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Center for American Buddhist Practice - San Diego Schedule

This Tuesday: Meditation Service, 6-7pm. Please bring a zafu/meditation cushion.

Advanced Sutra Study, 7-8pm. Text: Nagarjurna, “Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way.”

Location: Eye of the Buddha, corner of Park and El Cajon Blvd., Hillcrest.

American Buddhist Net Week in Review: Monday, March 1 - Sunday, March 7

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Lama Anagarika Govinda was one of the last foreigners to journey through Tibet before the Chinese invasion of 1950. A devoted Buddhist and a spokesman for Tibetan culture, Govinda's luminous and candid account is a spectacular and gloriously poetic story of exploration and discovery, and a sensitive and lucid interpretation of Tibetan traditions. Robert Thurman's perceptive new introduction to the volume places Govinda's writings in historical context and opens a new door on understanding Tibet, Buddhism, and the life of a remarkable man who, as Thurman remarks, is "undoubtedly one of the West's greatest minds of the twentieth century, a member of the pantheon that includes Einstein, Heisenberg, Wittgenstein, Solzhenitsyn, Gandhi, and the Dalai Lama."

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American Buddhist Net News Week in Review: Monday Feb. 15 - Sunday, Feb. 21, 2010

American Buddhist Net News Week in Review: Jan. 25 - Jan. 31, 2010

American Buddhist Net News Week in Review: Jan. 18 - Jan. 24, 2010

Watchdog groups warn: ‘Corporate globalization’ of US elections is upon us
The Corporation Part One (Of Three)
Haiti: 360°
Thirty runners disqualified from Chinese marathon for cheating
EFF: Court ruling means ’surveillance of Americans immune from review’
Chinese Christians Are the Focus of Same-Sex Marriage Case
Iraq littered with high levels of nuclear and dioxin contamination, study finds
China miffed over plan to name stadium after Dalai Lama
No Deaths from Vitamins, Minerals, Amino Acids or Herbs
California's medical marijuana possession limits are dropped
The Vancouver method: Treat addicts as people
Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit
The meritocracy and Jewish kinship networks
software freedom is an important part of what allows us to determine the way we live, work, and communicate
The Massachusetts Senate Race: A Populist Protest Vote Against Wall Street Puppets
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle
Pulled From The Rubble 6 Days After Earthquake Because Of Husband's Unwavering Love
China to Scan Text Messages to Spot ‘Unhealthy Content’
The Rule of Law Has Been Lost
Bornean orangutan acts as 'peacemaker' in Japan zoo
Depressive realism
Prefrontal white matter in pathological liars
Moscow’s stray dogs
Doctor wrote 1,000 scripts/week
“The whole world is laughing at China being stupid”
Eight in 10 Americans favor legalizing medical marijuana: poll
Yellowstone hit by swarm of earthquakes
Michelle Obama's toxic veggie nightmare: White House organic garden polluted with sludge
British Airways sued over 'humiliating' policy
Vietnam aims to carve world's biggest jade Buddha
Google Pledge of No Censoring Spurs Tiananmen Searches in China

American Buddhist Net News Week in Review: Jan. 4 - Jan. 10, 2010

Center for American Buddhist Practice - San Diego Schedule

Our classes resume for the new year: 1st and 3rd Tuesdays – Buddhist concepts, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays – Advanced Sutra Study (currently Nagarjuna’s treatise on Emptiness, “The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way”).

Every Tuesday at 6pm is a meditation service, and classes follow at 7pm. Location: Eye of Buddha (corner of Park and El Cajon), upstairs. For more info: please visit our website: www.cfabp.org, or contact Jonathan: 858.459.9313.

“True patience is founded on understanding the truth. It is much deeper than mere sufferance of hardship. Patience is a virtue that is based on a profound perception of ultimate reality. At its deepest levels, patience requires no energy because its perception of the truth is complete. When we truly understand that all trials of the phenomenal world are empty and that all phenomenal manifestations are impermanent, we will no longer need to use energy to be patient with them.” --Master Hsing Yun, “Lotus in a Stream”

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American Buddhist Net News Week in Review: Dec. 14-20, 2009

