#Buddhism

Too Much

There seems to be an avalanche right now, a never-ending tide.
I wonder whether it’s only social media, an unhealthy awareness of a reality we’re not used to seeing every day. A desire for attention that ignites fire and fury. A fundamental emptiness. Are our eyes too wide open right now?

#Essay #Reflection #Society #Media #Buddhism #Writing #stoicism

Too Much

There seems to be an avalanche right now, a never-ending tide.
I wonder whether it’s only social media, an unhealthy awareness of a reality we’re not used to seeing every day. A desire for attention that ignites fire and fury. A fundamental emptiness. Are our eyes too wide open right now?

#Essay #Reflection #Society #Media #Buddhism #Writing #stoicism

Draped in ⁠burnt-orange robes, two dozen Buddhist monks arrived in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday on a 2,300-mile "Walk for Peace," a self-described spiritual journey across nine states. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/11/world/society/walk-buddhist-monks-washington/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #washington #buddhism #us

For "Black Ox" director Tetsuichiro Tsuta, his black-and-white art film rooted in Zen philosophy is the story of a man who has “lost his connection with nature.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/01/23/film/black-ox-tetsuichiro-tsuta/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #film #japanesefilm #tetsuichirotsuta #buddhism #leekangsheng

With two Buddhist priestesses among its performing members, Cyber NamuNamu’s performances are not a gimmick but an authentic experience. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026/01/14/stage/cyber-namunamu-buddhism-techno/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #culture #stage #buddhism #electronica #augmentedreality

For many athletes in Japan, the sporting year starts long before the first whistle and much as it does for everyone else — with hatsumōde, the custom of visiting a shrine or temple to offer the year’s first prayers. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2026/01/01/athletes-new-year-rituals/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #sports #religion #shinto #buddhism #newyear039s #shrines #temples #hatsumode

AI generated images/videos and music are thievery: taking what wasn't given.

We must reflect and practice restrain, do not consume them, and much less, spread them. We all should know this by now

Especially heartbreaking is to see monastics, Buddhist pages and YouTube channels, senior practitioners using them

2nd precept: undertake the training rule to abstain from taking what is not given

"Adinnadana veramani sikkhapadam samadiyami" #Buddhist #Buddhism #precepts #AI #AIthieving #stealing

Daily #WabiSabi #Zen #Buddhism 🙏

Daily #WabiSabi #Zen #Buddhism 🙏

불교기(일본어 仏旗)는 한국에서는 자주 보이지 않지만 불교 상징으로서 외국에서는 종종 보인다. 이 깃발을 채택한 세계불교도우의회(WFB: World Fellowship of Buddhists)에는 한국의 불교 종파들도 참여하고 있다.

#Photo #Photography #Buddhism

불교기(일본어 仏旗)는 한국에서는 자주 보이지 않지만 불교 상징으로서 외국에서는 종종 보인다. 이 깃발을 채택한 세계불교도우의회(WFB: World Fellowship of Buddhists)에는 한국의 불교 종파들도 참여하고 있다.

#Photo #Photography #Buddhism

불교기(일본어 仏旗)는 한국에서는 자주 보이지 않지만 불교 상징으로서 외국에서는 종종 보인다. 이 깃발을 채택한 세계불교도우의회(WFB: World Fellowship of Buddhists)에는 한국의 불교 종파들도 참여하고 있다.

#Photo #Photography #Buddhism

불교기(일본어 仏旗)는 한국에서는 자주 보이지 않지만 불교 상징으로서 외국에서는 종종 보인다. 이 깃발을 채택한 세계불교도우의회(WFB: World Fellowship of Buddhists)에는 한국의 불교 종파들도 참여하고 있다.

#Photo #Photography #Buddhism

Luang Prabang, #Laos
Novice Buddhist monks pray in a temple as the evening light fades outside.

