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What I hope will be a regular weekly feature, here are a few books I recommend. The books will not always be directly about Buddhism however they will relate to the greater truths found in Buddhism and also to things I’m interested in. Sometimes ideas from my outside reading I use as I process the complex theories we study in Buddhism. Please note that the temple will receive a small percentage of any purchase made…
To have physical form is to have disease. Why you might ask? Beside an obvious answer that a physical body is subject to decay and change another response is because of the natural imbalance of physical life forms. Our bodies are comprised of the four elements of earth, water, air, and fire. That may sound a tad bit ancient or even suspiciously superstitious and certainly not the language of modern medicine. Remember though we are…
Disease is a fact of existence. Chih-I considered disease to be of two types. One is real and the other is tentative. We must not be misled by the use of tentative however as being something that only is of short duration or that will simply go a way. Another way of considering tentative is they are diseases of instruction. A disease of instruction or tentative would be like the illness of Vimalakirti the famous…
Having a perfect day, nothing going wrong, and nothing foreseeable to go wrong, you joyfully live your life. Bam, all of a sudden something happens and everything changes. In a heartbeat or the blink of an eye your life is turned upside down and inside out or worse. You have now been hit by an environmental cause, that is something that arises outside of your direct action. This could be a rain shower, car accident,…
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