The Lotus Sutra is the complete Dharma, it is not lacking in any teaching of the Buddha, it does not contain more nor less of the essential teachings to enable all people to attain enlightenment equal to all Buddhas. The Lotus Sutra is the heart and intent as well as the truth of all Buddhas throughout time and space. There is not one character too much nor one character too few. If one character is…
When we use a word in any language it is marker for an idea, it isn’t itself the thing it marks it stands for the thing. When I write ‘car’ I am assembling letters according to conventions of language to represent the concept we know as car. I can not drive to the store in the letters c-a-r so those letters are themselves not the thing they represent. There is more to consider though. …
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…
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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