Thus Have I Seen (and Heard)

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Avocado, Beet, and Cucumber Salad

Avocado, Beet, and Cucumber Salad. I just made up this salad and enjoyed it so much I wanted to share it with you. The picture above is made with yogurt instead of oil and without microgreens. My indoor salad garden is...

May 15, 2021

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Pickled Lemon or Other CItrus

Lemon Pickle. I just made this and am using it on many things including the “Avocado, Beet, Cucumber Salad” shown elsewhere. It is very refreshing as a snack in cold plain yogurt. No sugar needed. I have seen this for...

May 15, 2021

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Buddha-dharma Science

“Why I Am Not A Buddhist”–Book Review

Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. I started this book by Evan Thompson hoping to find a critique of trends in Buddhism, as it is currently practiced in the West, by a person...

April 26, 2021

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Thinking About Buddha: A Review of “Why I Am Not a Buddhist”

Don Asper. The following is a review of Evan Thompson’s book “Why I Am Not a Buddhist” by Don Asper, a long-time disciple of H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III. Don is a gifted musician and retired IT person who often brings...

April 25, 2021

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Why Evan Thompson Isn’t a Buddhist

Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia. This article is from a conversation between Sam Littlefair with scholar Evan Thompson about his new book “Why I am not a Buddhist” and why...

April 25, 2021

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Japanese Cucumber Salad (Sunomono) non-vegetarian options

Sunomono. This is my favorite way to eat cucumbers. I am including this recipe now as my indoor salad garden is starting to have crunchy little Persian cucumbers. They have almost taken over the garden, but there are...

April 24, 2021

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Art Buddha-dharma

The World’s Largest Buddhist Temple

Borobudur Temple, Java, Indonesia. My brother Glenn sent me this video and I wanted to share it with you. This seventh or ninth century Mahayana Buddhist Temple is one place I would still like to visit. I knew it had...

April 11, 2021

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Art Buddha-dharma Events

Dance Offering

Natta Hua Ling Quintero came to the temple last week to reread the Supreme and Unsurpassable Mahamudra of Liberation and continue her study of Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra. She had both her...

April 11, 2021

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Food

Tofu “Haloumi”

This is the best way to serve tofu that I know. Regular dairy haloumi (or halloumi) is a semi-hard unripened Mediterranean cheese usually made with goat’s or sheep’s milk that has an unusually high melting...

April 11, 2021

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Buddha-dharma My Book

My Book has arrived

Details of “Jewels” that appeared on Grass Mandala. My publisher just told me I would soon receive some copies of Thus Have I Seen: The Marvelous Buddha Dharma and Its Power to Transform. I did publish some...

April 5, 2021

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