The Lotus Sutra is the complete Dharma, it is not lacking in any teaching of the Buddha, it does not contain more nor less of the essential teachings to enable all people to attain enlightenment equal to all Buddhas. The Lotus Sutra is the heart and intent as well as the truth of all Buddhas throughout time and space. There is not one character too much nor one character too few. If one character is…
When we use a word in any language it is marker for an idea, it isn’t itself the thing it marks it stands for the thing. When I write ‘car’ I am assembling letters according to conventions of language to represent the concept we know as car. I can not drive to the store in the letters c-a-r so those letters are themselves not the thing they represent. There is more to consider though. …
I am beginning a new meditation or investigation through practice into some more mystical experiences I have in my practice of the Lotus Sutra. This will be an active unfolding as much of this will be written as I experience and witness the sutra in my life. What I write will not be wholly of my origin, rather will be a revelation of my practice and meditation using a variety of meditation and mystical formats…
The sixth item in the teaching on Cessation is very fascinating to me because it takes a real experience, pain, illness, disease, dis-ease and looks at it from thirty-seven steps, or angles and Chih-I specifically states that this can be done “while you are at your pillow [suffering from disease]. Understand that suffering is not suffering, and you will enter the pure and cool pond [of awakening]. It would be difficult or even impossible to…
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