* Alternatives -- Accessing the power within through
Hypnotherapy, Counseling, NLP, Tapes, Alternative health, Rebirthing, Astrology,Tarot,
Mysteries, Mind resources, UFO research, all offered by Australian hypnotherapist Matthew
Favaloro. .
* Amnesty International
-- This organisation does a lot of important compassionate work worldwide, and deserves
any form of support one can give.
* "Answerman" Service -- A
site called "allexperts.com" refers any question you send in to a specialist in
that field for an answer. These people have gathered an impressive array of
volunteer experts to conduct this operation.
* Animal Rights Resources
-- a central clearing house of international animal web sites.
 * BBC Educational Web Guide -- A
superb resource for quality educational resources on the internet!
*
BookFinder.com -- 10,000 booksellers, 10,000,000 books, 1 search engine (for
new, 2nd hand or out of print books).
*The Cave Of Magic --
An intriguing little magic trick performed online -- if anyone knows how they do this,
please let me know!
* Chicken
Soup For The Soul - Home Delivery! -- a free inspirational e-mail service from
Mark Victor Hansen and Jack Canfield, co-authors of the New York Times best-selling
Chicken Soup for the Soul series.
*
Conflict Resolutiona Center / People for Peace -- Not only does this site
offer great information & resources for inter-personal conflict resolution, but
there's also lots of kids activities here to promote world peace, which starts at
home!
* Environmental Education Resource
Directory -- a one-stop central clearing house for students and educators to
get a multitude of valuable resources, global projects to join, resources etc etc.
*
Erratic Impact -- a comprehensive philosophy research database, categorised by author, subject and period, with links to
additional resources.
* FactNet
-- a cult-busting type group that is well organised with lots of info & contacts.
"Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network" is
a nonprofit library, archive, news distributor, and referral service protecting freedom of mind from harms caused by mind
control and cults.
* The Flick Filosopher -- Not
your average movie review page -- this site offers thoughtful and witty reviews from The
Flick Chic, who has some different and valuable ideas about movies and the industry.
*
Global Psychics -- Enter the world of holistic mystics and practical magic. Your most
extensive source for all things metaphysical, spiritual and esoteric... everything you
wanted to know about the prophecies, the new millennium, Y2K and more....
* Greenpeace -- say no
more. Visit this site to get the full picture on how much eco-terrorism is being
conducted on the planet at this very moment.
* Guide Dog Association -- - animals
helping people -- need I say more?
* Health For Humanity --
Uniting people, perspectives,
and resources for the advancement of world health. Health for Humanity, conceived in 1990 by a
group of physicians with common goals, is an interdisciplinary, interracial and
intercultural organization created to enable individuals and companies whose work impacts
on health to offer their services and resources -- in a new form -- for the promotion of
health throughout the world.
*
The Humane Society International (Australian Branch) -- the people at Sydney
branch are friends of mine, and they are doing a diligent and skilful job of promoting
Animals' Rights. This site has a FunForKids section!
* The
Hunger Site -- These people are making a difference! Just click on this
site and food will be donated to a hungry person by a corporate sponsor.
* International Dolphin Watch
-- a great site by Dr Horace Dobbs, who is doing some major important work! And it's a fun
site to visit.
* International Institute for
Philosophical Consulting -- an independent consulting service dedicated to coping with human problems.
Nowadays, many who would have seen a pastor, priest, or rabbi now turn to us with
philosophical problems. IIPC consultants use philosophical (as opposed to psychological,
clinical, or theological) models to help our clients find the meaning that is specific to
their own lives and tasks.
* Internet Psychology
-- a resource for personal counselling and crisis management, and assistance in setting up
your own psychological resource centre.
* Life Now -- Books & sounds
for sale. "Our
vision is to help all of us find answers, look beyond, realize our unlimited potential,
grow and come together as one."
