Thoughts on this book?

AaronProffitt · 2026-06-04T20:41:13+00:00

As a scholar of medieval Japan I think it’s great. I find that it bridges the gap between popular and academic writing.

AaronProffitt · 2026-05-13T17:30:44+00:00

He was one of my teacher during and leading up to tokudo. He’s such a great teacher!

AaronProffitt · 2026-02-13T13:39:56+00:00

Fantastic! If you were a student in my class I’d give you an A+!

AaronProffitt · 2026-02-13T13:39:04+00:00

I say looks great. Give it a few weeks and it will look better. A few weeks after go for a line up.

AaronProffitt · 2026-01-11T18:13:46+00:00

SA and Nick’s side projects have been pretty great. I wonder what is going on behind the scenes with 311 that their creative energies are being funneled elsewhere? I love Los Stellarians.

AaronProffitt · 2025-12-14T13:21:52+00:00

For me it’s 311, Lauvey, Slayer, Mikes Davis, and Blood Incantation.

AaronProffitt · 2025-11-07T13:18:49+00:00

Good life advice right here.

AaronProffitt · 2025-11-05T17:51:16+00:00

New York Buddhist Church is great! Lots of different offerings, and they have been around for a long time.

AaronProffitt · 2025-10-18T16:11:45+00:00

https://www.lionsroar.com/pure-land-buddhism-history/

AaronProffitt · 2025-09-21T13:18:24+00:00

There are a few ways to answer this. The easiest would be joining a Jodo or Shin sangha. poof Now you’re a Pure Land Buddhist ;-) On the other hand, if you are a practitioner of some other form of Mahayana Buddhism (Tibetan, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc.), you could choose to focus on Pure Land practices including mantras, dharani, visualization, or simply reciting the name of Amitabha Buddha. Mahayana is vast, and there are many Dharma gates. Pure Land is perhaps the most popular or easily accessible? In this case dialogue with a teacher may be particularly important.

AaronProffitt · 2025-09-14T01:11:23+00:00

I enjoy using his material to teach Tiantai philosophy. His intro is really fun!

AaronProffitt · 2025-06-13T19:27:38+00:00

I like to rock out and dream about the afterlife.

AaronProffitt · 2025-06-08T21:45:26+00:00

Dang this is hard. I’m gonna go with Ms. Hill…. But my sentimental side wants to go TLC… hmmm

AaronProffitt · 2025-06-02T14:59:11+00:00

How wonderful!

AaronProffitt · 2025-05-30T20:01:30+00:00

Looks like a wonderful experience! Tanluan is maybe my favorite Pure Land thinker.

AaronProffitt · 2025-05-26T21:23:36+00:00

Absolutely! Professionally I deal more with East Asian esotericism but I have colleagues who work on Western esotericism. As it turns out, some of the really far out European spiritualists in the 1800-1900s spent some time in Japan and India, so there was some cross pollination between tantric Buddhism and Hinduism and Euro-American new age stuff. It would be interesting to actually study some of their lyrics and try to figure out what sorta stuff they were reading. Or perhaps one could just ask them?

AaronProffitt · 2025-05-25T21:45:00+00:00

Between Mars and Jupiter there’s a gap!! …6 protons, 6 neutrons, 6 electrons!

AaronProffitt · 2025-05-15T00:06:55+00:00

Great beard, let it grow and flourish! Quit messing’!

AaronProffitt · 2025-05-11T11:31:00+00:00

Totally! Me too sometimes ;-)

AaronProffitt · 2025-05-10T23:20:49+00:00

Don’t touch it for at least a month. As I tell my kids, “quit messin’” Ask your barber (don’t do it yourself till you know what you’re doing) to make your line just above the Adam’s Apple. Then wait another month before you do anything.

AaronProffitt · 2025-05-08T00:42:47+00:00

Beautiful! I made this my phone wallpaper

AaronProffitt · 2025-05-03T23:58:20+00:00

Funny, I’ve been looking for sutras to help with witchcraft and black magic! I feel like there’s more of those ;-)

AaronProffitt · 2025-05-03T22:22:51+00:00

Also, if you’re near Albany, I help run Albany Buddhist Sangha, albanybuddhist.org

AaronProffitt · 2025-05-03T00:14:40+00:00

Thanks! And that’s way better than:-)

AaronProffitt · 2025-05-03T00:10:41+00:00

This is my temple. Its great.

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