I am not sure where everyone is who reads these blogs, and then too not every one reads them on the day they are posted. Sometimes they may be read much later by people new to my blog. Nonetheless this is definitely a winter of 2014 blog post. Tomorrow in the Carolinas and much of the South of the US we are expecting yet another icy artic blast. This time however besides the cold weather…
Quite a surprising turn of events with Abutsubo showing up with his wife several days after our first rather contentious encounter. When he showed up that first time with 40 other villagers there was so much anger among them I feared for my life. It is part of human nature that when closely held values or ideas are challenged then the response is as if one’s very life is threatened, and these folks were acting…
Nichiren’s exile to Sado Island represents in many ways the ending of his persecutions and struggle against the government sponsored backing of religions . After the exile the government did little else to vex Nichiren, though the persecutions did continue for his followers. The story that has come to us through many historians is that the exile was in itself a death sentence; what couldn’t be accomplished by the sharp sword of the executioner at…
Damn it’s cold. It’s cold and the only wood we can find for a fire is either too small to be of any significance or wet; mostly wet. The snow here hasn’t stopped since the authorities dumped me in this dilapidated graveyard. My disciple and I have been here for several days and have just barely managed to create a little protection from the constant snow by taking refuge in a broken down shack that…
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