* Moggies -- Moggies is devoted to the
health and well-being of kittens and cats everywhere, and features the most comprehensive
listings of cat-related sites & info I've seen.
* Noam Chomsky's Political
Texts Online --One of America's foremost living gadflies.
* Osabel The Cat Behaviorist -- an
online psychological counselling service for your pet.
* New Jersey Animal Rights
Alliance -- we have formed a unique organization that has taken its message
to the streets, to the people, to the government. We have forged alliances with animal
rights activists throughout New Jersey, the United States and the world. We are a
no-nonsense group strictly focused on the bottom line. Our comrades are tight-knit and
unmovable in our passion for doing what is right for the animals who live each and
everyday of their lives in agony.
* OneList -- This is where you can
find any number of discussion groups and mailing lists to subscribe to, all of them
organised into categories that make it easy to find your own special interest group.
An alternative site for this is, to find additional groups not listed above, is at http:www. liszt.com
The Ocean Eyes Zen Center,
Long Beach, California. The Zen
Center and it's sattelite sitting groups offer a place to practice and share with a
community of like minded practitioners. We offer together action along with mutual
support, as well as supporting the local community with a place to come and learn and
meditate together.
* Petnet -- a nice family-oriented animals site, with plenty of
useful information for the pet owner. Also, this site has enough links to other animal
sites to keep you busy for quite a while.
* Therapy Walk -- A Walking Mental Health Practic,
created by psychotherapist Sara Denning.
*
Third Age -- Here is our standard descriptive
text: ThirdAge.com is a website helping a generation change what it means to be 45,
55, 65. ThirdAgers are smart, adventurous and pursuing passions, and ThirdAge.com
provides the tools and resources to help
*
Virtual Dolphin -- this site a beautiful labour of love to service some
inspirational projects being carried out with dolphins and children.
* Links To
Recipe Sites -- just what it says -- a very big food resourc
* TuBears --
50,000 recipes with a search engine, and more! A top cool site.
* Wears The Baby
-- Ideas, information, and useful goodies for mindful families practicing all
types of education, health care, nutrition, and spirituality.
* Web of Addiction -- The Web
of Addictions is dedicated to providing accurate information and help resources for
alcohol and other drug addictions.
* "YK2 Millenium
Bug" De-Mystified -- "Whether, in the final analysis, Y2K does
or does not create serious problems, it could prove to be a window for accelerated
personal and social transformation, if we meet whatever comes with intelligence and creativity."
* Zero Population Growth Page -- What
the world needs now.
BUDDHIST
SITES
* Access To Insight --
Gateways to Theravada Buddhism "Not to do any evil / To cultivate good / To
purify one's own mind: This is the teaching of the Buddhas." -- Dhammapada 183.
Lots of electronic Pali text available from this site.
* Amida Trust
-- Amida Trust is attracting dedicated people seriously interested in
developing humanitarian projects based on Buddhist principles in order to help overcome
suffering in the world.
* Asian Studies
-- like its subtitle implies, WWW
Virtual Library is a large-scale, distributed, collaborative project providing an
up-to-date, subject-oriented guide to networked scholarly documents, resources and
information systems concerned with social sciences research on Asia.
* Book Review
-- Bhikkhu Bodhi reviews "BuddhismWithout Beliefs" by Steven Batchelor,
published by the Journal Of Buddhist Ethics . This book explores the effects of transplanting the
dharma from the traditional Eastern cultural context of faith and tradition, into the
secular context of the modern West, and the implications for Western lay practioners.
* Buddhanet -- a great all-around Buddhist
site with a wealth of information, chat, and links to more sites.
*
Buddhism -- This is an extremely concise and lucid introduction to Buddhism
-- an excellent starting platform for further study, in my opinion.
*
Buddhism And Psychotherapy -- an intelligent site devoted to the journey
"from no self-esteem to no-self esteem."
* Buddhism Depot
-- a valuable starting point for making contacts and having live dharma chat, joining
a meditation group, online bookstore, Buddhist art gallery, articles, quotes and more..
