Category: Buddhism

Peaceful Practices #1 – February 4, 2014 Meditation (With French, Portuguese & Italian Translations)

French, Portuguese and Italian translations appears after English I thought I would do a little series on the Peaceful Practices given to us in the Lotus Sutra Chapter XIV. The four practices are proper practice (shin anrakugyo), mouth practice (ku anrakugyo), mind practice (i anrakugyo), and vow practice (seigon anrakugyo). Anrakugyo means peaceful practice. I encourage you to study along with me over the next several weeks these practices the Buddha gives to those who…

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The Gathered Assembly – February 2, 2014 Dharma Talk

Good morning, thank you all for joining today either in person at the temple or via our live stream on the internet. Today we celebrate the Lunar New Year as well as Setsubun. Today we celebrate the start of the Lunar New Year and Setsubun. The Lunar New Year used to fall more closely in time with spring, now at least in China and Japan and a few other places it occurs in February on…

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Lecture on the Lotus Sutra Now Available

Now available on Amazon “Lecture on the Lotus Sutra” (click the link to open Amazon). You can now purchase a copy of my completed lecture on the Lotus Sutra. This book contains all of the serialized postings that appeared here in the Fall of last year. Those posts were edited and new material was added to the book which was not posted on the blog. I hope you will consider purchasing a copy for your…

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Lecture on the Lotus Sutra by Ryusho Jeffus Soon to be Available

I have finally finished and submitted for approval for publication my book, Lecture on the Lotus Sutra. This book contains all of the material that I serialized over the months in the Fall of 2013. To that body of work I have added additional material covering the final chapters of the Lotus Sutra which was not in the original serial. The printed book will be formatted 6″ x 9″ and contains almost 200 pages of…

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