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35 Day Practice Day 12
35 Day Practice Day 12 Read Lotus Sutra M p. 144 “I will tell you a parable….(continue to p. 145)….I divide the One Vehicle of the Buddha into three only expediently.” R p. 198 “Suppose there was a bad road…..(continue to p. 199)….made distinctions within it, and spoken of the three.” Parable of A Magic…
Wishing – August 9, 2012 Meditation
Wishing “It is the virtue of the child to think in terms of wishes. But the virtue of the grown man is to will.” (Ortega y Gasset, Spanish Philosopher) I think it is natural as children to wish for things. When younger, especially very young, things seem to just happen. There is almost always someone…
35 Day Practice Day 11
35 Day Practice Day 11 Read Lotus Sutra M p. 129 “In order to save all living beings….(continue to p. 130)….The Most Honorable One.” M p. 140 “Then he expounded the teaching…..(read entire paragraph)…..suffering and lamentation are eliminated.” R p. 182 “In order to liberate living beings,….(read to p. 183)….To one of unexcelled honor.” R…
On the ground
Cinabon
What are we doing?
Tonight I was chatting with a young man at a gas station convenience store. It turns out that he works there from 5PM – 11PM then goes home for a short while before heading to his next job working at FedEx from 3AM – 8AM. I know he is not that unusual, in the amount of effort he has to put into piecing together several jobs in order to create a “full-time job”. Probably,…
Getting Stsrted
Tonight I created a blog using WordPress. The main reason for doing so was because of compatability with the iPhone. I had resurected my blog on my .me account hosted through Mac, but there is no way to make entries using an iPhone, which is how this entry is being made.