Here will be posted Dharma Talks given after services usually given on Sunday’s.
Well, here we are approaching the autumn equinox. Twice a year on our planet we have an equinox, a period of equal light and equal dark. Twice a year we take time during the equinox season to pay particular attention to observing the Six Paramitas. We find reference to Higan, which means crossing to the other shore, in the first chapter of the Lotus Sutra. “They had already trained themselves out of their compassion towards…
Portuguese translation appears after English When I am asked to explain the Eightfold Path I am quick to point out the ‘right’ in each of the eight right ways is not right as opposed to wrong, but is a search for what is most skillful. What will produce the greatest good, most value while causing the least harm. Right is a not about doctrine laying out prohibitions, rules, commandments and so forth seeking to dictate…
Good morning, thank you all for joining with us here at the temple today to practice together the Lotus Sutra. It isn’t easy to practice even a little bit of the Lotus Sutra in this modern age. In Chapter 15 of the Lotus Sutra, among other places in the sutra, the Buddha tells us in many different ways how difficult practicing the Lotus Sutra would be in the time after his death. Because it is…
Let me make a disclaimer right at the beginning here, I know hardly anything about sailing and so I won’t be teaching you how to do it. I ran across this quote, and coupled with today being a beautiful breezy day I just imagined a leisurely sail on a lake, or something like that. “A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.” (English Proverb) To that quote I would like to add my own which…
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