Thursday’s regular weekly feature, here are a few books I recommend. The books will not always be directly about Buddhism however they will relate to the greater truths found in Buddhism and also to things I’m interested in. Sometimes ideas from my outside reading I use as I process the complex theories we study in Buddhism. Please note that the temple will receive a small percentage of any purchase made from Amazon through the links…
At this point I’d like to make a little detour away from Chih-I and look at Vimalakirti. I mentioned earlier that the illness we are talking about do not cover those taken on by Buddhas or Bodhisattvas for the purpose of instruction, such as the illness of Vimalakirti. Yet in the Vimalakirti Sutra we can learn important lesson, such as found in the exchange between Manjusuri and Vimalakirti on how to encourage a bodhisattva who…
Due to some recent reorganization between CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing, KDP, the manufacturing prices on printed books is increasing. Both CreateSpace and KDP are the publishing part of the Amazon empire. It is unfortunate that there are these increases, yet it is the nature of both rising inflation, product costs, and yes I do believe greed. Unfortunately these remain about the best options for independent publishers, and the most economical options for readers also. …
Subscribe to my blog post newsletter Diseases to be contemplated as has already been said do not include those that are taken on as a means to educate or instruct someone in the Dharma. What is left is the wide range of karmic diseases, or diseases that are ours because we have a physical body. We are in this case speaking of karma in a general and broad sense and not to any specific karmic…
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