Answers to questions frequently asked at the temple.
Good morning, thank you all for joining today either in person at the temple or via our live stream on the internet. Today we celebrate the Lunar New Year as well as Setsubun. Today we celebrate the start of the Lunar New Year and Setsubun. The Lunar New Year used to fall more closely in time with spring, now at least in China and Japan and a few other places it occurs in February on…
Now available on Amazon “Lecture on the Lotus Sutra” (click the link to open Amazon). You can now purchase a copy of my completed lecture on the Lotus Sutra. This book contains all of the serialized postings that appeared here in the Fall of last year. Those posts were edited and new material was added to the book which was not posted on the blog. I hope you will consider purchasing a copy for your…
I have finally finished and submitted for approval for publication my book, Lecture on the Lotus Sutra. This book contains all of the material that I serialized over the months in the Fall of 2013. To that body of work I have added additional material covering the final chapters of the Lotus Sutra which was not in the original serial. The printed book will be formatted 6″ x 9″ and contains almost 200 pages of…
French translation appears after English Are you the type of person that enjoys information-based games such as Trivial Pursuits? In games such as these knowledge is power. Many areas of life equate knowledge with power. Students are tasked with acquiring as much knowledge as possible. Knowledge is good, however it isn’t everything, because we also need wisdom to apply knowledge to effective uses. In the Lotus Sutra the Buddha cautions us that being able to…
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