Photograph: Eugene Hoshiko/AP

#photography
#Buddhism
#monks
#temples

#Zen #ZenBuddhism #Mindfullness #QuotesForMindfullnessThought #Buddhism

Kiyomizu-dera—one of the Buddhist temples we visited in Japan (one of my favorites).

#SilentSunday #Kyoto #Japan #Buddhism #temple #landscape #zen #tranquility #peaceful #MomentOfZen #photography #nature

#Zen #ZenBuddhism #Mindfullness #QuotesForMindfullnessThought #Buddhism

Went with my wife and our friend from Tokyo to Katsuo-ji (勝尾寺), a very unusual Japanese temple. Its main theme is shown by the many figures of Daruma (達磨大師; Sanskrit: Bodhidharma), who transmitted meditation Buddhism from India to China. This temple in the mountains north of Osaka City especially appeals to Chinese tourists with its bright red colors and the good luck associated with Daruma rituals. Daruma is usually associated with Zen, but the temple is Shingon, the Esoteric Buddhism of Kūkai. Thus, there is a Shintō shrine in the Buddhist temple, and a unique mini-Pilgrimage of 88 temples on the island of Shikoku. There is a statue representing each of the 88, plus a step under each one so that we pilgrims can symbolically set foot on each temple.

Currently a "Research Spotlight" article, related to the above history, see "Translation Issues in the Rapid Transmission of Esoteric Buddhism from India to China to Japan" at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/371965557

#Japan #Osaka #Buddhism #photography

Daily #WabiSabi #Zen #Buddhism 🙏

When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. The same is true of time. When you touch one moment with deep awareness, you touch all moments.

— Thich Nhat Hanh

#zen #buddhism #awareness #meditation #presence #peace

"Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom."

– Bodhidharma

Daily #Zen #Buddhism #Bodhidharma

Daily #WabiSabi #Zen #Buddhism 🙏

Autumn in Japan tastes like chewy rice, sweet red beans, golden soy flour, green "zunda" soybean mash and black sesame. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/09/19/food-drink/autumn-ohagi-sticky-rice-balls/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #fooddrink #japanesecuisine #recipes #desserts #buddhism

heart travels far and wide

#Photography #TravelPhotography #Vietnam #Buddha #Buddhism

heart travels far and wide

#Photography #TravelPhotography #Vietnam #Buddha #Buddhism

heart travels far and wide

#Photography #TravelPhotography #Vietnam #Buddha #Buddhism

heart travels far and wide

#Photography #TravelPhotography #Vietnam #Buddha #Buddhism

護国寺, Tokyo, 2010. Hasselblad 503cw, Kodak EPP 100.

escape of the hexagon king

which is quite the title. these statues are usually guarding the entrances to japanese temples. to keep the bird off they are enclosed in chicken wire.

over the years i started to notice that one of the posts in the fence had often been cut or loosened so that it was possible to get a clean shot.

#filmphotography #photography #hasselblad #japan #tokyo #buddhism

大円寺, Tokyo, 2010. hasselblad 503cw, fujifilm neopan 400.

one of my favourites. love the closed eye serenity under all the gilding.

#filmphotography #photography #120film #tokyo #hasselblad #buddhism

Buddhist Coalition for Democracy

We aspire towards a society that values all of its members and believe democratic values, institutions, and processes are the best means for realizing it. As Buddhists, we are called upon to witness, respond to, and resist the ongoing systematic destruction of norms and institutions that allow free societies to flourish. #buddhism #resistance

https://www.buddhistcoalitionfordemocracy.org

@vjprema Bhante Sujato's translations, as well as 20% of the Wisdom Publications Bhikkhu Bodhi translations (arguably even better) of the Early Buddhist texts are free to read at:
https://suttacentral.net
I also did a 37-minute video presentation several years ago about the Early Buddhist Texts, explaining more context around about what you see in the chart below:
https://bhikkhu.ca/suttas/
(I apologize for the hissy audio in that older video - I'll do it over if I get enough requests)
#Buddhism #Buddha #Theravada

It feels like it's time for a new #introduction

I'm Daniel! He / him.

