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Posts by The Open Buddhist University

Perception > So no matter which of the aggregates you focus on, the analysis always seems to come down to perception, and especially the perception of value, the perception of meaning.

🗒️ Perception (A free, 5-page essay from 2023)

Tags: #Vipassana #Perception #Feeling

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Attending to the Fullness of Life > This also comes back to the fact that we are not one thing. We are many things, and in fact, we are many things in the process of becoming many more things. And that feels to me like a kind of faith

🗣️ Attending to the Fullness of Life (A free, 42-minute podcast from 2023)

Tags: #Feeling #Delight #Motivation #Love

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Meditation and Complexity: A Review and Synthesis of Evidence > Our review uncovers a convergence toward identifying higher complexity during the meditative state when compared to waking, rest, or mind-wandering and decreased baseline complexity as a trait following regular meditation practice.

📰 A Review and Synthesis of Evidence (A ✨NEW✨, free, 19-page article)

Tags: #Mindfulness #Neuroscience

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Into Buddhism, Yet Hardly an Escape: Monk Dangui and the High Qing Censorship against Him > In 1775, during the process of collecting books for the *Sìkù qúanshū* (四庫全書) project, an empire-wide literary inquisition was imposed on the deceased monk Jīnshì Dánguī (今釋澹歸) (1614–80).

📰 Monk Dangui and the High Qing Censorship against Him (A free, 22-page article from 2024)

Tags: #ZenHistory #History #Sangha #Enculturation #Qing

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Is the New York Times Punking Us? > If he has thoughts that he could or would communicate given an actual method of augmentative or assistive communication that actually works, you are robbing him of that chance.

📼 Is the New York Times Punking Us? (A ✨NEW✨, free, 16-minute video)

Tags: #Communication #Psychology #Autism

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Nimitta > To sum up: the 'sign' 'signals' what is 'significant' enough to merit closer attention.

📑 Nimitta (A free, 3-page paper from 2003)

Tags: #Feeling #Mindfulness #Perception

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Mindfulness Meditation for Chronic Pain: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis > While mindfulness meditation improves pain and depression symptoms and quality of life, additional well-designed, rigorous, and large-scale RCTs are needed to decisively provide estimates of [its] efficacy

📰 Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (A free, 15-page article from 2016)

Tags: #Meditation #BuddhistStudies #Feeling

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Illuminating Reality: Cinematic Identification Revisited in the Eyes of Buddhist Philosophies > A film appears to us as a reality that has its own existential value, one that is initiated from the existential value of the photographed being or object in the past. Yet, it remains a set of sense data, an assemblage of light and shadow that runs 24 frames per second.

📑 Cinematic Identification Revisited in the Eyes of Buddhist Philosophies (A ✨NEW✨, free, 14-page paper)

Tags: #Origination #Feeling #Film

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Dealing with Emotions > ‘I know I'm going to get it!’ When you think negatively like that you're building up the emotions. The emotions you get are built up by many, many moments of unskillful attitudes and thoughts.

🗣️ Dealing with Emotions (A free, 69-minute talk from 2007)

Tags: #Feeling #Wisdom

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Car Harm: A Global Review of Automobility's Harm to People and the Environment > This literature review synthesises the negative consequences of automobility, or car harm, which we have grouped into four categories: violence, ill health, social injustice, and environmental damage.

📰 A Global Review of Automobility's Harm to People and the Environment (A free, 17-page article from 2024)

Tags: #Cars #Things

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Mission Majjhima A series of quick, ten-minute summaries and discussions of each sutta in the Majjhima Nikāya.

🧑‍🏫 Mission Majjhima (A ✨NEW✨, free, 1520-minute online course)

Tags: #BuddhaQuotes

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SN 56.13 Khandha Sutta: Aggregates The Four Noble Truths are defined, with the five aggregates as the truth of suffering.

☸️ Aggregates (A free, 2-page sutta translation from 2018)

Tags: #BuddhaQuotes #Philosophy #Buddhism

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Thullanandā: A Naughty Nun? > The nun who is foremost in misbehavior: she is a very very fascinating nun and she is one of my favorite nuns so I'm very excited for the course today!

