Awakening the Bodhisattva

Awakening the Bodhisattva

BY TAIGEN DAN LEIGHTON, ANNE KLEIN, EJO MCMULLEN AND VENERABLE PANNAVATI| SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

http://www.lionsroar.com/awakening-the-bodhisattva/

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Lion's roar: What is karma

http://www.lionsroar.com/panel-the-law-of-karma/

What is karma and how does it work

The Buddha taught that because of karma, beings are bound to the ever-turning wheel of rebirth. Only when a person stops believing in the existence of a permanent and real self can he or she become free from karma. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Jan Chozen Bays, and Jeffrey Hopkins discuss what that means.

Creating a Good Ground for Meditation

http://www.lionsroar.com/creating-a-good-ground-for-meditation/?utm_source=Lion%27s+Roar+Newsletter&utm_campaign=9a0251da2a-LR_Weekend_Read_May_13_20165_12_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1988ee44b2-9a0251da2a-20974389&goal=0_1988ee44b2-9a0251da2a-20974389

Creating a Good Ground for Meditation

BY THANISSARO BHIKKHU| MAY 1, 2004

Meditation isn’t a one-way street—you can’t just meditate and your life will get better. You have to change the way you live to improve your meditation. Thanissaro Bhikkhu outlines five principles of the ethical, restrained life conducive to meditation practice.

Tricycle : Right Speech

http://www.tricycle.com/onpractice/right-speech-how-workable-is-it

Also
http://www.tricycle.com/web-exclusive/family-dharma-right-speech-reconsidered?page=0,0

Right Speech

Views of the third step of the Eightfold Path from: Susan Piver Browne, Mudita Nisker, Roger Jackson, Donald S. Lopez, Jr., Mirabai Bush and Stephen Smith

Ethics, culture and relativism: Some reflections on teaching medical ethics in Sri Lanka.

Ethics, culture and relativism: Some reflections on teaching medical ethics in Sri Lanka.

February 9, 2016, 5:59 pm 

By S. N. Arseculeratne, R. Simpson, P. D. Premasiri, P. V. R. Kumarasiri

This paper is the first of two that set out to explore issues that arise at the interface between globalised systems of biomedicine and bioethics on the one hand and non-western traditions of medicine, healing and ethics on the other. At this interface, fundamental questions of relativism and context are in evidence. Here we offer a preliminary overview of these questions in relation to medical education in Sri Lanka and attempts by local scholars to develop curricula that incorporate indigenous traditions in ways that are both appropriate and realistic. In the paper, we argue for approaches that go beyond simply accumulating and juxtaposing knowledge of different traditions.

http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=140047

http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=140374

http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=140420

A Simple Guide to Life

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bogoda/wheel397.html

A Simple Guide to Life

Gift Giving and Generosity

https://www.upaya.org/2015/12/byrnes-giving-and-generosity/

Gift Giving and Generosity

by Dharma Podcasts on December 28, 2015 in Podcasts

Speaker: Joshin Brian Byrnes
Recorded: Wednesday Dec 23, 2015

Wiki: Buddhist Ethics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhist_ethics

Buddhist Ethics

Contents

  

• 1Foundations
  • 1.1Karma and Rebirth
  • 1.2The Four Noble Truths
  • 1.3Precepts
  • 1.4Key values and virtues
• 2Issues
  • 2.1Killing
    • 2.1.1War
    • 2.1.2Abortion
    • 2.1.3Suicide and Euthanasia
    • 2.1.4Capital punishment
  • 2.2Animals and the environment
    • 2.2.1Vegetarianism
    • 2.2.2Environment
  • 2.3Gender issues
  • 2.4Relationships
  • 2.5Sexuality
    • 2.5.1Sexual orientation
  • 2.6Economic ethics
• 3See also
• 4References
• 5External links

Robert Thurman: "Buddhist Ethics" | Talks at Google

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=rlcHaZrpHWY

Robert Thurman: "Buddhist Ethics" | Talks at Google

Published on Oct 30, 2015

Prof. Thurman discusses Buddhist ethics, which he translates as the ten-fold path of skillful and unskillful action. Instead of right and wrong, Professor Thurman urges us to consider ethical behavior as any action that helps us evolve on the path toward enlightenment. He provides a blue print for those seeking to bring spiritual values into the workplace and beyond.

GYOBUTSUJI AND THE ENVIRONMENT: PRACTICING WITH ALL BEINGS

https://ancientwayjournal.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/gyobutsuji-and-the-environment-practicing-with-all-beings/?blogsub=confirming#subscribe-blog

GYOBUTSUJI AND THE ENVIRONMENT: PRACTICING WITH ALL BEINGS
BY SHORYU BRADLEY

A few years ago a person who had visited Gyobutsuji’s website asked me how I got the idea to establish a “green” monastery. The questions surprised me a bit because I had not previously considered being “green” a particularly notable feature of Gyobutsuji, although allowing the monastery to be as environmentally conscientious as possible has indeed been one of my primary aspirations. But it had not really occurred to me that a contemporary Zen monastery would be anything other than sensitive to its impact on our delicate Earth. 

