Chih-I reminds us that when the lord of the castle is determined and hard as a rock, the guards are also strong. When the lord is timid, then the guards will be busy, distracted, and possibly hasten to run away. You are the lord and the castle is your body. The guards are the two the gods of the same name and same birth as yourself. When you are born it is said that there…
When a child is born it is not normal that we say “Oh, the poor thing is going to die”, we don’t say to the parents, “I so sorry for the eventual death of your child.” Instead we naturally celebrate the life and birth of the child, even though those two previous statements are completely accurate and honest. What I am talking about is balance in all situations in life. A balance between life…
It is reasonable that a person may question how a practice of a religion that fundamentally does not believe in an external solution to the sufferings of life, how that religion could provide a source for support for living with illness. In other words if we don’t pray to someone or something to assist us in our suffering then what is it we can accomplish through our Buddhist practice. Since our experience of traditional medicine…
When a person is ill time is measured differently than generally when healthy. In some instances especially when pain is present time can seem as if it stands still or even goes backward. Has it ever happened to you when you’re in pain and you have said something to the effect that things seem to be going backwards getting worse rather than better? Perhaps not. Time, Chih-I advises is to be not even considered a…
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