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[edit] current Wikipedia to-do list
[edit] main Wikipedia contributions
- Buddhist practices:
- Buddhist concepts:
- Buddhist literature:
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[edit] main Wikipedia interests
- Where beneficial, in articles on Buddhism, attempt to clarify various streams of thought, such as between the Theravada and the Mahayana traditions.
- Where beneficial, in articles on Buddhism, introduce traditional material to counterbalance an article's often unidentified dependence on contemporary English-language interpretations which might include non-Buddhist elements from Western psychotherapy and Western philosophy.[1] While I can greatly appreciate sincere practitioners' desire to foster the adoption of Buddhism in English-language societies by integrating it with current popular paradigms, I think it is beneficial to at least be clear about what is traditional Buddhism and what is the result of ones integrative efforts.
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[edit] influences
Why do my contributions to Wikipedia read as they do?
[edit] demographics
- body: 40+ year old male
- ethnic identity: Ashkenazi family-of-origin
- geography: NYC born & educated
- native language: Queens English
[edit] school
- BA, Psych. (minors: Phil.; CS/Math); ΦΒΚ
- MSW (concentrations: Families & Children; Mental Health)
- computer programmer (13 years, IBM)
- volunteer battered women's advocate (4 years)
- co-facilitator of group for men who battered women (1 year)
- intern therapist for juvenile sex offenders and their victims (1 year)
- CPS social worker (7+ years)
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[edit] daily practices
[edit] recently (incompletely) read books that have left an impresssion
- Bhikkhu Bodhi (2005). In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pāli Canon. Boston: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0861714911.
- Nyanaponika Thera (2nd ed., 1986). The Roots of Good and Evil (The Wheel No. 251/253). Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publications Society. ISSN 0049-7541. Also anthologized in: Nyanaponika Thera, Bhikkhu Bodhi (ed.) & Erich Fromm (fwd.) (1986). Visions of Dhamma: Buddhist Writings of Nyanaponika Thera. York Beach, ME: Weiser Books. ISBN 0877286698.
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The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar |
awarded for Larry's attitude of metta and mudita
Greetings, Sacca 07:21, 14 October 2006 (UTC) |
[edit] end notes
- ^ My kalyana mitta Steve Seiberling has pointed out the two following though-provoking talks that attempt to unravel Western religious presumptions from traditional Theravada Dharma:
