<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5c53a416-df2f-49bc-93be-4498cf677498/EAEA0EEC-2934-4A1D-BE98-437CD87C0193/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,4261,0,0,1,0" href="http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,4261,0,0,1,0" style="font-size: 11px;">www.buddhistchannel.tv</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,4261,0,0,1,0"><DIV> <H1>Finding dharma in the 'me' era</H1> <H3>By GARY STERN, THE JOURNAL NEWS, June 5, 2007</H3> <P> <STRONG>KENT, New York (USA)</STRONG> -- The meaning of self is on the table at Chuang Yen Monastery - in particular, what Buddhism teaches about letting go of the self - when a quirky question comes up in class: Could the Buddha make it in America today?</p> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,4261,0,0,1,0"><STRONG><IMG align="left" alt="" src="http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/picture/upload/kent(2).jpg" />&lt;&lt; Stuart Bayer/The Journal News<BR />Two dozen students are part of the class that meets every other Saturday to study Buddhism at the Chuang Yen Monastery in Kent. The Venerable Thich Tri Hoang leads the program, in which students commit to three years of in-depth, participatory exploration and meditation.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=60,4261,0,0,1,0"><P>How would he get through to a culture obsessed with selfness, in which therapists, Oprah and cosmetic surgeons join forces to polish and buff the individual? A popular magazine at supermarket checkouts is called, simply, "Self."</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/EAEA0EEC-2934-4A1D-BE98-437CD87C0193/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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