Random Quote
Erect a stupa of the seven treasures in any place where this sutra is expounded, read, recited or copied, or in any place where a copy of this sutra exists! The stupa whould be tall, spacious, and adorned. You need not enshrine my sariras in the stupa. Why not? It is because it will contain my perfect body.
— Buddha
Category: Ramble Rambling ideas, personal things, random thoughts
Day Long Retreat
What a fantastic day today was! Twelve students and their professor, all from Hood Theological Seminary, visited Myosho-ji Buddhist Temple today for a day long intense Buddhist retreat. These students were all members of a class on World Religions that is being offered this summer as a graduate level course. Some of these students are already ministers and others are completing their ministerial training. Several weeks ago their professor contacted me to arrange the possibility…
On the Occasion of My 60th
I am posting this a few days early so please forgive me. But if you consider wishing me a happy birthday please read this and also wish for your friends who are no longer in your lives. I have been looking forward to this birthday for a long time, well sixty years or so. I am very excited to be this age. When I think about all the people I knew who were not so…
Why the Confederate Flag?
A lot of things are floating around inside my brain right now and it is difficult to know exactly where to begin getting them all out in writing this. Back when I was in college, a few years ago, I had to write lots and lots of papers. During that time I developed a strategy for writing, or I should say someone somewhere unknown now planted the thought, that simply the best way to begin…
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Rambling ideas, personal things, random thoughts
Day Long Retreat
What a fantastic day today was! Twelve students and their professor, all from Hood Theological Seminary, visited Myosho-ji Buddhist Temple today for a day long intense Buddhist retreat. These students were all members of a class on World Religions that is being offered this summer as a graduate level course. Some of these students are already ministers and others are completing their ministerial training. Several weeks ago their professor contacted me to arrange the possibility…
On the Occasion of My 60th
I am posting this a few days early so please forgive me. But if you consider wishing me a happy birthday please read this and also wish for your friends who are no longer in your lives. I have been looking forward to this birthday for a long time, well sixty years or so. I am very excited to be this age. When I think about all the people I knew who were not so…
Why the Confederate Flag?
A lot of things are floating around inside my brain right now and it is difficult to know exactly where to begin getting them all out in writing this. Back when I was in college, a few years ago, I had to write lots and lots of papers. During that time I developed a strategy for writing, or I should say someone somewhere unknown now planted the thought, that simply the best way to begin…