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An Ancient Buddhist Model for Today’s World

Posted in spiritual practice on April 29, 2011 | Comments Off

In my ongoing effort to find ways to adapt Buddhism to modern American life, I have long been influenced by the example of Vimala-Kirti, the “householder sage” of ancient India (pictured). According to the Vimala-Kirti Sutra (“sutra” means scripture), Vimala-Kirti was a wealthy layperson or householder who was one of the Buddha’s leading lay disciples. Even though he [...]

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What is a Spiritual Practice?

Posted in Aging and Spirituality, spiritual practice, tagged , , , on March 13, 2009 | 8 Comments »

I’ve put the phrase “Spiritual Practice” in my blog title, but it may not be clear to many readers what that means. A spiritual practice is something you do with the body, with speech or with thought that evokes or develops the spiritual in us. The most common spiritual practice in the West is prayer. [...]

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