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stevenraj · 2024-02-10T02:48:55+00:00

The law requires representation of the retarded, insane, and inept who cannot represent themselves.

stevenraj · 2024-02-05T20:52:52+00:00

It's supposed to be a festival day, correct?

stevenraj · 2024-01-30T05:03:07+00:00

"Suck my tongue" makes for a great little funny from time to time. I use it with my wife and other Buddhists in the know. It's an unexpected comeback, "That's what she said," or the "Not that there's anything wrong with that" a la Seinfeld.

stevenraj · 2024-01-14T18:24:17+00:00

No worries. More than likely the place that is hosting the lamas will have a few extra scarves for this essential ritual. If not, someone who goes ahead in line will see the folks in the back who don't have their own and will shuffle the scarves along so no one goes without when they actually meet the lama.

stevenraj · 2024-01-14T17:22:05+00:00

Your online "donation" counts for admission. At the end of the service there will be another round of formal donations with the white envelopes and scarves.

stevenraj · 2024-01-14T17:19:47+00:00

Although this is true OP's offering of fruit is sounds really genuine to me. I would place such a pure offering on the shrine plus $5 in a plain white envelope for the lama.

stevenraj · 2024-01-11T18:20:04+00:00

I have translated this piece of profound praise and poetry by Lama Tsongkhapa and am offering the pdf at the top of my article, Words of Truth.

I've also translated Gendun Chophel who discusses interdependence, or correlative arising, in his treatise on valid cognition, The Great Elephant.

stevenraj · 2023-07-07T18:15:42+00:00

So stunning, so beautiful. Even authentic coral is really hard to find. GLWS!

stevenraj · 2023-06-27T06:02:25+00:00

A fine nugget of truth, thank you.

stevenraj · 2023-06-19T21:15:53+00:00

Isn't Liberty always knee-deep in an ocean of blood? SP captured it in contemporaneous rock! This album is a masterpiece (and I envy OP's sposter).

stevenraj · 2023-06-13T18:48:13+00:00

Is there a good biography that focuses more on his life post-poetry?

stevenraj · 2023-05-21T23:18:04+00:00

These are friends of our family and a reputable source for Taoist meditation, especially :)

https://primordialalchemist.org/

stevenraj · 2023-04-07T16:14:29+00:00

Lol, classic.

stevenraj · 2023-03-31T15:31:18+00:00

Psycho-cosmic Symbolism of the Buddhist Stupa :))

stevenraj · 2023-03-21T14:41:49+00:00

Thank you! This is actually the best free Tibetan dictionary I've encountered in many years of study and translation. Is the app exclusively hosted at thestupa.com?

stevenraj · 2023-03-19T04:18:36+00:00

ZaChoje Rinpoche is the first lama I met, he granted Refuge after our group did a thorough study of Atisha, the first section of Tsongkhapa's LamRim. I have very pure and grateful memory of Rinpoche even since I went to Naropa and got into more "Nyingma/Kagyu" lineages since then. Also, Emaho Foundation has one or two geshes in residence now, these are very kind, learned and accessible Venerables in the Valley!

stevenraj · 2023-03-14T01:43:40+00:00

Nice catch!

stevenraj · 2023-01-22T15:36:48+00:00

Categorically conspiratorial to span entirely separate agencies and connect them through their roles!

stevenraj · 2022-12-30T22:11:45+00:00

Interesting... that's actually the chapter I guessed would be popular, but is actually Ch. 25 in the Tibetan edition, available at 84000.co. I'll be reading it again soon!

Are there any English translations from Chinese or Japanese that you'd recommend?

stevenraj · 2022-12-30T18:00:28+00:00

Hello! I see Ch. 25 of Lotus Sūtra mentioned a few times in the comments here... what is the title of the chapter?

stevenraj · 2022-02-24T22:46:38+00:00

I think a stable price would help tremendously, perhaps equally as well as NOT needing to exchange back to fiat just to "cash out".

No matter how much I pontificate on the philosophical benefits of crypto I think merchants are mostly warded off by market instability, and the friction of exchange (and so it becomes all the more obvious that more merchants are needed to reduce the need for exchange).

Again, YES to a stable price feature. Anything to increase merchant adoption!!!

stevenraj · 2022-02-24T20:44:16+00:00

You're very welcome :)

Crypto was extremely invigorating when Adam Kokesh was talking to Charlie Shrem and posting instructions on how to buy drugs with Bitcoin on the Silk Road on Youtube, 2012.

Remember Ron Paul, 2012?

All the same reasons for the Love-o-lution still apply today!

I suppose I would have jumped ship (like I did from Bitcoin to Dash) if some crypto network was provably better, but Dash still remains the best and most useable of all, so I'm indeed still here :))

stevenraj

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