Here will be posted Dharma Talks given after services usually given on Sunday’s.
Storms Emotions come on like big storms. They rage in us sometimes as fiercely as a hurricane. Sometimes we can get so hurt, or so mad, or so despairing that it may not be possible to see anything else. Storms may rage, but they eventually pass, and so too will our emotions. Emotions come and then they go, they are what they are but they are not unchanging. We can be and in fact are…
Understanding Is The Ground For Compassion One of the basic teachings I offer when there are new folks attending the temple is the teaching of the Ten Wolds. I use this teaching to show how logical Buddhism is and how much sense it makes in helping us understand ourselves and the way we live. As I offer this teaching I point out how this is not just some theory, nor is its sole purpose to…
Every Moment Every moment of your life is a moment to practice Buddhism. It is easy to understand that the time we spend at our altar, the time we spend chanting, or the time we spend reciting the sutra are times of practice. That is easy. What is more difficult and the place where true Buddhism exists is the moments between those sacred practice moments. It is easy to be a Buddhist when we sit,…
False Assumptions Four people are flying in an airplane, the pilot, a professor, a hiker and another individual. The plane begins to have problems and it become apparent that it will crash. So the pilot announces that there are only three parachutes and that he is going to take one of them. The professor says that since he is so important and brilliant he will take another.
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