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A Monk's Day - American Buddhism
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My
Day - November
23, 2004 - Rev. Heng Sure
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Heng Sure, Ph.D. is the Director of the Berkeley Buddhist
Monastery, President of the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association
and Senior Monastic Bhikshu of the late Chan Master Hsuan
Hua. He has been a Buddhist monk in the Chinese Mahayana
tradition for 29 years and received all his training in
the United States at Gold Mountain Monastery in San Francisco
and at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, in Talmage, California.
He teaches Buddhist-Christian Dialogue at the Graduate Theological
Union. - http://paramita.typepad.com |
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Time
to sit under the tree and enter samadhi? You
decide.
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Meditated
Talked with Mom canceled Thanksgiving visit
Counseled disciple who broke precepts
Set up remodeling of back stairs and fire escape
Drank tea
Read email and news
Translated Chinese song; didn't finish
Met with Methodist colleague to plan college course
Call from Canadian nuns about Vancouver trip
Call from East Coast nuns about Maryland trip
Talked with monk about school schedules
Called school administration about changing monk's English class
Ate lunch
Five phone calls about bike lock
Called book store about order, will deliver
Counseled suicidal teenager
Declined invitation to Interfaith Service
Greeted returning friend, heard stories of trip
Met University Chancellor
University Staff meeting
Spoke with director of interfaith group about budget
Supervised rebuilding
Dis-invited meat-eating workers from dining room
Drank tea
Call from student with doubts
Call from Los Angeles BK sister
Call from Zen teacher about reading circle
Met neighbor discussed bike pilgrimage
Meditated
Evening chanting service
Translated Chinese song; didn't finish
Finished song at midnight
Checked the doors
Meditated before
sleep.
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American
Pilgrimage - Three Steps, One Bow for Peace
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The
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Three steps and a bow. That's how they walked it. Two monks
on a pilgrimage of peace that took them through a series
of wide-ranging encounters and extraordinary experiences
-- within and without. These letters and photos are a record
of their amazing journey.
Two American
Buddhist monks on a journey of a lifetime, from downtown
Los Angeles to the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Talamage,
California. A
journey of more than 800 miles that took two years and
nine months to complete. They bowed in peace, and for peace.
Touching their foreheads to the ground, opening their hearts
with one wish for the world. Peace. For everyone, everyday,
everywhere
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