Hopefully by this time you have at least seen a photo of the cover of the Daily Lotus, a collection of Lotus Sutra quotations. Depicted on the front cover is a Dharma Wheel. Over the years I have collected photos of utility hole covers, man-hole covers if you will, that are decorated with the Dharma Wheel, the universal symbol of Buddhism. I’ve found it curious that such an image would be used and have often…
Now Available on Amazon I enjoy daily quotation or phrase a day books, and they are widely available for various topics one might be interested in. I’ve missed having one devoted solely to the Lotus Sutra. It became a desire of mine to have such a book several years ago in fact. I began working on this project in 2014, can you believe that? First my chaplain work and training got in the way of…
Now available from Amazon the newest edition of the standard service for Myosho-ji. This is the format we follow for our regular Sunday services which are streamed live using Zoom. Included in this new edition are extra prayers which you may find useful for various occasions in your daily life. To those presented in the previous edition I’ve added even more. Also I’ve introduced gathas and how you might use this type of Buddhist practice…
I’ve written previously, on my blog as well as in my book Lecture on the Lotus Sutra, about the hidden practice of Rahula. Being the son of the Buddha must have been very difficult. Anytime a person follows in the footsteps of someone who has achieved success there is always the comparison people will make of the two and the different efforts and ways of being. Imagine being the son of the Buddha and then…
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