Goodbye, YahooGroups. Hello, BigTent.

For several years now, we have used YahooGroups to maintain our email list and to organize ourselves for events.  This is no longer possible because YahooGroups has become entirely useless for these purposes.  To give some idea of the kinds of difficulties we have had with YahooGroups, two longstanding members of our sangha have been unable to participate in it, and new people who are interested in joining are systematically turned away.  This is completely unacceptable.

Hence, starting now, we are migrating away from YahooGroups and toward a site called BigTent.  You can find our BigTent group here.  If you are currently receiving emails from our Yahoo Group, you will receive an invitation from me to join the BigTent group on Monday, 7 October.  I encourage anyone who is interested in these teachings to join the BigTent group, explore it, and participate. 

Thank you for your understanding and forbearance as we navigate the difficult terrain of contemporary technology.

Contemplation: The Practice, 7

After reviewing the guidelines for practice, take the following as your object of contemplation:

Though he practices concentration and insight as methods to aid one to the way, in the end he does not sink into tranquil extinction--such is the practice of the bodhisattva.  Though fully aware that all things are without birth or extinction, he adorns his body with auspicious features--such is the practice of the bodhisattva.

Vimalakirti Sutra, p. 74

Programming Note:  There will be no contemplation posted next week, as I will be out of town and away from the computer.  Continue with this one until I return.

Programming Notice

I will be posting less frequently to this blog from here on out. This is because much of what needed to be said earlier this summer has been said, and there's a record of it; because more of my time is committed to preparing for regular sangha meetings now that we are meeting in person as a sangha once more; and because the academic year is underway again, meaning that I am once more teaching and writing and... surviving, even thriving sometimes.

The weekly contemplations will continue, as will other occasional announcements and whatever else seems useful to put up here.

Just to be clear about this...

My comments here on this blog are intended to be useful and helpful for people interested in putting Tendai Buddhism into practice in an everyday way outside of Japan.

Any and all mistakes you might find are my own responsibility, and do not reflect on my teachers or the teachings. I appreciate it when they are brought to my attention so I can set them right.

Thank you for reading and joining in. Now, back to our regularly scheduled bodhi...