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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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Archived Posts

Name of Buddha – Part 4 – January 28, 2019
 
Name of Buddha – Part 4 – January 28, 2019
The assembled words written in the Lotus Sutra are in the thousands and they each have a meaning Independent of the Lotus Sutra.  Additionally when they are assembled in the Lotus Sutra the now exist in relationship to other word and concepts.  So the Lotus Sutra communicates to us in a variety of ways.  …
Walk In Peace – May 1, 2012 Meditation
 
Walk In Peace – May 1, 2012 Meditation
Walk In Peace May Day May Day is a very old celebration dating back to pagan times and perhaps even further. In the older reckoning of year cycles May first was the beginning of summer and what we now call the summer equinox was midsummer. One of the many traditional ways to observe this year…
Guardians Of Hell – June 30, 2012 Meditation
 
Guardians Of Hell – June 30, 2012 Meditation
Guardians Of Hell Aizen Myoo Day According to the calendar I have today we celebrate Aizen Myoo, though it was on the 25th of June that Nichiren is said to have seen a vision of Aizen. I have no knowledge of why the difference in the days.

Rough concept sketch (a work in progress) for cove…

Ryusho 龍昇 January 7, 2016 January 7, 2016

Rough concept sketch (a work in progress) for cover of my book Incarcerated Lotus to be published soon. ✏ ? https://t.co/fskJbNqLIE

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Ryusho 龍昇 January 7, 2016 January 7, 2016

#doodle to wake up – #spirit #renewal day & I need to buy #Chicken feed for my #backyardchickens https://t.co/R0Z0oJG65o

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This article lays out historical modern time line…

Ryusho 龍昇 January 7, 2016 January 7, 2016

This article lays out historical modern time line of guns “Racism and The Double Standard of Guns” @GentlemanGustaf medium.com/@Mattias.Lehma…

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Ryusho 龍昇 January 7, 2016 January 7, 2016

#doodle with #fountainpen to #sleep https://t.co/Zti4880mYM

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