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: A NEW APPROACH TO WORKING WITH SEXUAL OFFENDERS

https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/27315/1/Dafoe_Terra_L_201103_MA_thesis.pdf

MINDFULNESS MEDITATION: A NEW APPROACH TO WORKING WITH SEXUAL OFFENDERS

by Terra Dafoe

Village Women : Care of the Dying

http://www.tricycle.com/special-section/village-women

Village Women : Care of the Dying

Bringing a Buddhist view to the care of the dying was the subject of five recent interviews conducted by Mary Talbot, Executive Editor of Tricycle, and combined into the following discussion.

Healing Rituals for Miscarriages/abortions

Rituals for Miscarriages/abortions

http://www.npr.org/2015/08/15/429761386/adopting-a-buddhist-ritual-to-mourn-miscarriage-abortion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuko_kuy%C5%8D

http://www.esolibris.com/articles/buddhism/buddhism_abortion.php

https://web.archive.org/web/20040503125604/http://www.nanzan-u.ac.jp/SHUBUNKEN/publications/jjrs/pdf/135.pdf

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/buddhism/buddhistethics/abortion.shtml

http://www.pregnancyoptions.info/pdfs/EmotionalAndSpiritualResolution.pdf

http://novamagazine.com.au/article_archive/2014/2014-06-healing-lost-pregnancy.html

Access to Insight: Buddhism and Sex

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/walshe/wheel225.html

Buddhism and Sex

by

M. O'C. Walshe

© 2006

Alternate format: 

Preface

This is the third, further revised version of the original Sangha Guide on Buddhism and Sex published by the English Sangha Trust, Dhammpadipa, London NW3. The greater part of it also appeared in the journal Sangha. As one of the older generation, I have felt very conscious of my temerity in trying to write something on this subject which younger people might be willing to read. In this connection, I am very grateful to Alan and Jacqui James for giving me the benefit of their criticism, a task for which they are doubly qualified, being both wise in the Dhamma and at the same time much closer in age to the younger generation who may read this. But the opinions expressed here are, of course, my own.

— M.O'C Walshe
March 1975

Mindfulness and Ethics: Attention, Virtue and Perfection

http://info-buddhism.com/Mindfulness-and-Morality-J-Garfield.html

Mindfulness and Ethics: Attention, Virtue and Perfection

by J. GarfieldMindfulness is regarded by all scholars and practitioners of all Buddhist traditions as essential not only for the development of insight, but also for the cultivation and maintenance of ethical discipline.

Thinking through Texts: Toward a Critical Buddhist Theology of Sexuality

http://info-buddhism.com/Buddhism-Sexuality-Cabezon.html

Thinking through Texts: Toward a Critical Buddhist Theology of Sexuality

Frederick P. Lenz Distinguished Lecture, Naropa University, September 23, 2008

Real Life Documentary: Animals and The Buddha (Buddhism Full Documentary Film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLW0kkqwrEI

Real Life Documentary: Animals and The Buddha (Buddhism Full Documentary Film)

Published on Apr 22, 2015

Real Life Documentary: Animals and The Buddha (Buddhism Full Documentary Film)

2500 years ago a men sat under a tree determined not to budge until he saw all there was to see. When unlighted the Buddha spent forty five years teaching a new and revolutionary way of seeing the world. The essence of his teachings called the Dharma was articulated in the four Noble Truths where he taught the path to the end of all suffering. Central to these teachings was an important notion that the Dharma is not just about the humans, rather it includes all of the beings who share the earth.

During this Buddhism documentary, we will explore what Buddha taught us about animals and our relationship to them. His beliefs are so relevant to our nowadays life even thousands of years have passed.

This powerful and important film features interviews with world-renowned monastics and lay teachers including Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi, Jetsuma (Ven. Master) Tenzin Palmo, Ven. Bhante Gunaratana (Bhante G), Christopher Titmuss, Ven. Geshe Phelgye, teachers from Spirit Rock Meditation Center and many others. From these interviews, we will understand how Buddha perceived animals and how Buddhism followers believe animals should be treated.

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Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche about Homosexuality in Buddhism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA_Kp9v9ZtA

Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche about Homosexuality in Buddhism

First time one of the highest renowned teacher of Tibetan Buddhism is talking about homosexuality in buddhism.

and

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/24/george-takei-buddhism_n_6535306.html

George Takei: Buddhism ‘Made A Lot Of Sense For Me'

BUDDHIST EDUCATION AND PEDAGOGY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

http://www.bauswj.org/wp/wjonline/buddhist-education-and-pedagogy-challenges-and-opportunities/

BUDDHIST EDUCATION AND PEDAGOGY: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

By Ambassador Dato Dr.G.K.Ananda Kumaraseri

The emerging profit-driven global economy is guided by unbridled development and gigantism. Such an economy is also coming under ever increasing domination of science and technology. Such a development is not only cutting us off from nature and one another but also undermining natural and cultural diversity. One major consequence of this is that our very survival is threatened. Moreover, the global economy is overwhelmingly controlled and run by consumerism and salespersons in which things are bought not because people need them but because they want them. The modern economic notion that more production of goods would make people happy is misplaced.

Ethics and the non-religious essence of Buddhism

Ethics and the non-religious essence of Buddhism

  Posted on December  2014,  By Rohana R. Wasala


Part 1. http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2014/12/16/ethics-and-the-non-religious-essence-of-buddhism/

Part 2. http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2014/12/20/ethics-and-the-non-religious-essence-of-buddhism-ii/

Part 3. http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2014/12/24/ethics-and-the-non-religious-essence-of-buddhism-iii/comment-page-1/