Nichiren Shu
Time – Dharma Talk – May 10, 2009 Today I would like to talk a little about time. In two weeks I’ll be giving a lecture on Nichiren’s Major Writing – Senji Sho which in English is abbreviated as On Selection of Time. In this writing Nichiren lays out the argument that this time in which we live, this time called the Age of Degeneration of the True Law, the time in which the efficacy…
What a fantastic day today was! Twelve students and their professor, all from Hood Theological Seminary, visited Myosho-ji Buddhist Temple today for a day long intense Buddhist retreat. These students were all members of a class on World Religions that is being offered this summer as a graduate level course. Some of these students are already ministers and others are completing their ministerial training. Several weeks ago their professor contacted me to arrange the possibility…
Today is the Equinox, the heart of the Ohigan season, and today I’ll write about Effort. The French translation for this post appears at the end. Translation done by Luca Guccione By some accounts the Six Paramitas came about as a Mahayana response to what they felt was an over emphasis on development of self by only adhering to the Four Noble Truths and the Eight-Fold Path, which are primarily focused on self. Effort as…
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