Category: Lotus Sutra

World-Voice-Perceiver – Four Lower Realms – Part 2

Anger A meandering look at a little tiny speck of demon changing into a huge overbearing and bloated creature. The imagery of Anger is this little speck puffing up to this giant thing and quite an appropriate one it is.  Suddenly from almost nothing arises this huge monster.  Out of thin air and on the thinest of justification or reason a fierce-some creature manifests.  Think about the last person you witnessed becoming angry, better still…

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World-Voice-Perceiver – Four Lower Realms – Part 1

As I undertake an exploration into World-Voice-Perceiver Bodhisattva and the Buddhist understanding of our mind I wish to share with you an incident that happened a few years ago while I was living in North Carolina.  The incident was a small thing happening on a day when many small things of huge importance were occurring.  My highlighting this incident is not intended to make it more important it is simply being an instance of when…

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World-Voice-Perceiver – Introduction

This book is being written not at the direct suggestion of my Sensei, Kanjin Cederman Shonin, rather it springs from a conversation with him.  On the second day of this new year, 2018, he and I had a long, two hour conversation.  During that conversation he asked me what I wanted to challenge myself with this year.  How did I wish to grow and expand my life through the Lotus Sutra. We talked about my…

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The Book Important Matters is Finished

I have finished the draft of my new book Important Matters, a book discussing our attitude and contemplations as we carry out our practice of the Lotus Sutra.  All that remains is for me to review the edits suggested by John Hughes and his wife Mary who have done wonderful work on some of my previous books, improving them greatly.  From that point it will be a easy matter to format the book and prepare…

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