I’ve mentioned in this writing that I wanted to discuss a mystical approach to being in and with the Lotus Sutra. I realize that this may seem controversial to some people, and I am comfortable with their controversy. I firmly believe that our practice, religious and spiritual is an individual experience and no one can, should, or needs to define someone else experiences. I am fully aware that there may be some who think this…
(From my book Lotus Path Vol. I) It could be Legos or it could be anything. How many times have you gotten some item that required some assembly and just jumped right in without reading the instructions? Children are frequently enthralled with the bright colored building blocks that snap together and can be used to construct all manner of things. Legos can be used to build almost anything the imagination can conceive. But sometimes our…
I’ve written previously, on my blog as well as in my book Lecture on the Lotus Sutra, about the hidden practice of Rahula. Being the son of the Buddha must have been very difficult. Anytime a person follows in the footsteps of someone who has achieved success there is always the comparison people will make of the two and the different efforts and ways of being. Imagine being the son of the Buddha and then…
Chapter IV is written from the voice of the Pratyekabuddhas, the elders of the Sangha. This group of people and the World, in the Ten Worlds, it represents is sometime called the self-enlightened or the contemplatives. In both of my art pieces for this chapter I used translucent layers in a variety of ways. The idea was to show how even though our appearance or behavior at times seems to not be that of the…
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