content/essays/chanting_pluralism.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ _content/essays/dalai-lama_dhammika.md | 2 +- _content/essays/mandala_pluralism.md | 17 +++++++++++++++++ _courses/form.md | 9 ++++++--- _data/course_order.yml | 2 +- 7 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 _content/av/beginning_tuong-phuong.md create mode 100644 _content/av/invocation_kaneko-w-todd.md create mode 100644 _content/essays/chanting_pluralism.md create mode 100644 _content/essays/mandala_pluralism.md diff --git a/_content/av/beginning_tuong-phuong.md b/_content/av/beginning_tuong-phuong.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6e9ea9bae5 --- /dev/null +++ b/_content/av/beginning_tuong-phuong.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: "The Beginning of the Beginning" +authors: + - "Phuong T. Vuong" +subcat: poetry +reader: "Ada Limón" +external_url: "https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2022/10/13/783-the-beginning-of-the-beginning" +course: wider +tags: + - migration + - past +year: 2022 +month: oct +series: slowdown +number: 783 +minutes: 5 +--- + +> Who decides where a river starts? ... diff --git a/_content/av/invocation_kaneko-w-todd.md b/_content/av/invocation_kaneko-w-todd.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..187496b72d --- /dev/null +++ b/_content/av/invocation_kaneko-w-todd.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +title: "Invocation" +authors: + - "W. Todd Kaneko" +subcat: poetry +reader: "Ada Limón" +external_url: "https://www.slowdownshow.org/episode/2021/10/12/521-invocation" +course: places # solidly +tags: + - poetry +year: 2021 +month: oct +series: slowdown +number: 521 +minutes: 5 +--- + +> Remember me, my father sings +to the forest... diff --git a/_content/essays/chanting_pluralism.md b/_content/essays/chanting_pluralism.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..00b29fc4e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/_content/essays/chanting_pluralism.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: "Chanting the Sutras" +authors: + - "The Pluralism Project" +external_url: "https://pluralism.org/chanting-the-sutras" +drive_links: + - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aY_D-1a1Tm_6O1PS9C-R4QbXA8hSq_CJ/view?usp=drivesdk" +course: form +tags: + - meditation +year: 2013 +publisher: "Harvard University" +address: "Boston" +pages: 2 +--- + +Chanting is a form of meditation practiced by nearly all the Buddhist traditions. diff --git a/_content/essays/dalai-lama_dhammika.md b/_content/essays/dalai-lama_dhammika.md index 71aa35cecd..50a3870f3c 100644 --- a/_content/essays/dalai-lama_dhammika.md +++ b/_content/essays/dalai-lama_dhammika.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ file_links: year: 2011 course: tibetan tags: - - buddhism + - form base_value: 0.2 pages: 3 --- diff --git a/_content/essays/mandala_pluralism.md b/_content/essays/mandala_pluralism.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..a930e330a3 --- /dev/null +++ b/_content/essays/mandala_pluralism.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +title: "Creating a Mandala" +authors: + - "The Pluralism Project" +external_url: "https://pluralism.org/creating-a-mandala" +drive_links: + - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aaGj_7sED68rIgxiHq3UUg9o6O01_BG5/view?usp=drivesdk" +course: form +tags: + - tibetan +year: 2013 +publisher: "Harvard University" +address: "Boston" +pages: 2 +--- + +> The Tibetan term for mandala, kyinkor, means “center and surrounding environment.” The center with its surrounding geometric designs, its doors, its guardians, and its gods—all become charged with the order and the energy of the whole cosmos. diff --git a/_courses/form.md b/_courses/form.md index 87739bae80..85eddd143c 100644 --- a/_courses/form.md +++ b/_courses/form.md @@ -510,11 +510,11 @@ Just as in Part 1 of the course, in part 2, we will read some additional essays #### Cintita Chapter 5: The History of the Sāsana {% include content_blurb.html category="av" slug="end-of-the-buddhist-utopia_sujato" %} -- Bhante Sujato starts by asking why Buddhism died out in India, and what factors will lead to the end of our own (present day) "Buddhist Utopia" +- Bhante Sujato asks why Buddhism died out in India, and what factors might lead to the end of our own (present day) "Buddhist Utopia" [CBT] Th.191 {:.mb-0} -- The Buddha gives his answer to what will cause the sāsana to survive or not. +- The Buddha gives his answer to what will cause the sāsana to thrive or not. {% include content_blurb.html category="essays" slug="monasticism-and-western-adaption_karma-lekshe-tsomo" %} - Buddhist monasticism faces many challenges as it comes West, especially for nuns, but looking to history and our principles can help us navigate the future. @@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ Just as in Part 1 of the course, in part 2, we will read some additional essays [CBT] Th.95 - Ratana Sutta {:.mb-0} -- This sutta in praise of faith in the triple gem is often chanted in Theravāda countries as a magical blessing. +- This sutta in praise of faith in the Triple Gem is often chanted in Theravāda countries as a (somewhat magical) blessing. #### Cintita Chapter 7: Negotiating the Dharma @@ -592,6 +592,9 @@ A few more words are also due on the subject of restraint, beyond the five prece {:.mb-0} - On how to use meditation as an antidote to greed, hatred, and restlessness. +{% include content_blurb.html category="essays" slug="chanting_pluralism" %} +- Chanting is a particularly common form of meditation for many (most?) Buddhists. + [CBT] V.55–56 {:.mb-0} - Does this admonishment to practice solitude contrast with the emphasis on the spiritual community we read earlier? How do you explain this tension? diff --git a/_data/course_order.yml b/_data/course_order.yml index 762fd17135..d652e0e6c0 100644 --- a/_data/course_order.yml +++ b/_data/course_order.yml @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ - buddhism -- function - form +- function - ebts - philosophy - ethics