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Satya Robyn is a Pure Land Buddhist teacher and co-runs the Bright Earth Pure Land temple in Malvern, UK with her husband. She's also a a psychotherapist and author – her latest books are 'Dear Earth: Love Grief and Activism' and 'Coming Home: Refuge in Pureland Buddhism'.In this interview Satya talks about her involvement in climate activism and her acts of civil disobedience taken in conjunction with XR Buddhists and other inter-faith groups. She tenderly describes how her practice creates the ground that supports her and allows her to follow through on the actions she intuitively feels are important. She also explores the thorny issue of how to deal with difficult politics and politicians when choices are made that you don't agree with. Within the discussion, she lists a highly pragmatic set of action points to take if you don't agree with a political direction.This podcast is sponsored by Zen Minded - An online lifestyle store offering you the very best of Japanese craft, incense & other Zen-inspired home-goods. Check it out at www.zenminded.ukIf you liked this podcast, consider: Sharing it via social media - sharable link to this episode https://www.buzzsprout.com/1902945/11457116Signing up to my email listwww.markwestmoquette.co.ukSupport the show
A free-rambling conversation with Marcus, the host of Return of the Repressed, a podcast on the psychology of mass movements both good and bad, an ordained Pure Land Buddhist monk, a painter of temple walls across China, an expert in natural farming, a new father, and a new resident of Japan. Topics include———Marcus' travels around China and Europe, Daoist geomancy and natural foods, archaeobotany, the artefact versus the container, peoples' archaeology and anti-malarial drugs during the Cultural Revolution, the immunology of smoking mugwort on different continents, ergot bacteria and sacred exstatic experiences, iron as a democratic metal, destruction of surplus as value producing spectacle, Jim Jones as stage magician, Hegel and ritual cannibalism, the word “apophatic”, the pedastal and the figurine, Thomas Aquinas' friends boiling the meat off his bones, the whip inside the mind, the (di)vision of labor, Sino-Japanese comparisons, restoration versus acceptance in curatorship, insides and outsides of Kyoto and the rule by retired soveregns, Buddhist clerks and bean counters, Amino Yoshihiko: peasants are more than just farmers, Japanese castles are all fake, Latin poetry under Mussolini, the division of labor as the thing that the most successful Indigenous societies kept at bay, Adam's calendar in Mpumalanga, southern Africa Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Wuxing Lin, a Pure Land Buddhist monk studying at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. He is also doing his internship at the Midwest Buddhist Temple.
This week, we explored how Buddhism impacted the Asian culture, specifically the culture in Japan as a guide. We examined how the fundamentals of Buddhism such as being happy and the law of cause and effect impacted the actions of those indigenous Japanese. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
A talk by Christopher Kakuyo Sensei of the Salt Lake Buddhist Fellowship. Many people aren't aware that gratitude and grace are a very important part of the Buddha Way - Grace from a more modernist Pure Land Buddhist view can be seen as the "other-power" that Amida Buddha represents.
Interviewer: Ben Dorman, co-editor Asian Ethnology Recorded 9 July 2017, Nagoya, Japan This episode's guest is Clark Chilson, associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Clark discusses his experiences studying anthropology in Japan, his research interests that include secrecy and a form of Buddhist psychology called naikan ("introspection"), and his time working as the associate editor of Asian Folklore Studies, the predecessor of Asian Ethnology. Episode Summary Intro 0:41 Reasons for coming to Japan 2:23 Study in Japan 3:30 Approach to ethnographic fieldwork and the question of memory 4:20 Studying anthropology in Japan 5:49 Meeting and studying with Peter Knecht, professor of anthropology at Nanzan University and editor of Asian Folklore Studies; Peter’s influence 7:33 Move to religious studies at Lancaster University and study of secretive Pure Land Buddhist groups 11:00 Return to Japan to work at Nanzan as copy editor/associate editor of Asian Folklore Studies (and Japanese Journal of Religious Studies); the experience of journal work and the pursuit of the “perfect” issue 15:01 Reflections on journal experience in terms of personal scholarship and research 19:11 Move back to US; discussion on Secrecy’s Power (see Publications below); the consequences of secrecy 24:57 Work on the leadership of Ikeda Daisaku, leader of Sōka Gakkai; research and experience of psychotherapeutic practice of naikan (“introspection”) which grew out of Pure Land Buddhism 29:40 Work on special issue co-edited with Scott Schnell in honor of Peter Knecht; co-editing of Shamans in Asia with Peter Knecht 36:16 Outro 36:47 Publications mentioned in this episode Monograph Chilson, Clark. 2014. Secrecy's Power: Covert Shin Buddhists in Japan and Contradictions of Concealment. University of Hawai'i Press. Edited volumes Chilson, Clark, and Scott Schnell, eds. Special Issue Honoring Professor Peter Knecht, editor of Asian Folklore Studies, 1980–2006. Asian Folklore Studies, vol. 66, 2006. Chilson, Clark, and Peter Knecht, eds. 2003. Shamans in Asia. Routledge. Music used with kind permission of the performer, shamisen master Koji Yamaguchi. Copyright 2018 by Asian Ethnology Podcast
Episode 2: In this episode, taken from a teaching from our Enlightened Heart Teaching Tuesday series, Anne C. Klein/Lama Rigzin Drolma explains that Amitabha (the focus of Pure Land Buddhist traditions of East Asia) also plays a significant role for many Tibetan Buddhists. We can understand Amitabha as a person, a force, even an aspect […]
Zachary is formally trained in various Eastern practices. An expert in Qigong, he also has trained in Shaolin Kungfu and Internal Martial Arts such as Yang Taiji Chuan, and Baguazhang. He is a Certified trainer and Shaman in the Quantum Life Science Institute, having studied directly with Andrieh Vitimus for several years and has specialized in Pure Land Buddhist and Daoist magics. Currently, Zachary teaches Qigong, Meditation, and Stillness. He is a Usui Reiki Master and considered a powerful folk priest by his peers in the community.
Zachary is formally trained in various Eastern practices. An expert in Qigong, he also has trained in Shaolin Kungfu and Internal Martial Arts such as Yang Taiji Chuan, and Baguazhang. He is a Certified trainer and Shaman in the Quantum Life Science Institute, having studied directly with Andrieh Vitimus for several years and has specialized in Pure Land Buddhist and Daoist magics. Currently, Zachary teaches Qigong, Meditation, and Stillness. He is a Usui Reiki Master and considered a powerful folk priest by his peers in the community.