The Conquerors of the Tigers Now Battle for the Spoils
Wat expelled over female ordination
Death Of The Internet: Censorship Bills In UK, Australia, U.S. Aim To Block “Undesirable” Websites
David Ray Griffin on the 9/11 Cell Phone Calls: Exclusive CBC Interview
Stunning book speaks volumes about the ravages visited on Tibet
Cambodia sends Uighur asylum-seekers back to China
The Simulation Argument: Why the Probability that You Are Living in a Matrix is Quite High
Geeky Math Equation Creates Beautiful 3-D World
FDA Panel Recommendation on Crestor Spurs Debate
Stunning Statistics About the War Every American Should Know
Consolidated History of Marijuana in Japan
Cannabis for Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's Disease treatment
Vietnam's 'illegal' Buddhists seek French asylum
Holding Doctors Accountable for Medical Errors
Buddhist monks may soon learn science in monasteries
Scott Fenstermaker, the 9/11 Lawyer, Speaks Out
Taunton schools rebut report on child's Jesus drawing
The Spooky World of Quantum Entanglement
IRS Eased NOL Rules for Citigroup in Exchange for Repayment of TARP Funds
Study: Airport Noise Increases Risk of Strokes
Epicenter The Business of Tech AT&T Tells FCC It Loves the Idea, Not Rules, of Net Neutrality
China bans individual web domain names
Overuse of CT scans will lead to new cancer deaths, a study shows
22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found
Robert Fisk - Obama is a disaster for the Middle East
Developing nations walk out of climate talks
The Hashish Army- Afghanistan. Is this what we are fighting for?

Center for American Buddhist Practice - San Diego Schedule

Center for American Buddhist Practice - Schedule

Location: Eye of the Buddha, corner of Park and El Cajon Blvd.

Meditation Service, 6-7pm, Tuesdays. Please bring your own zafu/meditation cushion.

Buddhist Concepts class, 7-8pm, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays.

American Buddhist Net News Week in Review: Dec. 6 - Dec. 13, 2009

AP: Monsanto dominating seed markets with patented genetics
US Kids Represent Psychiatric Drug Goldmine
Lawrence Summers Memo: Dec. 12, 1991
Emperor to grant audience to Chinese Vice President Xi
Child abduction becomes epidemic in China
Genetic 'map' of Asia's diversity
Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics
Carlyle, Kissinger, SAIC and Halliburton: A 9/11 Convergence
From Minnie to Mickey (and all they did was turn off a gene)
Robert Fisk - Obama is a disaster for the Middle East
Obama's Big Sellout
Most Americans Support Legalizing Marijuana
Threatened Buddhists to leave Vietnam temple: Abbot
Bin Laden Never Mentioned in Mcchrystal Report or Obama Speech
Sri Lanka Catholic Church attacked, suspicions fall on Buddhist extremists
Obama Far Outdoes Bush in Escalating War -- The Numbers Will Surprise You
Congress Less Trusted Than Ever
Marijuana might cause new cell growth in the brain
Rap and manga - new roads to Nirvana in Japan
China's Shaolin Temple rakes in cash and controversy
New unmanned US stealth jet based in Afghanistan gathers data in Iran
Czech Govt Allows 5 Cannabis Plants For Personal Use From 2010
45-minute WMD claim 'came from an Iraqi taxi driver'
Mind-Machine Breakthrough: People Type With Just Thoughts
Tibetans-in-exile hold candlelight vigil for nun who died after protests in China
The Big Idea That Might Beat Cancer and Cut Health-Care Costs by 80 Percent
Scientific Community Unfair to Dr. Rupert Sheldrake, Imperial College London Dissertation Asserts
Kisha Clubs
Uighurs using missionary railway to flee China
Date for US drawdown needed to press Afghans: Gates
Sprint manager: ‘Half’ of all police surveillance includes text messaging
9/11 – Has America Been Told The Truth

American Buddhist Net News Week in Review: Nov. 30 - Dec. 6, 2009

Sorry this is a few days late. I will try to get better about posting the "Week in Review" weekly, rather than biannually, which is basically what I've been doing. Robyn
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"The Ground Truth" Book Review by David Ray Griffin
Little Known Facts About Afghanistan and Bin Laden
The REAL king of the jungle
China's Red Princesses
Mongolia: Shamanism is making a comeback
"Bandwidth hogs" join unicorns in realm of mythical creatures
Buddhist nun raises over 70 poor children single-handed
Kevin Ryan Presentation at Keene State College 9/12/09
Obama Lied: Taliban Did Not Refuse to Hand Over Bin Laden
Animal sacrifice in Nepal: Not our mainstream culture
Vietnam: Undying remorse for the unborn
Patriot Act Renewal Moving Forward
How the Drug Industry Spends $20 Billion a Year On Marketing
Jesse Ventura's Conspiracy Theory - Episode 1 - HAARP
North Koreans dare to protest as devaluation wipes out savings
The last of the Dalai Lamas?
Marilyn Monroe shown 'smoking marijuana' on film
Obama Promise To End The War, 2007 - "You Can Take That To The Bank"
Tim DeChristopher, Utah Environmental Activist, Being Charged By Government For Failing To Pay Oil Bid
Iraq sees alarming rise in cancers, deformed babies
Splitting Time from Space—New Quantum Theory Topples Einstein's Spacetime
Obama orders 30-35,000 more troops for Afghanistan, surge to begin by Christmas
South Korea: War-torn border with North Korea draws nature tourism
The World of China Inc.
Battling Siberia's devastating illegal logging trade

Center for American Buddhist Practice Sutra Study & Meditation: San Diego

The Center for American Buddhist Practice Sutra Study & Meditation: Meditation every week for the first hour and for the second hour we alternate between a Practical Buddhism class and a Sutra Study class.

