Dunhuang Art

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Everywhere Except in a Tibet Restored to the Dalai Lama, Right?

I urge young women to accept leadership roles. We need you to promote love and compassion. Realise my dream—that the 200 nations of the world be governed by women. There’ll be less war, violence, and economic and social injustice because strength is rooted in love and compassion

— Dalai Lama (@DalaiLama) March 8, 2020

What are you implying?

That this is an issue that Buddhists need to work on?

The Departure

For the Record...

A Curious Piece at the Imaginative Conservative

Down Home American Zen by Stephen Masty

The author recommends "Japanese aesthetics, particularly the portions derived from Zen Buddhism and specifically at what is called wabi-sabi" for American cultural conservatives.

Can the beauty of profane items also remind us of God?

I am reminded that this week there was this piece on the connection between the Japanese tea ceremony and Catholicism over at Crisis.

Yesterday the family drove to SF Chinatown to have dinner at Enjoy, a Chinese vegetarian restaurant. I had gone to a Chinese vegetarian restaurant before, I believe it was with Hsin-Nan and her bf and the restaurant was in Berkeley. I hope it is the last time I have to go to a Chinese vegetarian restaurant. The imitation meat didn't taste like meat (and much of it was made from soy!); the meal was not as satisfying as lunch or dinner at Sweet Tomatoes, and the prices were rather outrageous -- as much as, or even more than meat dishes at the other Chinese restaurants in the area. And it was Chinese food, which generally is not appetizing to me, because of the vegetable oil or the sauces.

On the restaurant window? and in some of the literature it was written, "All life is precious." Is all life equally precious? Apparently not, since we can eat plants and fungi. Are animals less precious than humans? Or are they equally precious? If animal life is so precious, why isn't don't humans intervene to prevent animals from killing each other, just as they would prevent other human beings from injuring or killing each other? Is this such a simple-minded retort?