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Some interesting Buddhist sites

Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
This site has been very useful. Both transmitted teachers and lay interact there.

It's more serious and formal in orientation and focus with provisions accommodating informal practitioners as well.

http://www.zenforuminternational.org/


Treeleaf Zendo helps those with little or no access to a physical facility, and staffed by transmitted teachers. It's pretty much a virtual online sangha, including complete meditation sessions and dokusan, and as such does fall under criticism from those who feel a physical presence is needed as opposed to long distance interaction and relationships with your teacher.

I see both sides here making good points, yet in the end, I see it as being more of a good thing for those who tend to prefer a more formal platform of guidence short of attending an actual facility, as opposed to lone wolfing a Zen practice on their own through trial and error.



http://www.treeleaf.org/
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
From "Glimpse of the Day" -

"Training" the mind does not in any way mean forcibly subjugating or brainwashing the mind. To train the mind is first to see directly and concretely how the mind functions, a knowledge that you derive from spiritual teachings and through personal experience in meditation practice. Then you use that understanding to tame the mind and work with it skillfully, to make it more and more pliable, so that you can become master of your mind and employ it to its fullest and most beneficial end.

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