Classes take place at the Eye of Buddha Store in San Diego on the corner of Park and El Cajon Blvd. The meditation and classes are free and are held every Tuesday starting at 6 pm.

For more information see: http://www.cfabp.org/sdhome.html

Center for American Buddhist Practice Sutra Study & Meditation: San Diego

A Good and Honest Heart

When I travel, the person sitting next to me often asks, “You are a Buddhist? Tell me what Buddhism is.” …I have often asked my teachers , especially my father, His Holiness Mindrolling Trichen Rinpoche, about that. He would always say, “Don’t you see? Gathering the eighty-four thousand teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha in one point: a good heart, and an honest heart.” This is the answer to the question, “What is Buddhism?”

--Ven. Khandro Rinpoche

Please visit www.cfabp.org for a schedule of classes and meditation services starting at 6pm on Tuesdays at the Eye of the Buddha.

Robert Reese Jones

Robert Reese Jones, linguist and scholar, who had been a Senior Professor at Sagami Women's University in Kanagawa, Japan, died on September 20, 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan. He was 68.

The cause was heart failure, his sister Jeanette Sands said.

Mr. Jones had published many articles in Japan and elsewhere and had influenced many students during his long teaching career in Japan. At the time of his death, he was close to finishing a book comparing Sino-Tibetan and Mayan.

Crashed Database Resurrected after FOIA Request to NSA

American Buddhist Net News
September 21, 2009

Nihill, CA: A large database that had been destroyed by human error was found and replaced through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request made to the NSA (National Security Agency) by a popular website based in California.

"We were beside ourselves with worry," said Richard Freeny, CEO of "Your Place or Mine," a website that describes itself as being for "Eccentrics and fringe thinkers everywhere."

"All of our data was lost. I mean, everything. Years of work lost forever until Maria suggested contacting the NSA," Freeny said during an interview at his office in Nihill, CA.

Are We Misunderstanding the Fifth Precept?

Some people say the fifth precept is concerned with alcohol. Some say alcohol and other intoxicants. Some say alcohol and other intoxicants that lead to "heedlessness." Some say all intoxicants lead to heedlessness and that thus the fifth precept asks us to refrain from all of them.

A very fine Sri Lankan translator and Buddhist scholar personally told me that the fifth precept should be translated thus: "I take it upon myself to refrain from the irresponsible use of alcohol which can cause heedlessness." I may have the words slightly off, but his point was refraining from "irresponsible use" of alcohol and that "irresponsible" means becoming "heedless."

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DNA Scientists: THC Gene "Easily Transferred to Tomato, Cucumber, and Other Common Garden Plants"

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June 1, 2009

Oakdale, CA: Scientists at Montsaint Genie Tech Inc. announced today that they have successfully transferred the gene segment that produces the psychotropic chemical THC in cannabis plants to many other common garden plants, including tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, carrots, and more.

"We probably can put the THC segment into almost any plant in existence," says lead scientist Rebeca Vale. "It's a very simple process. We are starting work on oak and maple trees now."

Asked if the resulting plants could be used in ways similar to cannabis, Vale replied, "Well, you can't make twine out of a tomato plant, but if someone were to dry it and smoke it, all of the medicinal and psychotropic effects of marijuana would be present. And what's more, we have learned that tomatoes, in particular, actually produce more THC than cannabis itself."

But is it legal? "Actually, yes," says Vale. "Our research qualifies as GMO 'intellectual property', as does the process itself. Since tomatoes and other plants are not illegal, a person would be well within the law to grow them and use them as they please."

Vale says that her company is working on a spray that will transfer the segment to many plants simply by spraying the leaves of seedlings.

"It's a very simple process," she says. "Anyone can do it. We plan to start selling the spray - 'Genie Mist' - in a matter of weeks. One bottle will sell for five dollars and be capable of treating 6,000 seedlings."

But how do the tomatoes taste? "Scrumptious," Vale says. "But, of course, they are best when roasted."

Michigan Buddhist groups helped plant 12,000 trees

(Marquette, MI) - Members of a Zen Buddhist temple are among two northern Michigan Buddhist communities that joined 100 churches and temples in planting 12,000 trees across the Upper Peninsula in early May during the 2009 interfaith EarthKeeper Tree Project.

Volunteers planted the 12,000 trees by homes, camps, parks, American Indian reservations and many other places with help from hundreds of children ranging in age from two-years-old to 22-years-old during the interfaith U.P. EarthKeeper Tree Project.

Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg, a Soto Zen Buddhist priest, told the Northern Michigan University EarthKeeper (NMU EK) Student Team Sacred Planet forum how 2,500 years ago "the Buddha sat under a tree" called the Bodhi Tree until he discovered "the root of suffering - and how to rid one's self of suffering."

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