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Buddhism – Green Gulch Farm

Green Gulch Farm is a Buddhist practice center in the Japanese Soto Zen tradition offering training in Zen meditation, study, and gardening. It is located in Marin County, just north of San Francisco, in a valley that opens out onto the Pacific Ocean at Muir Beach. While it is a residential monastery, it also includes a guest house and conference center. Founded in 1972, the center also manages an organic farm and gardens in holding of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The lands were purchased from rancher George Wheelwright, a co-founder of Polaroid, with the stipulation that the farm always remain open to the public. Towards that end, Green Gulch offers a meditation service every Sunday to the public and no reservation is necessary.  Find more at http://www.delightinhim.com/buddhism-entry-2-green-gulch-farm-.html 

Sikhism - Initial Thoughts Unfold

Sikhism, the fifth largest religion in the world, with 23 million followers, is a belief in a universal god or the universe itself, waheguru, and the path of ‘truthful living’ to become one with it.  The founder, Guru Nanak Dev (1469-1539) and nine other successive Sikh Gurus, culminating in the final Sikh Guru, the sacred text Adi Granth penned by Guru Gobind Singh (1666-1708), provide the devout with hymns, meditations, and janam sakhis or life stories of the Sikh Gurus.  Sikhism from the Sanskrit root meaning disciple does not espouse a life of ascetism as a means to salvation but rather ‘detachment in civic life’ through personal meditation, ethical conduct, and charity to the greater community.  Find out more at http://www.delightinhim.com/sikhism-initial-thoughts-unfold.html

Also in the news, The Christian promise of eternal life, like Ponce de Leon’s quest for the Fountain of Youth,[2] is both a comfort and yet an allure to seekers. It is a bridge of hope by which even reasoning skeptics can justify to themselves taking that “leap of faith” in God. Find more at http://www.delightinhim.com/the-false-hope-of-immortality.html

Buddhism - Initial Thoughts Unfold

The art exhibit for Buddhism at the Asian Art Museum arises out of the Hindu collection.  Buddhism is the philosophy espoused by the Buddha, or Enlightened One, who lived around 400 BC in Northern India, and has become the fourth largest religion with 230 to 500 million followers.  The earliest accounts of his life were passed down by oral tradition until written 400 years after his death.  The museum relied upon the writings of Clark Warren Henry and Edward J. Thomas when describing his life.  Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, was born a prince and his king father was warned that his heir would leave for the monastic life if he ever saw the world’s suffering.  For that reason, the Buddha was surrounded by luxury and isolated within the palace.  But as a teenager he left the palace four times and on three occasions saw a sick man, an old man, and a corpse, and subsequently became a seeker.  Disillusioned with life, he renounced his life of royalty, and studied suffering and self-searching, until he attained truth and enlightenment.  He is considered to be an awakened teacher who escaped the cycle of suffering and rebirth or reincarnation. Find out more at http://www.delightinhim.com/buddhism-initial-thoughts-unfold.html