A Trip to Town Today, and a Trip to Guangzhou Soon

I "went into town" today and bought my blood pressure pills; ate a veggie sub at NYPD Pizza; and went shopping at Metro for groceries. I also started reading The White Tiger for fun (and it is fun).

Reading Zen Baggage has me hot to go visit some major temples. While researching temples in Guangzhou, I found this great homepage by a Singapore-based Buddhist: http://waynedhamma.blogspot.com/ I highly recommend browsing around. (Lots of good stuff on Guangdong temples in the archives for October 2008-January 2009).

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Here's today's new material:

• 365 Secrets of Happiness: Write a Poem and Give It to Someone (revive a lost art)
• Buddhism Simplified: The Dancing Girls (the "last straw" for the Buddha-to-be)
• Aphorisms of a Derelict Yogi: "Being born in a garage don't make you a Buick" (enlightenment isn't hereditary)
• America: Bodie, CA (a genuine "ghost town")