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CRAZY WISDOM – THE MOVIE

Earth, water, fire, and all the elements,
The animate and the inanimate, the trees and greenery and so on,
All partake of the nature of self-existing equanimity,
Which is quite simply what the Great Wrathful One is.
In the spontaneous wisdom of the trikaya
I take refuge with body, speech and mind.
In order to free those who suffer at the hands of the three lords of materialism
And are afraid of external phenomena, which are their own projections.
I take this vow in meditation.
The Saddhana of Mahamudra (excpt)

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TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

Recently I was asked to express my “teaching philosophy”, I found the exercise quite useful and I thought I’d copy and edit the results here on my blog. What I found first and foremost is that I don’t have a teaching ‘philosophy’ because I don’t want to develop a personal dogma toward teaching. Instead I work with a set of general principles and values that constantly change overtime, maybe that is what a philosophy is! Technically I teach animation, design sometimes, most of the time it’s just a pretext to help people seeing more clearly about more than that. I don’t teach methods, procedures or rules. Overall I just teach how to learn because that is what people need most. That is what helped me the most. Here are the points that I identified as guiding my teaching:

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TEACUP & SKULLCUP BOOK REVIEW

One day I searched ‘zen trungpa’ on the internet and the Amazon page for The Teacup and the Skullcup: Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche on Zen and Tantra came up first. So intriguing! I have been a zen student for a while and also read a majority of Chögyam Trungpa’s work. He has been my main ‘book’ teacher. The book was published in 2007. This is not so much a book review but rather a summary of what I discovered in connection with my own experience while reading it.

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SEX, SIN & ZEN – BOOK REVIEW

I don’t read many buddhist books, I don’t read many buddhist blogs either. I did read Brad Warner’s Hardcore Zen a long time ago and I enjoyed it for it’s freshness and different approach. I bought his latest book, Sex, Sin and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between, as a iPhone Kindle book for $7.99 after browsing through it on the shelf at a bookstore. Usually on my iPhone I read books that I don’t really care about, something I can read when I’m standing in line somewhere. At the end of the day I truly enjoyed this one again.

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