When I was in my final training to be a chaplain one of the supervisors of our unit would occasionally make a point of showing his ignorance of Buddhism by miss-quoting and miss-interpreting a common cliche expression of no-self. He would say things like “I thought you were supposed to be no-self” or such. Which in my mind is absurd and as I mentioned a misrepresentation, a convenient ignorance for him to hide behind. The…
One challenge when studying Buddhism is to not go down the normal human path of analyzing every thing as independent theories. While for the sake of explaining the various theories we find in Buddhism does require us to break things down it does have the potential of misleading us into thinking of everything as being separated. We can study Ten World and do so without examining any other related theory, yet this only provides a…
This morning, Tuesday, 7 August 2018, I was walking my dog shortly after sunrise and besides enjoying the unscripted walk, the sunny sky, I was thinking about this Aspect of Primary Cause. I had been trying to come up with some examples to help illustrate the concept of a primary cause versus any other cause we may make. Two ideas came to my mind and I immediately told my dog to sit, which she did…
The guys in the station took us to a lodge, which had not opened for the season yet, woke up the keeper who then prepared a room and bed for us and hot chocolate. The guys at the gas station assured us they would go pick up the car and we could come back in the morning. Well for no charge at the inn and only $25 for the car we found out that the…
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