Here will be posted Dharma Talks given after services usually given on Sunday’s.
At the present time we are inundated by news coverage of the newly begun primary season for the election of the next president of the United States. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending upon your personal preferences, we will be faced with this coverage for the next ten and one half months until the process concludes in November. One thing constantly mentioned in all of this coverage is talk of winners and losers. It is of course…
Today is September 10, 2006 and tomorrow will be the 11th and the 5th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the Pentagon in Washington, DC and the crashing of a jet in Pennsylvania. Since that day, for the past five years, our country and many others have reacted in various ways to those events. This reminds me of the story of one of the Buddha’s disciples, Ahimsaka, the…
Today I would like to talk about the 5 practices of the Bodhisattva -, gogyo in Japanese. Also I want to tie this into a phenomenon that we as humans are all too skillful at but it is a skill that hinders us and causes us suffering. That skill is making comparisons, in particular comparisons to other. Earlier this year I gave a Dharma talk on the concept of wining and loosing versus victory and…
Dharma Talk 2/21/10 Dojojin Shugo – Protective Deities for the Place of Practicing Buddhism This is a short letter written by Nichiren Shonin to Toki Jonin a lay follower who had donated 5 kammon of coins. This letter was written on the 13th of December though the year isn’t given, however Nichiren was living at Mt. Minobu at the time. In the first paragraph Nichiren relates how his hermitage in the mountains is far from…
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