I'm a husband and Master #Naturalist from Louisiana and living in northeast #Oregon.

I post about #birds, #birding, #insects, #NativePlants, #iNaturalist, and everything else that I find in our travels around this beautiful Earth of ours.

I am a practitioner of #Soto #Zen #Buddhism, a #photographer, web developer, wood carver, and burgeoning gardener.

Website: https://daniel.observer

Hey friends! I just started an account for our local D.C. meditation group over at
@DistrictDharmaCollective. If you're looking for a Buddhist account to follow with an emphasis on the intersection of Buddhism and social justice, we'd be delighted if you'd follow us!

#buddhism #mindfulness #meditation

We're a group of practitioners that formed after the pandemic which forced many meditation centers in the Washington D.C. area to close their doors. We value community, uplifting the voices of marginalized people, and diversity of experience. We all come from different traditions with one common goal: to open our hearts and strengthen our backbone to meet the challenges of these times through mindfulness meditation.

Happy to be part of the DMV.Community!

#Buddhism #Mindfulness #Meditation #Washingtondc #maryland #Virginia

sometimes it’s enough
to reflect another’s light—
unresisting moon

🌕 Commentary, wip photos, and ink palette used: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5518275
💧 Haiku Ink series: https://humangray.com/haiku-ink-series

#haiku #ink #poetry #FountainPenInk #nature #moon #autumn #Buddhism #Daoism #Taoism

one hydrangea bloom
ten thousand flower cluster
my skandha body

💐 Commentary, wip photos, and ink palette used: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/5386293
💧 Haiku Ink series: https://humangray.com/haiku-ink-series

#haiku #ink #poetry #FountainPenInk #nature #flower #flowers #hydrangea #FlowersOfMastodon #BloomScrolling #Buddhism

From 2004-2024 I introduced Japan to visiting foreign officials for the government foreign aid agency (Japan International Cooperation Agency or JICA). From 2020, when JICA could not bring participants to Japan, my recorded presentation by Zoom was shown at their branches overseas. Now, JICA has released the 98-minute recording from exclusive government ownership. It goes broadly and deeply from the origins of Japan 30,000+ years ago to contemporary ways of thinking and social behavior.

You know, it is quite possible to work for 20 years on something and end up with nothing to show for it. Therefore, it means so much, as my legacy, to be able to share this video publicly from now on:

"Japanese People and Society": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCTY8KNlJDo

YouTube channel (since 2006, before Google acquired it): https://www.youtube.com/@SteveMcCarty

Publications on Japan: https://japanned.hcommons.org/japanology

#Japan #Japanese #religion #Buddhism #Shinto #history #society #travel

@religion @histodons @sociology @edutooters

found seashell planet
floating home in an ocean
of water of stars

🐚 Commentary, wip photos, and ink palette used: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/4829399
💧 Haiku Ink series: https://humangray.com/haiku-ink-series

#haiku #ink #poetry #FountainPenInk #seashell #space #planet #ocean #Buddhism #interbeing

Roots of unwholesome states:
(1) Attachment/excess/overindulgence/greed
(2) Aversion/deficiency/self-denial/hatred
(3) Delusion/ignorance

Roots of wholesome states:
(1) Generosity
(2) Loving-kindness
(3) Wisdom (insight into impermanence, interconnectedness, interdependence, unsatisfactoriness)

#buddhism #metacognition #mindfulness #dhamma #dharma #consciousness #humancondition #praxis #reflection #EthicalRevolution #wisdom #reflection #PSA #FYI

#introduction update: I'm a Taiwanese-Canadian artist & writer. My creative practice is also my mindfulness practice. One of my current projects is 1 small quiet somewhere, a fantasy slice-of-life about a centaur-monk and a small hamster-like creature caretaking a retreat, and each other.