* Buddhism In A Nutshell
-- it is what it says.
* The Buddhist
Council (of NSW, Australia) -- a very helpful site for Buddhists, the Council
is hosting the 20th General Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (and Buddhist
Youth), in November 1998. This site also has Buddhist news items.
* Buddhist Resource Guide -- an in-depth list of Buddhist
resources compiled by scholars from the Buddhis Academic Discussion List.
* Buddhist Search Engine
-- This is an internet search service specialising in Buddhist sites, and it
donates some of its profits to needy and worthwhile causes.
* The
Buddhist Society of Western Australia -- A brand new site, with information
about the Society's activities and interesting articles from the Sangha of Bodhinyana
Monastery.
* Buddhist Studies
& The Arts -- this site has a great diversity of different sort of stuff,
from art to shiatsu to fonts for translators. It also offers commentary on the differences
between the different groups within Buddhism, and the different national/cultural
directions within Buddhist ranks. You'll also find lots of interesting Buddhist and
related links from here.
* Chagdud Gonpa Online --
Good Tibetan Buddhism resources, plus a featured guru, escapee from Tibet and founder of
the organisation, H E Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche.
* Chattha Sangayana Tipitaka --
a free Pali Canon resource for online and CD-ROM.
*
Christian-Buddhist Dialogue -- a good site for inter-faith articles, news and
resources.
* The Community Of The
Little Sparrow -- a Christian/Buddhist
community (sangha) based in meditation, prayer and the teachings of Holy Father Saint
Francis and Lord Buddha.
* Cyber-Buddhist
Initiative -- a community project for bringing useful Buddhist information to
the citizens of the Internet. It is also meant to arouse the creative use of the Internet
as a tool to spread the Dhamma and to helping each other.
* The Cyber-Temple
-- a very now site with lots of interesting stuff and events.
* Dark Zen / The
Zennist -- The teachings of mystical zen Buddhism, with excellent articles
and book reviews.
* Dharma Net -- calling itself "Gateways To Buddhism"
this site offers an impressively comprehensive array of links to Everything Buddhist --
news, discussions, chat, teachings, resources -- you name it!
* Dragon Flower
Ch'an Temple -- This site in America provides English translations of
important Buddhist texts, mainly from Chinese but also from the Pali and sanskrit.
* Earth Sangha -- The Earth Sangha is a nonsectarian, nonprofit Buddhist
environmental organization. We began operations in 1998. Our mission is to encourage the
practice of Buddhism as an answer to the global environmental crisis, and to do practical
conservation work of a kind that expresses the Buddhist ideal of compassion for all
beings. We are open to people of all backgrounds--Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike.
* E-Dharma Magazine --
a brand new online "Buddhist Culture Magazine" which offers a
"contemporary" slant on being a Buddhist in modern society. They are so
cool they even run Dharma The Cat cartoons!
* Enlightening
Internet Resources -- an excellent collection of links.
* Essentials
Of Buddhism -- "Concise" is the word for this site, which lists the
main points of Buddhis teachings in summary form. It also has some great links and book
listings.
*
Family Dharma Connections -- is devoted to Buddhist families
with children and others interested in sharing Dharma and Buddhism with children.
* Free Buddhist Books,
Periodicals and Online Teachings -- a high-quality source of online learning,
info and resources from the Theravada tradition.
* Fundamental
Buddhism Explained -- an essentialised explanation of Buddhism based on the
Pali canon, with sources for obtaining Pali text.
* Glossary -- this site offers a fairly comprehensive
glossary of Buddhist terms, plus a comprehensive set of links to other Buddhist-related
sites.
* Guide To
Meditation -- a very helpful site for learning meditation online.
* Heartland Sangha -- a
group of American Buddhists who practice a non-dualistic, non-sectarian, way of
“Oneness” drawn from the original teachings of Gautama Buddha, Jodo Shinshu, Zen
Buddhism and engaged Buddhism. We have members from several Buddhist traditions.
