Happenings around Myosho-ji, Wonderful Voice Buddhist Temple
Wrestle With Your Spirit “You don’t come to church to be entertained. You come to wrestle with your spirit.” (James Cone) I was sent a link the other day to an online article about James Cone. At the end of the article the author talks about Cone’s response to the concept of ‘prosperity’ religion. What caught my eye and got me to thinking was the quote I shared above. When I think about our Buddhist…
Walk In Peace May Day May Day is a very old celebration dating back to pagan times and perhaps even further. In the older reckoning of year cycles May first was the beginning of summer and what we now call the summer equinox was midsummer. One of the many traditional ways to observe this year cycle event was with bouquets of flowers, even flower baskets left anonymously on neighbor porches. In some places even the…
Treasure In our modern age there is always some new and neat thing coming out that we feel compelled to own. It is easy to become distracted from the most valuable thing in our life. That thing is your life. There may be times when you are unhappy with your existence, or you may feel useless or like there is no hope. Yet you, your very existence is actually quite a remarkable phenomena. You are…
Just One More Thing We all know, or at least we are all aware that this moment is the only moment that exists. This moment is also the moment in which happiness exists as well. These are not easy concepts to embrace completely. Really, how hard is it to be in just this single moment? I would say pretty darn hard. One place to begin is with right now. Whatever you are doing at this…
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