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Subscribe to my blog post newsletter During our service and the recitation of portions from the Lotus Sutra we recite the Junnyoze from Chapter II three times. You may wonder why that is since it is only written one time in the sutra. I’m surprised more people don’t ask about that since it is so clearly at odds with any other recitation we do, repeating something that isn’t written. I suppose it is because some…
Frequently it is necessary to remind ourselves that in Buddhism there is no punishment for not doing your practice. In the ten aspects we read rewards and retribution and it would be an easy mistake to think there is punishment in Buddhism. The fact is this phrase only refers to how we might consider the effects of our causes, the primary cause and the environmental cause. If there is no cause made then there is…
On the 24th of August I left Syracuse and drove to Buffalo, NY to attend the Enkyo-ji Buddhist Network retreat to be held at a private farm on the shore of Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes of North America. My first stop was to visit a friend who I have known for several who now serves as the Chief Rabbi of Temple Beth Zion in Buffalo, New York. Rabbi Jonathan Frierich and I…
Chih-I refers to the Four Elements as snakes, he wasn’t the first to do so, yet it is his work we are exploring. An explanation for the metaphor of four snakes can be found in the Suvarnaprabhasa Sutra which offers a parable of a man who fleeing from the two bewildering forms of life and death spies a rope (life) and climbs down into the well of impermanence. In this well are two mice who…
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