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

It is reasonable that a person may question how a practice of a religion that fundamentally does not believe in an external solution to the sufferings of life, how that religion could provide a source for support for living with illness.  In other words if we don’t pray to someone or something to assist us in our suffering then what is it we can accomplish through our Buddhist practice.  Since our experience of traditional medicine…

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