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Theft and random acts of kindness for Daeung Sunim

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While Daeung Sunim has been in Toronto, his laptop, cellphone and GPS were stolen. Here’s the article about it from The Toronto Star:  http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1222306–korean-monk-on-continental-bicycle-odyssey-has-laptop-gps-stolen-in-toronto Fortunately, from adversity has come the opportunity for acts of kindness, in the form of offers to assist Sunim in re-provisioning him for the next leg of his journey. Here is... Read more »

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Cults, crowdsourcing and common sense

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I’ve been having a few online conversations recently about Buddhist cults, and whether or not I should be de-listing certain centres from the canadianbuddhism.info directory on the basis of allegations about them. My position has been to take centres at face value and list them, but to openly share negative news on the Sumeru website.... Read more »

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Most Ven. Hsin Ting, Fo Guang Shan, Toronto: June 30/July 1, 2012

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What’s an American Buddhist?

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From the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/whats-an-american-buddhist/2012/06/17/gJQAJCQrjV_blog.html

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Buddhist Right Speech, from the IEET

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Here’s a thought-provoking piece about parallels in Right Speech in Buddhism and Christianity and how they can best be applied in today’s culture, from Manitoba-based Alex McGilvery for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET)… http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/McGilvery201206171

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