Well, here we are approaching the autumn equinox. Twice a year on our planet we have an equinox, a period of equal light and equal dark. Twice a year we take time during the equinox season to pay particular attention to observing the Six Paramitas. We find reference to Higan, which means crossing to the other shore, in the first chapter of the Lotus Sutra. “They had already trained themselves out of their compassion towards…
Good morning, thank you all for joining with us here at the temple today to practice together the Lotus Sutra. It isn’t easy to practice even a little bit of the Lotus Sutra in this modern age. In Chapter 15 of the Lotus Sutra, among other places in the sutra, the Buddha tells us in many different ways how difficult practicing the Lotus Sutra would be in the time after his death. Because it is…
Let me make a disclaimer right at the beginning here, I know hardly anything about sailing and so I won’t be teaching you how to do it. I ran across this quote, and coupled with today being a beautiful breezy day I just imagined a leisurely sail on a lake, or something like that. “A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.” (English Proverb) To that quote I would like to add my own which…
Portuguese translation appears after English I was asked the other evening if I believed that the concept of Engaged Buddhism was genuinely Buddhist or whether it was some Western idea of charity and good works being applied to Buddhism. I explained to him that I honestly felt that Buddhism at its core is all about social involvement and charity and all the things we now identify as Engaged Buddhist activities. I explained how as Buddhism…
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