🗣️ A Naughty Nun? (A free, 75-minute talk from 2021)

Tags: #StoryTime #Bhikkhuni

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Nuns and the First Council > But, of course, women were not represented at the first council. So the texts of women were not collected...

🗣️ Nuns and the First Council (A free, 61-minute talk from 2021)

Tags: #Nuns #Buddha

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Chadar: The Ice Trail > Slowly, day after day, the ice is closing over the swift-running waters of the Zanskar River, transforming it into the Chadar: the frozen river.

📼 The Ice Trail (A free, 52-minute video from 2012)

Tags: #Nature #Himalayas

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SN 22.29 Abhinandana Sutta: Taking Pleasure > If you take pleasure in consciousness, you take pleasure in suffering.

☸️ Taking Pleasure (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2018)

Tags: #Enlightenment #BuddhaQuotes #Desire

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SN 18.21 Anusaya Sutta: Tendency > One truly sees any kind of form at all—past, future, or present; internal or external; solid or subtle; inferior or superior; far or near: all form—with right understanding: ‘This is not mine, I am not this, this is not my self.’

☸️ Tendency (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2018)

Tags: #Emptiness #Vipassana #Enlightenment #BuddhaQuotes

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“Imported Buddhism” or “Co-Creation”?: Buddhist Cultural Heritage and Sustainability of Tourism at the World Heritage Site of Lumbini, Nepal > Situated amidst a rural hinterland comprising non-Buddhist populations, the Lumbini Sacred Garden master plan covers an area of about 4.5 km². > It has a special “monastic zone” for the construction of 39 international monasteries of which 13 have been built (notable are the Thai, Japanese, Burmese, Sri Lankan, Chinese, Bhutanese, Korean, and European monasteries). > [...In] practical terms, it is perceived as “imported Buddhism” > [and] the limited opportunities for interpretation of this co-created heritage reinforces a sense of alienation for the local community, and poses challenges for the sustainability of tourism and the vitality of Lumbini as a Heritage Site.

📰 Buddhist Cultural Heritage and Sustainability of Tourism at the World Heritage Site of Lumbini, Nepal (A free, 18-page article from 2021)

Tags: #Migration #Travel #InternationalDevelopment #EngagedBuddhism #Intercultural

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Portable Faith: Toward a Non-Site-Specific History of Buddhist Art in Japan > From small-scale shrines to handheld icons and votive tablets, portability has long factored into the design and reception of Buddhist art.

📰 Toward a Non-Site-Specific History of Buddhist Art in Japan (A free, 20-page article from 2023)

Tags: #JapaneseBuddhism #Buddhastatue

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Semantic Change in Adults Is Not Primarily a Generational Phenomenon > Using language model-based word sense induction methods, we identify different senses of each word, and then model the prevalence of each of these word senses as a function of time and speaker age. > We find that most words show a small but statistically significant effect of speaker age; across almost 140 y of Congress, older speakers typically take longer than younger speakers to follow changes in word usage, but nevertheless do so within a few years.

📰 Semantic Change in Adults Is Not Primarily a Generational Phenomenon (A ✨NEW✨, free, 10-page article)

Tags: #Linguistics #Aging #SocialIntelligence

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Buddhist Pilgrimage and the Ritual Ecology of Sacred Sites in the Indo-Gangetic Region > Drawing on ethnographic research, this paper examines how the material and corporeal aspects of Buddhist ritual contribute to the distinctive religious sense of place that reinforce the memory of the Buddha’s life and Buddhism's historical ties to the Indian subcontinent. > It is found that at most Buddhist sites, pilgrim groups mostly travel with their own monks, nuns, and guides from their respective countries who facilitate devotion and reside in the monasteries and guest houses affiliated with their national community. > Despite the differences across national, cultural–linguistic, and sectarian lines, the ritual practices associated with pilgrimage speak to certain patterns of religious motivation and behavior that contribute to a sense of shared identity that plays an important role in how Buddhists imagine themselves as part of a translocal religion in a globalizing age.

📰 Buddhist Pilgrimage and the Ritual Ecology of Sacred Sites in the Indo-Gangetic Region (A free, 21-page article from 2021)

Tags: #Modern #Travel

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SN 23.4 Pariññeyya Sutta: Should Be Completely Understood > Form, feeling, perception, choices, and consciousness. These are called the things that should be completely understood. And what is complete understanding? The ending of greed, hate, and delusion.

