Subscribe to my blog post newsletter Diseases to be contemplated as has already been said do not include those that are taken on as a means to educate or instruct someone in the Dharma. What is left is the wide range of karmic diseases, or diseases that are ours because we have a physical body. We are in this case speaking of karma in a general and broad sense and not to any specific karmic…
Subscribe to my blog post newsletter During our service and the recitation of portions from the Lotus Sutra we recite the Junnyoze from Chapter II three times. You may wonder why that is since it is only written one time in the sutra. I’m surprised more people don’t ask about that since it is so clearly at odds with any other recitation we do, repeating something that isn’t written. I suppose it is because some…
Con frecuencia es necesario recordarnos que en el budismo no hay castigo por no hacer nuestra práctica. En los diez aspectos leemos recompensas y retribuciones, y sería un error fácil pensar que hay castigo en el budismo. El hecho es que esta frase solo se refiere a cómo podríamos considerar los efectos de nuestras causas, la causa principal y la causa ambiental. Si no hay causa, entonces hay una consiguiente ausencia de efecto. Así que,…
Frequently it is necessary to remind ourselves that in Buddhism there is no punishment for not doing your practice. In the ten aspects we read rewards and retribution and it would be an easy mistake to think there is punishment in Buddhism. The fact is this phrase only refers to how we might consider the effects of our causes, the primary cause and the environmental cause. If there is no cause made then there is…
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