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I have expounded many sutras. I am now expounding this sutra. I also will expound many sutras in the future. The total number of the sutras will amount to many thousands of billions. This Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma is the most difficult to believe and the most difficult to understand. Medicine-King! This sutra is the store of the hidden core of all the Buddhas.
— Buddha
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Chapter II: Part 2 – Even Children In Their Play
King Asoka was the benevolent ruler of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent from 304-232 BCE. One of the stories I was told when I first began practicing Buddhism was about the previous life of King Asoka. I was reminded of that story as I was working on creatively expressing how I experienced the portion of the sutra about children drawing images of the Buddha in the dirt using sticks. According…
Chapter II: Part 1 – Inexplicable by Words
It is March 2016 as we begin examining the manifestation of the Chapter II, Expedient Means, from the Lotus Sutra. There is so much to explore in this, the longest chapter in the Lotus Sutra. For this chapter and probably for other chapters in the Lotus Sutra I will not be limiting myself, or you, to only the Murano translation. There are good words and good phrases in other translations which sometimes elicit more images…
Chapter I: Part 4 – Conclusion
Submissions by practitioners for “Lotus of Your Life”: I’ll present items shared with me by others on the page linked. In the future this link will appear at the end of the each post. February has almost ended and in the month of March, we will be looking at Chapter II, Expedient Means. While I won’t be posting on Chapter I, Introductory, it doesn’t mean it is finished. In fact, I have several other areas…
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Chapter II: Part 2 – Even Children In Their Play
King Asoka was the benevolent ruler of the Maurya Dynasty who ruled almost the entire Indian subcontinent from 304-232 BCE. One of the stories I was told when I first began practicing Buddhism was about the previous life of King Asoka. I was reminded of that story as I was working on creatively expressing how I experienced the portion of the sutra about children drawing images of the Buddha in the dirt using sticks. According…
Chapter II: Part 1 – Inexplicable by Words
It is March 2016 as we begin examining the manifestation of the Chapter II, Expedient Means, from the Lotus Sutra. There is so much to explore in this, the longest chapter in the Lotus Sutra. For this chapter and probably for other chapters in the Lotus Sutra I will not be limiting myself, or you, to only the Murano translation. There are good words and good phrases in other translations which sometimes elicit more images…
Chapter I: Part 4 – Conclusion
Submissions by practitioners for “Lotus of Your Life”: I’ll present items shared with me by others on the page linked. In the future this link will appear at the end of the each post. February has almost ended and in the month of March, we will be looking at Chapter II, Expedient Means. While I won’t be posting on Chapter I, Introductory, it doesn’t mean it is finished. In fact, I have several other areas…