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<\/a><\/p>\nToday is the first anniversary of putting up this blog. I started it just to play around and now its become an important part of my life.<\/span><\/p>\n Over 270 posts \u2013 talk about a gas bag! My sweet lord\u2026.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t get the counters up until the fall but if they reflect actual human visits (of which you gotta wonder \u2013 over 10,000 different visitors from the US, 1,100 from Britain, and even somebody from Mongolia \u2013 dang) then quite a few folks are peeking at this. 65 followers too \u2013 cool.<\/p>\n I\u2019m grateful for James Ford\u2019s Monkey Mind inspiration and for everyone that has visited and commented. Thank you!<\/p>\n Seems to me that internet Buddhism<\/a> might be a third turning of the dharma<\/a> wheel \u2013 preceded by monastic and lay practice. They aren\u2019t mutually exclusive, of course. I know monks who have large numbers of friends on Facebook, for example (which I don\u2019t really get but anyway\u2026). And our little practice group of practitioners here at Transforming Through Play Temple has been refreshed by the various influences blowing through blog comments. So we\u2019re all chopping it up together.<\/p>\n A growing number of people (who knows how many but I\u2019m wondering if it\u2019s actually larger than the number showing up at dharma centers) receive teachings and connect with other practitioners exclusively through the internet. I don\u2019t know of any really successful internet dharma business models that have established significant revenue streams<\/span><\/span> yet (italicized portion said with tongue in cheek) but I suppose that\u2019s coming.<\/span><\/p>\n As for me, I like the donation model because it doesn\u2019t work very well. Wonderful inoculation against getting all carried away by greed for fame and profit, \u201cselling water by the river\u201d as they say. But, shucks, if you want to make a tax deductible donation, go ahead and click over there on the right sidebar, way down near the bottom. Go ahead, challenge my practice!<\/p>\n In closing, a sincere thank you<\/span><\/span>, dear reader, for giving what might be <\/span>the<\/span><\/span> most precious gift \u2013 your attention.<\/span><\/p>\n Today is the first anniversary of putting up this blog. I started it just to play around and now its become an important part of my life. Over 270 posts \u2013 talk about a gas bag! My sweet lord\u2026. I didn\u2019t get the counters up until the fall but if they reflect actual human visits […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n