* Highway 50 Zen -- "Zen is
drinking when thirsty, sleeping when sleepy & taking the trash out on ondays" -- Harry
Iwatsuki. Explore this rest area for eye-candy and humor. Poetry. Stories about
Zen masters. Perhaps you will find a bit of mental refreshment here as well.
* IBC -
Buddhist Book Service -- The IBC Buddhist Book Service is a nonprofit
international mail order service providing over 300 hard to find Buddhist titles including
books, pamphlets, video cassettes, and audio cassettes. By maintaining an inventory
of these materials in the United States the IBC makes it possible for these materials to
be distributed faster then if they had to be ordered directly from the Asian publishers.
All proceeds from these sales go to support the IBC and its mission of spreading Buddhist
teachings by teaching vipassana meditation ( free of charge ) to anyone willing to learn.
* Insight Online Magazine
-- a quarterly journal with excellent interviews and articles.
* International Book Finders -- (email
address only) To locate any obscure publication, Peter Krantz at International Bookfinders
is fast and reliable, and will airmail it to you anywhere in the world.
* The Japan Tibet
Home Page -- a great gateway to the Buddhist networks of Japan and Tibet.
* Jigme
Dorje's Buddhist Dharma Page -- A very interesting and valuable Tibetan
Buddhist site, with lots of teachings, articles and "gems."
* Journal Of Buddhist Ethics --
serious stuff for serious readers.
* Kalavinka Dharma World -- formed
as a non-profit Buddhist organization devoted to the propagation of Dharma. The site
features a great collection of Buddhist links, including "all linkable Buddhist Art
on the web," and "the largest English Language Buddhist bookstore in the
world," plus Buddhist Translations, Dharma Articles, an Art Gallery, Gift Shop and
more.
* Karen Jeffries'
Index To Buddhist Web Sites -- what more can I say?.
* Kosei Publishing
Company -- a valuable resource for books, magazines etc.
* Kunzang Palyul Chöling (KPC) is a center for the study and
practice of Tibetan Buddhism in the Nyingma tradition. KPC is the seat of the Palyul
lineage in the Western world, and is headed by Jetsunma Ahkön Lhamo,
spiritual director and resident Lama.
* "Land Of No Buddha --
Reflections Of A Skeptical Buddhist" by Pali Scholar Richard P Hayes -- This
is a book and author which I personally consider to have an important clarifying influence
on issues arising in a Western Buddhist context. "The argument is made that those who
have turned to Buddhism in North America form part of a larger movement on this continent,
a movement of people who have grown tired of the shambles that our culture has become and
are seeking an intelligent alternative to the unparalleled materialism of our society on
the one hand and to the many mindless alternatives to materialism that have arisen to
provide people escape from what really is an untenable way of life."
* The
Lighter Side Of Buddhism -- a good Theme Site for Buddhist jokes &
anecdotes.
* Mahindarama: Pali
Sunday School -- a rich educational resource, with a full spectrum of
offerings, including Jataka tales for children, a collection of 700 suttas, and much more.
*
Malaysia Singapore Engaged Buddhist Network -- We invite you to be part of this casually connected
network which we call the ENGAGED BUDDHIST NETWORK to help one another to be more
spiritually engaged so that we could be more socially engaged.
The
Meditation Lounge -- "Promoting Friendship, Knowledge and Love are the
only goals worth pursuing in one's lifetime. All other endeavors are but
distractions on the Path of the Seeker".
* Meditation and Mental Culture -- an authentic guide to
mindfulness meditations.
* Meditation Taught Oline - Wildmind --
Teaching meditation online, by a Buddhist monk and author. This site includes
personal interactive teaching, not just posted text.
* Ńánavíra
Thera Dhamma Page -- An Alternative Approach to the Buddha's
Teaching.