☸️ Should Be Completely Understood (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2018)

Tags: #Buddhism #BuddhaQuotes #Life #SpiritualAwakening

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SN 22.22 Bhāra Sutta: The Burden > And who is the bearer of the burden [of the five aggregates]? The individual (*puggalo*), it should be said;

☸️ The Burden (A free, 2-page sutta translation from 2018)

Tags: #Sects #Philosophy #Hermeneutics #BuddhaQuotes

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Cave in the Snow A short biography of Tenzin Palmo, showing the cave in the mountains where she stayed on retreat for twelve years as well as her subsequent work to reestablish monastic opportunities for Tibetan women.

📼 Cave in the Snow (A free, 51-minute video from 2002)

Tags: #Nuns #Tibet

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A Theory of Literate Action > With the emergence of literacy as part of human cultural evolution, new kinds of relations and activities formed that have created structures of participation in larger and more distant organizations, relying on accumulating knowledge and mediated through genre-shaped texts. It is for these activity contexts that individuals must produce texts, mobilizing the resources of language, and it is within these contexts that the texts will have their effect.

📕 A Theory of Literate Action (A free, 197-page book from 2013)

Tags: #Linguistics #Rhetoric #Writing #Paper #Society

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The Sutra of Druma, King of the Kinnara and the Buddhist Philosophy of Music > This chapter discusses a little-known Buddhist scripture, the *Sutra of the Questions by Druma, King of the Kinnara* (*Daiju kinnara-ō shomon-gyō*), translated into Chinese by Kumārajīva in the early fifth century. > This sutra is unique in that it proposes a powerful, and sympathetic, philosophy of music rooted in the Mahayana doctrines of emptiness; it also offers a template for Buddhist rituals involving music and dance that have been performed in Japan since the eighth century as part of [the Gagaku and Bugaku repertory](/content/articles/dharma-of-music_rambelli-fabio).

📑 The *Sutra of Druma, King of the Kinnara* and the Buddhist Philosophy of Music (A free, 17-page paper from 2021)

Tags: #Buddhastatue #ZenHistory #Gagaku

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SN 22.61 Āditta Sutta: Burning > Experiencing revulsion, he becomes dispassionate. Through dispassion his mind is liberated.

☸️ Burning (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2000)

Tags: #SpiritualAwakening #BuddhaQuotes #Vipassana

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AN 10.12 Pañcaṅga Sutta: Five Factors An Arahant has overcome the five hindrances and possesses five factors which may be considered their opposites.

☸️ Five Factors (A free, 1-page sutta translation from 2012)

Tags: #Hindrances #BuddhaQuotes #Enlightenment

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The Dharma of Music: Gagaku and Buddhist Salvation in Medieval Japan > The article outlines some of the ways in which professional musicians and music virtuosos among the aristocracy conceptualized gagaku and bugaku instrumental music in Buddhist terms between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries. > In addition to providing doctrinal justifications for artistic endeavors, they also contributed to the development of new ritual forms, such as bugaku hōyō and kangen kōshiki. > This article explores influential [Buddhist canonical ideas about music](/content/papers/sutra-of-druma-king-of-kinnara_rambelli-fabio) and shows how they were developed by musicians in medieval Japan.

📰 Gagaku and Buddhist Salvation in Medieval Japan (A free, 27-page article from 2021)

Tags: #Gagaku #JapaneseBuddhism #Buddhastatue

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A Rhetoric of Literate Action > The first four chapters of this volume provide a framework for identifying and understanding the situations writing comes out of and is directed toward. The next four chapters then consider how a text works to transform a situation and achieve the writer’s motives as the text begins to take form. The final four chapters provide more specific advice of the work to be accomplished in bringing the text to final form and how to manage the work and one’s own emotions and energies so as to accomplish the work most effectively. The advice of this book is for the experienced writer with a substantial repertoire of skills, who now would find it useful to think in more fundamental strategic terms about what they want their texts to accomplish, what form the texts might take, how to develop specific contents, and how to arrange the work of writing.

📕 A Rhetoric of Literate Action (A free, 161-page book from 2013)

Tags: #Writing #Rhetoric

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