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...tried to continue reading. I had to finish multiple books of The Bodhicharyavatara, a central text of Mahayana Buddhism, for my tutorial that afternoon. It’s the guide to being a bodhisattva, one who has dedicated oneself not just to attaining enlightenment, but also to saving “all beings from suffering.” “All beings” includes flies. Someone who has taken the bodhisattva vows has dedicated himself or herself to eons of work while remaining in the cycle of samsara—the cycle of death and rebirth characterized...
...definitely a perfectionist in my younger days,” Moore said. “[But] you learn a sort of Zen Buddhism-type thing that you should just be in the moment and you learn how to react to things going on in that moment...
...Mingwei’s hope—and his belief—that the Harvard seer will be a human mirror that reflects the participant’s existence back to himself. He says that the “backbone of Buddhism,” if not of all religions, is the question “Who is the self? Who is the self asking this question?” His 1999 “Reflections,” at Wellesley College’s Davis Museum, can be seen as a sort of intellectual precursor to the Seers Project...
...many subjects in Zadie Smith's second novel--Buddhism, Jewish mysticism, the Hollywood studio system--one that she presumably did not have to research was the bug-light allure of celebrity. In 2000, at age 24, she became deservedly famous for White Teeth, a sprawling, erudite comedy about culture clash and bioengineering in postcolonial Britain. Brilliant, young and beautiful, she became a favorite of the British media, which followed her love life and hairstyle changes with a fervor Americans reserve for cast members of Friends...
Composed by Carson Cooman ’04, the piece involves texts from Jewish, Christian, Buddhism, Muslim and Baha’i traditions...