Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13g – January 18, 2019

Objects as Inconceivable I’m not sure many of us have considered illness or disease as inconceivable, especially since we are experiencing it and so we are deluded into thinking it is conceivable (conceptually understood).  Yet there is an aspect to disease, dis-ease, that is also, perhaps for a lack of a better  way of conceptualizing this, metaphysical in nature.  Let’s see if I can clarify this. Currently the Veterans Administration is monitoring my health for…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13f – January 17, 2019

The point here is that by understanding this by seeking to understand this dependent origination as we live with and through disease can be the cause for our entering the realm of pratyekabuddhahood.   As I have been studying this and thinking deeply on the subject it is easy to see that these very same principles can be applied to any and every aspect of our lives.  What condition or realm of the Ten Worlds…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13c – January 15, 2019

Chih-I reminds us that when the lord of the castle is determined and hard as a rock, the guards are also strong.  When the lord is timid, then the guards will be busy, distracted, and possibly hasten to run away.  You are the lord and the castle is your body.  The guards are the two the gods of the same name and same birth as yourself.  When you are born it is said that there…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13b – January 15, 2019

When a child is born it is not normal that we say “Oh, the poor thing is going to die”, we don’t say to the parents, “I so sorry for the eventual death of your child.”  Instead we naturally celebrate the life and birth of the child, even though those two previous statements are completely accurate and honest.   What I am talking about is balance in all situations in life.  A balance between life…

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