portuguêsDharma Magazines
Someone asked me why I wouldn't subscribe to Tricycle magazine. Bottom-line, they are first and foremost journalists, not practitioners. Their refuge is provocative news, not benefit. Sometimes they publish stuff that, on my humble distorted afflictive emotion filtered view, violates precepts. Even so, sometimes there's good things there too.
Dharma Magazines are kind of the core of the Buddhist North-American Spiritual Supermarket. Samsara-dharma, political agitation in a bad sense, some sensationalism. It is both good and bad that it is not connected to any Dharma center, and sometimes the denunciations are valid. But there's also lots of empty polemics, things prepared to stir afflictive emotions, etc. Of course, also lots of good things.
Shambhala Sun would be my choice of "dharma magazine". Even though it is too far from perfect. I would stick with oral teachings, and good well recommended Dharma Books in second place.
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Tsog is one of the most important practices in Vajrayana, which involves gathering the offering, the wisdom beings, and the practitioners in a feast with food and drink substances, as well as wisdom entertainments for all the senses.
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One reason I was looking forward to reading Walter Isaacson's new biography of Steve Jobs was my hope that, as a sharp-eyed reporter, Isaacson would probe to… Exaggeration. People would like for someone hyped as Jobs to be on their side: most Buddhists have a sense of fashion towards their faith. So it is kind of a shame.
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Unreliable meditator Brent R. Oliver explores an unreliable source.
tzal.orgPrayer upon awakening
On of the tracks of Voice of Tibet, a CD by Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche, translated and transliterated for recitation. It is actually the beginning portion of the famous Karma Lingpa cycle's ngondro, which quaint orientalists used to call “Tibetan Book of the Dead”.
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