THE DHARMA BUMS: Dharma Talks
The Practice - September 23, 2008
Dedicated to the Dharma Bums - who have always had one ambition. To Practice
Milarepa:
If you try to get a patron
Who is rich, you will meet a foe.
He who likes to be surrounded
By crowds, will soon be disappointed.
He who hoards much wealth and money,
Is soon filled with vicious thoughts.
Meditate, my son Rechungpa,
And put your mind into the Dharma.
Realization will be won
At last by he who practices;
He who cannot practice
But only talks and brags,
Is always telling lies.
Milarepa:
If you try to get a patron
Who is rich, you will meet a foe.
He who likes to be surrounded
By crowds, will soon be disappointed.
He who hoards much wealth and money,
Is soon filled with vicious thoughts.
Meditate, my son Rechungpa,
And put your mind into the Dharma.
Realization will be won
At last by he who practices;
He who cannot practice
But only talks and brags,
Is always telling lies.
Thank You!!! - December 16, 2007
I want to thank everyone for your support and beautiful energy that you contributed to the DBC throughout 2007! It has been an amazing year for a place that opened with no sign, no website, no phone number, and no advertising. We believed that if we opened the doors and created the space for meditation, people would come and sit, which is exactly what happened!
We thank all the volunteers, sponsors, teachers, and Dharma Bums for making the DBC such an ideal place for the community to learn and practice meditation.
It is at this time we ask that each of you helps us with a donation to continue to support the work of the DBC. Any amount is greatly appreciated, as there is no amount too small.
We wish you all a happy holiday season and healthy New Year!
Peace,
The Dharma Bums
2007
We thank all the volunteers, sponsors, teachers, and Dharma Bums for making the DBC such an ideal place for the community to learn and practice meditation.
It is at this time we ask that each of you helps us with a donation to continue to support the work of the DBC. Any amount is greatly appreciated, as there is no amount too small.
We wish you all a happy holiday season and healthy New Year!
Peace,
The Dharma Bums
2007
Dharma Bum Revolution - July 25, 2007
"See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums
refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, and
general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about
writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures." --Jack Kerouac
refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, and
general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume, I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wandering around with rucksacks, going up to mountains to pray, making children laugh and old men glad, making young girls happy and old girls happier, all of 'em Zen Lunatics who go about
writing poems that happen to appear in their heads for no reason and also by being kind and also by strange unexpected acts keep giving visions of eternal freedom to everybody and to all living creatures." --Jack Kerouac