Opening – March 25, 2013 Meditation Meditation, whether silent or chanting Odaimoku, is an opportunity to open our lives to the Buddha within. It isn’t that the Buddha within is only present during these times, but it is these moments when we are able to actually be present to our deeper self. Much of our day is filled with numerous activities, which drown out the soft voice of enlightenment. This soft voice is within, but…
The third paramita or perfection is patience. Ah, patience…. That elusive trait that I have difficulties in giving to others and in giving to myself. As I was thinking about this it occurred to me that it is different than being tolerant, at least as I see it. Let me give an example to see if you can follow my thinking. If I tolerate something that someone is doing then I am ‘granting’ them or…
30 by 30 Challenge – March 21, 2013 Meditation Learning something new, improving your life, making changes do not need to seem impossible if you consider starting with something small. If applied daily, thirty minutes can make a huge difference. If you were to set aside thirty minutes each day to study a new subject, within a year you would have devoted 100 hours toward learning something new. Thirty minutes a day of meditation would…
The word paramita was originally translated into Chinese from two words param and ita. Param translated as “to the other shore” and ita as ” reached.” It is believed that by observing the Paramitas one is able to cross the shore of birth and death and reach the shore of nirvana. In this installment of my six part blog on the Six Paramitas I will talk some about number two, Observing the Precepts. There are many precepts…
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