Doubt and religious belief often seem to be in conflict. Many people have acquired a belief that one can not be of firm faith if one doubts, or if there are doubts then one’s religious beliefs are at risk. I propose that these beliefs are not merely false they are harmful. The absence of doubt should be a flag that alerts us to a stagnate faith, or even a weak faith. Consider science for only…
The image of a lighthouse in some ways is an ideal one to represent the concept of Sangha. I say this because lighthouses are a community effort, even if not all in the community are aware of their participation, in ensuring the safe navigation of ships and other naval vessels which provide transport to people and goods. The Buddha provides us with teachings, the Dharma, for our navigation across the ocean of suffering of birth…
We begin this chapter by introducing Endless-Intent Bodhisattva as the person asking a question of the Buddha about the origin of World-Voice-Perceiver’s name. This is a fairly straight forward question and response. It almost is tempting to gloss over and get to all the wonderful and fantastic things which can be resolved by calling out to World-Voice-Perceiver. Yet in so doing we have skipped over the title of the chapter which hopefully you are curious…
Animals In one shade or another a common element in all of the lower realms is a lack of agency. Feeling of not being in control, of being a victim of either circumstances, society, fate, bad luck, bad karma, no money, bad parents, bad children, or any number of other things we may frequently wish to blame for our circumstance of suffering. In each situation there is a turning over of self-responsibility to some other…
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