In Other News...encouragement from the Dalai Lama & more
by Kestrel Slocombe
November 14, 2013
Dalai Lama encourges Buddhist nuns on the Path:His Holiness the Dalai Lama recently spoke encouragingly to hundreds of exiled Tibetan Buddhist nuns in India about the importance of their roles in preserving the Buddhist teachings and as future teachers.
Groundhog Day: Recurrence, salvation, and the bodhisattva way.Most of us have had our Groundhog Days—not even an endlessly painful time, but an unendingly boring and banal situation that keeps happening again and again and again. The feeling of being trapped becomes unbearable; awakening to the prospect of another day just like yesterday yields nothing but despair. At the Tricycle blog you can read a Buddhist take on “Groundhog Day” and rediscover your love of Bill Murray in the process.
