Skip to content
  • Lotus Sutra

Ryusho龍昇 - Blog

Promoting the practice and study of the Lotus Sutra.
Skip to content
  • Featured Myosho-Ji Post
  • Lotus Sutra
    • Name of Buddha
    • Lotus of Your Life
    • 35-Day Practice Guide
  • Foreign Language Posts
    • Espanol
    • Francais
    • Italian
    • Portuguese
  • Recordings
  • Sangha Building
  • Contact Us
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...
Read more

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,...
Read more

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. ...
Read more

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...
Read more

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...
Read more

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...
Read more

Archived Posts

Senji  Sho Dharma Lecture Part 1 of 4 – Video – May 18, 2020
 
Senji Sho Dharma Lecture Part 1 of 4 – Video – May 18, 2020
The first part of a four part series lecture given on one Nichiren’s Five Major Writings, On Selection of the Correct Time – Senji Sho.  This lecture series is about six hours long covering this important writing and was originally presented in April 2015.  I hope you will take the time to listen and consider.…
Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13f – January 17, 2019
 
Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13f – January 17, 2019
The point here is that by understanding this by seeking to understand this dependent origination as we live with and through disease can be the cause for our entering the realm of pratyekabuddhahood.   As I have been studying this and thinking deeply on the subject it is easy to see that these very same…
Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13m – January 27, 2019
 
Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13m – January 27, 2019
The sixth item in the teaching on Cessation is very fascinating to me because it takes a real experience, pain, illness, disease, dis-ease and looks at it from thirty-seven steps, or angles and Chih-I specifically states that this can be done “while you are at your pillow [suffering from disease].  Understand that suffering is not…

#fieldnotes – where will I go what will I discover…

Ryusho 龍昇 January 27, 2016 January 27, 2016

#fieldnotes – where will I go what will I discover https://t.co/LXAqvuwgdG

CZs7TN4WkAApUZm

Share this:

  • Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Tweet
  • Print (Opens in new window) Print

Like this:

Like Loading...

#fieldnotes notebook https://t.co/HMVMCZCpRa

Ryusho 龍昇 January 27, 2016 January 27, 2016

#fieldnotes notebook https://t.co/HMVMCZCpRa

CZs6oMmWEAIh341

Share this:

  • Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Tweet
  • Print (Opens in new window) Print

Like this:

Like Loading...

Thursday @GreystonBakery brownies will be shared w…

Ryusho 龍昇 January 26, 2016 January 26, 2016

Thursday @GreystonBakery brownies will be shared w @QCFamilyTree good being done by both groups-commitment to community and individuals

Share this:

  • Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Tweet
  • Print (Opens in new window) Print

Like this:

Like Loading...

#fieldnotes #bestyearyet set & #NorthCarolina…

Ryusho 龍昇 January 26, 2016 January 26, 2016

#fieldnotes #bestyearyet set & #NorthCarolina & #Chicago goodies arrived 2day ?? @FieldNotesBrand https://t.co/6sHcaHKR9k

CZsjYaYWwAA5WHL

Share this:

  • Email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email
  • Tweet
  • Print (Opens in new window) Print

Like this:

Like Loading...
«‹111112113114115›»
  • Follow me on Twitter

    My Tweets
  • 35-Day Practice Guide
  • Dharma Talks
  • Public Speaking
  • About Ryusho
  • Books by Ryusho
Please consider making a donation to support the availability of this blog. If you enjoyed something you found here consider that someone else may as well and your donation helps to make that possible. With Gassho, Ryusho
Powered by Nirvana & WordPress.
YouTube Twitter RSS

Favicon Plugin made by Cheap Web Hosting

 

Loading Comments...
 

    %d