Staying Motivated in Your Faith and Practice – Video – May 11, 2020

Staying Motivated in your practice can be challenging even during ideal circumstances. For many though ideal circumstances rarely occur. For some practice is done as an isolated individual with no temple, no organized community of believers accessible. For others it can be an unrelenting obstacles that is difficult overcome and requiring many months or years of work. And not today in 2020 we find our selves practicing in the midst of a worldwide pandemic which…

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Lotus Sutra Chapter I – Part 1 – Dharma Talk in English and French – Video – May 10, 2020

In this Dharma talk I talk about a portion of one paragraph from Chapter I – Introduction – Lotus Sutra. The particular paragraph is the fourth one from the beginning as written in English. There is French interpretation for the entire lecture and the location is provided in French at the beginning. This talk covers two ways of considering the beam of light or the illumination the Buddha provides to 18,000 other worlds. There is…

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Another More Positive Health Update – Otherwise Who Wants Another Health Update – January 4, 2020

Well I’ve been home for 24 hours. It’s not the longest I’ve been home sin e this health crisis began. What is different this time is that every day for two weeks I will be receiving daily IV antibiotic infusions give by a home RN from the VA. Today I was able to order groceries online for home delivery. It is an expensive option yet one that made it possible to restock my pantry so…

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Differences – Simile of Herbs – Lotus Sutra – January 4, 2020

“Suppose the various trees and grasses… including herbs growing in the thickets, forests, mountains, ravines, and valleys, on the ground, and by the rivers – All these plants being different in names and forms – Were covered with a dark cloud, and then watered by a rainfall at the same time. “ Simile of Herbs chapter Lotus Sutra Been thinking a lot recently about how the Lotus Sutra invites us to not simply respect our…

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