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The Story of the Lotus Sutra of Your Life If a Phrase of the Sutra Fills Your Heart… – May 5, 2017 Chapter IV – Part 2 – Treasury of the Buddha Law Chapter IV – Part 1 – Never Had Before Chapter III: Part 3 – Rejoice Chapter III: Part 2 – Peaceful as the Sea

The Story of the Lotus Sutra of Your Life

(I apologize in advance for this long post. I belive the content could not be broken up into multiple posts.) What follows is the beginning of a new study program that will take at least two years to complete. The framework will be the examination of one chapter of the...
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If a Phrase of the Sutra Fills Your Heart… – May 5, 2017

  “If a phrase of the sutra fills your heart it will be an aid to reaching the other Shore.  By deeply reflecting on and mastering the Dharma it will become a great vessel for crossing over.  Being able to see and hear the Dharma follows upon its joyful reception,...
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Chapter IV – Part 2 – Treasury of the Buddha Law

The translucent layers in both of the art pieces are representative of the multiple layers, the various ways of being in our lives.  In each case nothing is completely covered over, nothing is eliminated and especially in the last piece every layer is required in order to form the whole. ...
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Chapter IV – Part 1 – Never Had Before

Chapter IV is written from the voice of the Pratyekabuddhas, the elders of the Sangha.  This group of people and the World, in the Ten Worlds, it represents is sometime called the self-enlightened or the contemplatives.  In both of my art pieces for this chapter I used translucent layers in...
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Chapter III: Part 3 – Rejoice

Chapter III provides me with many different inspirational passages which have defined my practice of the Lotus Sutra and how I have tried to encourage others.  I am using page 81 from the Murano 3rd edition translation of the Lotus Sutra.  You may have by now noticed a trend or...
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Chapter III: Part 2 – Peaceful as the Sea

In this passage  we have Shariputra telling the Buddha about how confused he was, about how perplexed, and even afraid.  He had begun to suspect that Mara was impersonating his beloved teacher, his doubt had become so great.  As a teacher I have had people react to me in similar...
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Healing Our Vision – August 5, 2012 Meditation
 
Healing Our Vision – August 5, 2012 Meditation
Healing Our Vision In the Jewish faith the year is divided into months that correspond to a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, a zodiac sign, one of the 12 tribes of Israel, a limb of the body, and a sense. My original idea for this posting was to have it appear in the correct month,…
Name of Buddha – Part 6 – January 29, 2019
 
Name of Buddha – Part 6 – January 29, 2019
南無 These are the first two characters on the Omandala Gohonzon, NaMu.  This combination of characters has no inherent meaning.  It is not intended to have a meaning, rather it stands for a sound or combination of sounds.  This is similar to onomatopoeia, words representing sounds.  Examples of this are brrrrr, or cuckoo, or sizzle. …
Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13a – January 15, 2019
 
Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13a – January 15, 2019
It is reasonable that a person may question how a practice of a religion that fundamentally does not believe in an external solution to the sufferings of life, how that religion could provide a source for support for living with illness.  In other words if we don’t pray to someone or something to assist us…

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Ryusho 龍昇 February 9, 2016 February 13, 2016

#fieldnotes #watercolor #ink #acrylicpaint #highlighter #doodle #artjournal “I think I shall never see a poem as… https://t.co/qbJqFiHiF1

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Ryusho 龍昇 February 3, 2016 February 13, 2016

For my letter carrier tomorrow #InCoWriMo2016 #makeart #letterwriting #ThankaMailManDay 2-4-16 “no one, ever wrote https://t.co/x2PnJofOS4

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Ah, Earl Grey… It’s a beautiful day in the neigh…

Ryusho 龍昇 February 3, 2016 February 3, 2016

Ah, Earl Grey… It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood https://t.co/a0pmh0oY3X

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Asagohon – oatmeal w/nuts, rice, miso, pickled gin…

Ryusho 龍昇 February 3, 2016 February 3, 2016

Asagohon – oatmeal w/nuts, rice, miso, pickled ginger, seaweed, plus the two bagels plain I ate 2 hours ago. https://t.co/D4Pt5Ad2Fe

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