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from Buddha Space Through the goodness that arises from my practice, May my spiritual teachers and guides of great virtue, My mother, my father, and my relatives, The Sun and the Moon, and all virtuous leaders of the world, May the highest gods and evil forces, Celestial beings, guardian spirits of the Earth, and the Lord of Death, May those who are friendly, indifferent, or hostile, May all beings receive the blessings of my life. Mat they soon attain the threefold bliss and realize the Deathless. Through the goodness that arises from my practice, And through this act of sharing, May all desires and attachments quickly cease And all harmful states of mind. Until I realize Nibbana, In every kind of birth, may I have an upright mind, With mindfulness and wisdom, austerity and vigor. May the forces of delusion not take hold nor weaken my resolve. The Buddha is my excellent refuge, Unsurpassed is the protection of the Dhamma, The Solitary Buddha is my noble lord, The Sangha is my supreme

from MahaSangha News by Adam Tebbe Tibetans march in NYC. Photo by Annie Kohl. The AFP has reported that some two-thousand protesters marched from New York’s Brooklyn Bridge to the United Nations headquarters on March 10 in commemoration of the Tibetan National Uprising day. This year’s march was fueled by a growing sense of unease in Tibet, where many have sacrificed their lives in self-immolation protests against Chinese rule in the region. Marchers concluded the day’s event with a candlelight vigil. Protests on March 10 happened in other places around the world, including Taiwan , London , and Australia , to name only a few. Also, a three-man hunger strike for Tibet has been underway for weeks now at the United Nations headquarters (which we reported on previously ). The trio experienced several run-ins with the NYPD early on in the strike but remain determined to continue. Click through here for related video. Video on the hunger strike Popout (Photo by SFT HQ via Flickr , usi

Archivist and author Janica Anderson is currently writing a biography on Ruth Fuller Everett Sasaki and Sokei-an Sasaki , an endeavor that's taken her a good decade to research and write; she also hopes for a feature film to accompany it. She's started a Kickstarter campaign to find sources of funding, an approach that has proven successful for many other writers and filmmakers. Sokei-an was a Rinzai Zen teacher from Japan, and Ruth was an American aristocrat who later married Sokei-an. Janica is an archivist of spoken audio recordings, with 13 archives under her care (the largest of which is the Esalen Institute archive). She is also seeking funds to digitize the archives (separate from the current campaign). See www.bigsurtapes.com . Why does she need funding? Here's her explanation, taken from her Kickstarter campaign page : "This book has been a labor of love, but I have now come to the point in the project where I need help. Kickstarter is a Godsend. I seek