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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13i – January 20, 2019
Chih-I talks quite a lot about compassion and how important it is to cultivate when one has dis-ease, disease, and illness. As I have been studying this text I am struck by the direction he suggests compassion needs to flow. Usually when compassion is mentioned, at lease in the medical settings I’ve been in…
Prayer vs. Meditation – August 16, 2012 Meditation
Prayer vs. Meditation “Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” So goes the line in the story of Snow White. No matter how often or no matter how vigorously the queen beseeched the mirror to tell her she was the fairest the mirror never did. The property of mirrors, if we…
Spending Some Time With Long Time Friends – May 20, 2019
Here are some photos from my last day in Seattle. Leah and her boyfriend Pete drove up from Portland to spend some time together. Leah was my Japanese language tutor when I was studying at Portland State University 11 years ago. She also came to Japan when I graduated from Shingyo Dojo. Some of these photos were taken while we did a couple Geocaching hunts.
Morning Walk Around Seattle – May 20, 2019
Enkyo-ji Retreat – May 18, 2019
During the retreat there have not been many opportunities to take photos. Here are a few I was able take.Here are some additional photos I took before the retreat began.
