(Contemplating Disease will be the working title I will use for posts relating to my next book dealing with Disease, our Buddhist practice, and the Lotus Sutra.) For the majority of my life I have in one way or another engaged in the caring for people suffering from various diseases and illnesses. First, as many of you know by now, taking care of boys dying from AIDS. In fact most of the years were…
Every day for as long as we live if we are lucky we engage in various activities. Eating, sleeping, personal hygiene, are a few of the basics which occupy our time and attention. Depending upon our age we these basics will be performed differently and will probably look different. If we are old such as myself, hygiene includes trimming hairs from my ears, an activity I did not need to do when I was in…
My objective while in France – to the French People To be honest I spent most of the day trying to be nice and trying to take advantage of the schedule of the conference. My body was not so cooperative and laid down numerous times to sleep for varying lengths of time with at time dubious results. The meals were sufficient for European preferences, sadly I didn’t have the same objective. Coming off of a…
Anger is one of the Ten Worlds and, therefore, a very real part of our whole self. The question for us as Buddhists is not to eliminate anger; that is impossible. I believe we serve ourselves well, and thereby improve our lives if we examine when we are the master of anger and when anger is our master. When anger so consumes you that you act without thinking or, act in ways you would not…
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