🌼 My work: https://humangray.com

❤️ #comics #ink #watercolour #poetry #tea #Buddhism #TaleOfGenji #YuYuHakusho #StarOcean2

#MastoArt #CreativeToots #art #illustration #webcomics #FountainPenInk #watercolor

This is an #Introduction to my interests. Professionally I'm interested in #therapy, #trauma, #complextrauma, #attachment, #eft / #tapping, #nlp, #pkm, #obsidian, #compassion

Personally I'm into #photography, #Buddhism, #Scotland, #Wales, #camping, #hiking

That should do it for now.

dreaming of being
as undiscriminating
as a drop of dew

☔ Commentary, wip photos, and ink palette used: https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/3910958
💧 Haiku Ink series: https://humangray.com/haiku-ink-series

#haiku #ink #FountainPenInk #poetry #MastoArt #CreativeToots #dew #Buddhism

Ruhe im Garten.

#garten #oktobersun #buddhism #greengarden

Pinned Post.
#Epictetus #Stoicism #Buddhism

(re) #introduction #NewInstanceWhoDis

#SoftwareDeveloper, #musician (lifelong #choral #singer & just picked up #BassGuitar again after 25+ years!).

Trying to be #vegetarian, don't always succeed.

Very interested in #buddhism, been #UnitarianUniversalist #uu most of adult life.

Cisgender, straight, #ally.

Very #liberal / #progressive. Would be happy if US coastal states seceded.

#massachusetts right now but hope to go back to #california some day.

I take pictures sometimes too.

He/him/his

Hello, I'm Keith. Controversialist, catalyst and facilitator, quietly providing different ideas and views of the world. Born in London in early 1950s. Originally a chemist with PhD in spectroscopy. Working life in IT; retired as a senior project manager. Founding Secretary, Anthony Powell Society. Chairman of my GP's patient group. Website & blog at https://zenmischief.com. #buddhism #AnthonyPowell #zenmischief #science #photography #OldBuildings #cats #Introduction #Introductions #NewHere

#introduction #ScottishIndependence #scottishdemocracy #jazz #coffee #backgammon #mathematics #computer_science #philosophy #buddhism #wabisabi #mildmannered #fungi #mosstodon #lichen #scotland

"Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively." G I #Gurdjieff -- M Bonbon

#Introduction #IrishTwitter #IrishMastodon I practice Theravada #Buddhism of the Thai Forest Tradition for many years, which includes not only #meditation, but also following the 5, sometimes 8 precepts. I was given the #Pali name Mettikā by Venerable Vimalanyani, a German #bhikkhuni ordained in Sri Lanka. Interested in Engaged Buddhism as a queer neurodivergent practitioner.

#Introduction. I'm Scotland's most prolific Buddhist author. I founded the world's first online meditation center in 2000 (wildmind.org). Born in Scotland but moved to the US (temporarily 🙄) in 1998. I have 2 kids, adopted from Ethiopia, and 3 dogs adopted from Arkansas & Texas. I have books coming out in Oct 2025 and Feb 2026. Check out my guided meditations on the Insight Timer app.

#ScotsLeid #Buddhism #Meditation #ScottishIndependence #Writer #Author #Writing #Vegan

So glad the #twittermigration led me to join the #fediverse. I should've done this long ago. #Introduction time...

I work in #publishing as a production editor for a small nonprofit book publisher.

I ride a #bike because I don't own a car.

I play #chess and #videogames, even though I'm not so good at either.

I listen to #jazz and #classicalmusic on #vinyl.

I read a lot of things but especially #sciencefiction.

And I believe in #buddhism, practice #zen, and vote for #socialism.

I think it's time for a new pinned intro post. So here are some of my interests, in rough groupings:

- #baking #sourdough #bread and #cooking generally
- #tea

- #FountainPens
- #JaneAusten and #Regency
- #sailing and #TallShips
- #drawing

- #RPGs and #games and #GameDesign
- #programming (especially with #Rust and #Python)
- #urbanism

- #WeightLifting and #archery
- #Judaism, #Quakerism, and #Buddhism
- #singing and #FolkMusic

Also I'm always interested in whatever you're geeking out about!