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Less blame, more responsibility 27 Aug 2013 | 03:11 pm
We’ve all heard some pretty terrible things from the mouths of so-called religious teachers, but this is a new low. Sheikh Sharif Hussein, an Islamic preacher and imam, used his platform during Friday...
SuttaCentral update 16 Aug 2013 | 03:13 pm
We’ve just gone live with the new update for SuttaCentral. Check it out! For this edition you won’t notice much change on the front end. But that is as planned. When we finished the newly designed si...
Interfaith forum 15 Aug 2013 | 05:54 am
Last night I attended an interfaith forum hosted at UWA, and put on by the Uniting Church and others. You can see the details on the website, and hopefully there will be some video of the event up soo...
Sensing Disability in Buddhism 15 Aug 2013 | 04:52 am
Dear friends, Please see below the upcoming forum regarding Buddhism and disabilities. If you are in Sydney, take the chance to go along and learn something about the relation between Buddhism and di...
Seeking an editor 8 Aug 2013 | 06:07 am
Dear friends, For the past few years I’ve been involved with the group AABCAP, who have run a wonderful course on Buddhism and Psychotherapy. We’ve planned to make a book based on the course, and hav...
Running a meditation group 8 Aug 2013 | 05:24 am
Over the past few months I’ve been encouraging people at my classes to start their own meditation groups, at their workplace, school, or home. Mainly, of course, this is so that i don’t have to do so ...
Sydney Metta Retreat, 8–15 November, 2013 23 Jul 2013 | 05:53 am
Dear friends, I’m teaching a metta retreat in Sydney in November. I’d love to see you there! Here’s the details: Mettā is the unconditional loving-kindness that reaches out to encompass all beings. ...
Why Buddhist men shouldn’t be ordained 19 Jul 2013 | 06:05 am
Just because I can’t resist. 10. A man’s place is in the workforce, where he can earn money to donate to nuns. 9. Mens’ avoidant and primitive ways of communicating and dealing with emotions make th...
Why men shouldn’t be ordained 19 Jul 2013 | 03:21 am
Thanks to Ayya Adhimutta, who forwarded me this wonderful link. Obviously its in a Christian context, but I bet we can think of Buddhist reasons why men should never, never, be trusted with the yellow...
The tyranny of footnotes 18 Jul 2013 | 04:11 am
It has become our policy on SuttaCentral to present our texts without notes or introductory essays or the like. This more or less just happened, and it was agreed by all of us some time ago. Originall...
