Category: dying

Contemplando la Enfermedad – Parte 5a – Confortando a los enfermos – 29 de agosto del 2018

En este punto, me gustaría desviarme un poco de Chih-I y mirar a Vimalakirti. Anteriormente mencioné que la enfermedad de la que estamos hablando no cubre a los que toman los Budas o los Bodhisattvas con el propósito de dar instrucción, como la enfermedad de Vimalakirti. Sin embargo, en el Sutra Vimalakirti podemos aprender lecciones importantes, como las que se encuentran en el intercambio entre Manjusuri y Vimalakirti sobre cómo alentar a un bodhisattva que…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13n – January 28, 2019

We are almost finished so hang on.  You’ve done a wonderful job keeping up with all of this though I suspect it might be a bit overwhelming.  I think that is an appropriate experience.  Being overwhelmed is not always a bad thing or something to be avoided.  At this point or perhaps sooner I suspect you may have even experienced a sense of loss, or confusion due to the complexity and quality of information.  That…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13m – January 27, 2019

The sixth item in the teaching on Cessation is very fascinating to me because it takes a real experience, pain, illness, disease, dis-ease and looks at it from thirty-seven steps, or angles and Chih-I specifically states that this can be done “while you are at your pillow [suffering from disease].  Understand that suffering is not suffering, and you will enter the pure and cool pond [of awakening]. It would be difficult or even impossible to…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13l – January 27, 2019

Stepping away a little from Chih-I I’m going to share with you a little insight I have gained only in the past two days.   I returned from a trip to Alabama to visit an important museum and memorial dedicated to the cruelty and injustice that has been inflicted on Africans and blacks in our country.  I won’t go into the details as that is material for a different writing.   As I have shared…

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