Category: Prayer

Contemplando la Enfermedad Parte 4 – Descansando en la Tolerancia – 27 de Agosto del 2018

Las enfermedades que deben contemplarse como ya se ha dicho no incluyen aquellas que se toman como un medio para educar o instruir a alguien en el Dharma. Lo que queda es la amplia gama de enfermedades kármicas, o enfermedades que son nuestras porque tenemos un cuerpo físico. En este caso estamos hablando de karma en un sentido amplio y general y no de ninguna enfermedad kármica específica. Además del sufrimiento de la enfermedad, existe…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13j – January 21, 2019

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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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13g – January 18, 2019

Objects as Inconceivable I’m not sure many of us have considered illness or disease as inconceivable, especially since we are experiencing it and so we are deluded into thinking it is conceivable (conceptually understood).  Yet there is an aspect to disease, dis-ease, that is also, perhaps for a lack of a better  way of conceptualizing this, metaphysical in nature.  Let’s see if I can clarify this. Currently the Veterans Administration is monitoring my health for…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13f – January 17, 2019

The point here is that by understanding this by seeking to understand this dependent origination as we live with and through disease can be the cause for our entering the realm of pratyekabuddhahood.   As I have been studying this and thinking deeply on the subject it is easy to see that these very same principles can be applied to any and every aspect of our lives.  What condition or realm of the Ten Worlds…

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