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World-Voice-Perceiver – Four Lower Realms – Part 2

Anger A meandering look at a little tiny speck of demon changing into a huge overbearing and bloated creature. The imagery of Anger is this little speck puffing up to this giant thing and quite an appropriate one it is.  Suddenly from almost nothing arises this huge monster.  Out of thin air and on the thinest of justification or reason a fierce-some creature manifests.  Think about the last person you witnessed becoming angry, better still…

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World-Voice-Perceiver – Four Lower Realms – Part 1

As I undertake an exploration into World-Voice-Perceiver Bodhisattva and the Buddhist understanding of our mind I wish to share with you an incident that happened a few years ago while I was living in North Carolina.  The incident was a small thing happening on a day when many small things of huge importance were occurring.  My highlighting this incident is not intended to make it more important it is simply being an instance of when…

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World-Voice-Perceiver – Introduction

This book is being written not at the direct suggestion of my Sensei, Kanjin Cederman Shonin, rather it springs from a conversation with him.  On the second day of this new year, 2018, he and I had a long, two hour conversation.  During that conversation he asked me what I wanted to challenge myself with this year.  How did I wish to grow and expand my life through the Lotus Sutra. We talked about my…

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Deep Work – A Bit About Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe

During the month of January I am not using social media such as Twitter or Facebook except for what feeds into them through my blog and occasional postings of photos on Instagram.  I am also not using the web to gather my news, instead relying on radio for that.  Email continues, though I won’t be in any rush to check daily or respond rapidly.  I am taking this first month of the year to enter…

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