The aim of this web site is to make more widely available the writings of the late Ven.
Ńánavíra Thera which, though of extraordinary quality and depth, do not -- for
different reasons -- attract any of the established Buddhist publishers. It
* Ngapa File
-- The Inner Tantra teachings and
practice style of the gö-kar-chang-lo'i-dé (or the Ngak'phang Tradition) is particularly
relevant to people trying to integrate "Tibetan" Buddhism with
"normal" family life in the modern world.
* Nichiren's Coffee House: Interfaith Links on
the Lotus Sutra -- "All the various scriptures are quoted in order to
increase one's faith, and all of the various commentaries are quoted in order to aid one's
attainment." Chanting Namu Myohorengekyo "[Meditational insight] is the
warp and all dharmas are the woof, and all the various texts are woven together here as in
no other tradition within Buddhism."
The Great Teacher Chan-jan of Miao-lo-ssu temple in China [711-782]
* Nirvana
-- a rich and varied feast of philosophy, art, photography, music and all sorts of
cultural delights, including some sections devoted to Buddhism. This site is in
English and Spanish, created by Leonardo Alvarado.
* Orient-Net
-- a major index to Buddhist sources & resources in Asia.
* Refuge For Skeptical
Buddhists -- an "alternative" Buddhis site for those who would like
to "shed 2,500 years of dross."
* SkyDancer --
This site is named in honor of the dakini, an important image of female power in Buddhism
-- and dedicated to feminist interpretations of Buddhist philosophy.
* Still
Point -- magazine of the Dharma Rain Zen Centre, of Portland, Oregon, USA.
This an interesting collection of content, with great links.
* Theravada
Archives: The Thai Forest Tradition -- This site has some excellent files for
downloading, containing rare lectures and notes from sessions held by Ajahn Chah and other
gurus from this tradition.
* The Think Sangha --
affiliated with INEB (International Network of Engaged Buddhists). The Think Sangha's core
activities are networking with other scholar-activists, producing Buddhist critiques and
models on social issues, and providing materials and resource persons for conferences on
social issues and workshops with grassroots movements.
* The Tricycle Hub -- Online Magazine -- one of Buddhism's major
magazine is online.
* Tibetan Prayer Flags & Banners -- This
site sells good quality Buddhist items.
* Unitarian-Universalist Buddhist
Fellowship -- this is a very intersting Inter-Faith site which has special
appeal for parents wishing to introduce their young children to Buddhist thinking: "In
recent years, Unitarian Universalists have increasingly been drawn to explore Buddhist
religious practices, especially seated meditation, in order to ground the "free and
responsible search for truth and meaning" that is one of the guiding principles of
the UU tradition. Meditation invites a direct and immediate experience of reality and
provides a balance to purely intellectual inquiry."
* The Vipassana Page
-- A nice site representing the Theravada tradition, with meditation info and links.
* What Is
Theravada Buddhism? -- (need I say more?).
* Wildmind
-- Teaching meditation online, by a Buddhist monk and author. This site includes
personal interactive teaching, not just posted text.
* Womens
Resources in Theravada Buddhism -- a good source of links.
* Zen In Daily Life -- A useful page
from Israel. Their goal is "to
teach Zazen as the direct way to penetrate True self and reach Satori (Enlightenment)
within daily life."
* Zen Stories To Tell Your
Neighbors -- exactly what it says. This is a unique and fascinating site
thoughtfully created by an American Professor of
Psychology -- worth browsing!
*
The Zen Mind -- The international cyber seeker's guide to meditation, Buddhism, health and
happiness. What is Zen Mind? Zen mind is a beginner’s mind. It is the ability to always be
a student. As the old saying goes, you cannot fill a cup that is already full. So through
meditation and Buddhist practice, we try to empty our minds of old thoughts and ideas to
make room for change, growth and new understandings. "In the beginner's mind
there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few." --
Shunryu Suzuki
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