Good ideas, good causes, good actions, good things
When we use a word in any language it is marker for an idea, it isn’t itself the thing it marks it stands for the thing. When I write ‘car’ I am assembling letters according to conventions of language to represent the concept we know as car. I can not drive to the store in the letters c-a-r so those letters are themselves not the thing they represent. There is more to consider though. …
The sixth item in the teaching on Cessation is very fascinating to me because it takes a real experience, pain, illness, disease, dis-ease and looks at it from thirty-seven steps, or angles and Chih-I specifically states that this can be done “while you are at your pillow [suffering from disease]. Understand that suffering is not suffering, and you will enter the pure and cool pond [of awakening]. It would be difficult or even impossible to…
(Contemplar la Enfermedad será el título de trabajo que usaré para las publicaciones relacionadas con mi próximo libro que trata de la enfermedad, nuestra práctica budista y el Sutra del Loto). Durante la mayor parte de mi vida, de una u otra manera me ocupé del cuidado de personas que padecen diversas enfermedades. Primero, como muchos de ustedes ya saben, cuidando a los chicos que morian de SIDA. De hecho, la mayoría de los años…
Next is the instruction to straighten one’s body. This can be problematic for many who are sick, especially with some internal injuries and with skeletal challenges. Here is my thinking on this, and I insert my thinking here because Chih-I doesn’t talk about this in his writing, the challenges of not being able to straighten one’s body. Currently I am going to the Veterans Administration Hospital here in Syracuse three days a week for various…
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