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2009-09-19T20:13:00-06:00

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Shotgun-blogging, life, karma, labels

Last updated on: September 19, 2009 at 8:13 pm By Justin Whitaker

After the very kind, funny, and ego-inflating mention over at Zen Dirt, Zen Dust, it feels a bit wrong to blurt out a stream of consciousness / here’s what’s going on in my life / unedited by the Virgin Mary herself kind of post. But oh well. In Life: I’m very happily back together with my girlfriend, Julie. I still have no idea where I’m going in life, let alone where we are going, but it just works in a... Read more

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2009-09-14T20:22:00-06:00

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A Great Weekend

Last updated on: September 14, 2009 at 8:22 pm By Justin Whitaker

I have a couple good philosophical posts on the way, but for now, a bit of life as a runner in Montana… Saturday, Julie and I headed up to Whitefish for the Two Bear Half Marathon. After picking up our race-packs we immediately made our way to Glacier National Park for a quick shot of nature and a sunset over Lake McDonald.Then it was off to Michele and Cody’s (many thanks!) for the night before the big run. Rising early,... Read more

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2009-09-10T05:09:00-06:00

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Psychology of Happiness

Last updated on: September 10, 2009 at 5:09 am By Justin Whitaker

I am doing some research on metta-bhavana (cultivation of loving-kindness) meditation and, along with a slew of recent articles discussing its efficacy, I just stumbled upon this little gem: The authors hypothesized that thinking about the absence of a positive event from one’s life would improve affective states more than thinking about the presence of a positive event but that people would not predict this when making affective forecasts. In Studies 1 and 2, college students wrote about the ways... Read more

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2009-09-05T17:12:00-06:00

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A Proud Fundamentalist Buddhist Scholar White Guy in America

Last updated on: September 5, 2009 at 5:12 pm By Justin Whitaker

I’m not sure about that title, but judge for yourself. I want to try to tie together threads from three recent blog-conversations where well-meaning and intelligent contemporary Western/American Buddhists have come to loggerheads over practice, definitions, and the likes. These were at: Buddhist Ethics, some Buddhist sayings on Morality, where Tom and I had a brief and cordial back-and-forth. The Reformed Buddhist, where Kyle defends his Buddhist identity and his (wantonly?) breaking the precepts along the way (complete with great... Read more

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2009-09-04T06:50:00-06:00

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Shakespeare and Sunsets

Last updated on: September 4, 2009 at 6:50 am By Justin Whitaker

Last night Julie and I and Blake and Amy and her new roommate made our way to UM’s Oval to watch Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.” According to wikipedia it was first cataloged as a comedy but later re-assessed by some as a romance. In this production at least it was the comedy that held center stage as Caliban, a fish-man (comically labeled as a ‘monster’), and Trinculo and Stephano, a jester and a drunken butler, funbled drunkenly through a plot to... Read more

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2009-09-02T16:20:00-06:00

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Gratitude Journal

Last updated on: September 2, 2009 at 4:20 pm By Justin Whitaker

I am long overdue for a post specifically on Gratitude. It is gratitude that connects our heart with the world around us. Anxiety, fear, anger, greed, and so on all come from a lack of or weakness in this connection. I am working on a conference paper on the Buddhist practice of Metta Bhavana, the Cultivation of Loving Kindness. One of the stanzas there is: Mātā yathā niyaṃ putthaṃĀyusā ekaputtam anurakkha,ewam pi sabbabhūtesumānasam bhāvaye aparimāṇaṃ. Which is well translated as:... Read more

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2009-09-01T21:48:00-06:00

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China: The Longest Way

Last updated on: September 1, 2009 at 9:48 pm By Justin Whitaker

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4636202&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 The Longest Way 1.0 – one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo. Inspiration, double-plus. Read more

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2009-08-31T16:08:00-06:00

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Cousin’s Wedding

Last updated on: August 31, 2009 at 4:08 pm By Justin Whitaker

This weekend was spent around Denver, CO at my cousin’s wedding. Unbenownst to me, my mother (aunt of the bride) had spread rumors that I was a great photographer, so I was recruited as a back-up photographer. At one point a cousin even asked me if I was “doing photography for a living now.” Sheesh. Mom. Come on. Like many of us, there are two distinct sides of my family: the sane side (my father’s) and the crazy side (my... Read more

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2009-08-24T22:28:00-06:00

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Musings on Friendship

Last updated on: August 24, 2009 at 10:28 pm By Justin Whitaker

In tonight’s Dharma-talk, a recording of Jack Kornfield reading from “The Wise Heart: A Guide to the Universal Teachings of Buddhist Psychology,” he mentioned two very poignant things. The first was a quote from a Chinese (his attribution) teaching that: Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. (from here, Unknown Source)... Read more

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2009-08-24T05:09:00-06:00

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China: Virtual Tour

Last updated on: August 24, 2009 at 5:09 am By Justin Whitaker

Many thanks to Peter, one of our fearless organizers, we have a googlemap of the sites visited on the recent Woodenfish in China program. This is what the map looks like:But click on the map or this link and you can zoom right in on our points of interest and discovery, from our humble beginings at Pumen Vihara in downtown Shanghai to the far reaches of Famen Temple and the Terracotta Warriors near Xi’an. Eventually I’ll finish editing the 5000+... Read more

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