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Doubts – May 31, 2012 Meditation
Doubts I think it is natural for us to have doubts. We as humans have probably an unlimited potential for doubting, and it seems sometimes a rather limited potential for certainty. Perhaps this is because so much of our lives are unpredictable, every day is like a journey into the unknown and seemingly unknowable. When…
Day 5 – Fugen/Universal Sage Bodhisattva Retreat – Practice – July 5, 2019
“All beings, however, make delusory distinctions weighing whether somethings is this or that; whether it is a gain or a loss. Bad thoughts come to them, producing a variety of evil actions. They transmigrate within the six states undergoing all kind of suffering and harm, from which they cannot escape during innumerable billions of eons.…
Impermanence: A Trip to a Junk Store – May 25, 2017
I recently stumbled upon a junk store. I call it a junk store because unlike an antique store or a thrift store there is no attempt in this store to be organized, to highlight or even consider anything precious. Items are piled upon each other without regard to logic or organization. In fact the…