“Thereupon the Buddha emitted a ray of light from the white curls between his eyebrows, and illumined all the corners of eighteen thousand world in the east down to the Avichi Hell of each world, and up to the Akaistha Heaven of each world.” Lotus Sutra, Chapter I In this selection we are made aware of the phenomena the assembly present at Mount Sacred Eagle witnessed the Buddha perform. Not only were these places illuminated…
Today and every Thursday for the month of February I am going to write about finances, money, and wealth and how it all ties in to and can be thought about in terms of our Buddhist practice. The month of February is Financial Health in the United States, which is what originally gave me the idea. Several years ago when I worked for Bank of America I would volunteer on Monday evenings teaching financial ‘literacy’…
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…
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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