User:Larry Rosenfeld

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[edit] main Wikipedia contributions[1]

the Buddhist Path

Role: Disciple. Practices: Buddhist meditation, Clear Knowing, the Middle Way, Recollections, Reflections on Repulsiveness, Threefold training. Phenomena: Aggregates, Clinging, Fetters, the Great Elements, Sense Bases. Discourses: Anapanasati Sutta, Dhammacakkappavattana Sutta, Satipatthana Sutta.

Buddhist householder life

Role: Householder. Practices: Offerings, Prostrations, Sabbath. Discourses: Dhammika Sutta, Dighajanu Sutta, Sigalovada Sutta.

other Buddhism-related items

Inter-disciplinary overview: Buddhism and psychology. Templates: DisplayTranslations, LayBuddhistPractices (footer), LayTheravadaPractices (footer), LayTheravadaRebirth, PaliCanonSamanaViews, PeoplePaliCanon.
Wikiproject_Buddhism This user is a member of the WikiProject Buddhism.

[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.[2] 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.

[edit] favorite external links

Favorite external sites for developing WP articles:

[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)

[edit] work

  • 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)

[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.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Bolded items, I started or completely rewrote; others I significantly expanded
  2. ^ 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:
  3. ^ Thanks to User:Sacca for pointing out this invaluable link!


The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
awarded for Larry's attitude of metta and mudita
Greetings, Sacca 07:21, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
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