Disease is a fact of existence. Chih-I considered disease to be of two types. One is real and the other is tentative. We must not be misled by the use of tentative however as being something that only is of short duration or that will simply go a way. Another way of considering tentative is they are diseases of instruction. A disease of instruction or tentative would be like the illness of Vimalakirti the famous…
(Contemplating Disease will be the working title I will use for posts relating to my next book dealing with Disease, our Buddhist practice, and the Lotus Sutra.) For the majority of my life I have in one way or another engaged in the caring for people suffering from various diseases and illnesses. First, as many of you know by now, taking care of boys dying from AIDS. In fact most of the years were…
The phrase nyoze honmatsu ku kyo to translates to their equality as such despite these differences. In other words, all of our being, the physical and the non-physical aspects, all are affected by one another. When one area of our self is out of whack then so too will be the other aspects. While we may not at first perceive the manifestation in things such as our appearance, nature, or entity we certainly can notice…
My objective while in France – to the French People To be honest I spent most of the day trying to be nice and trying to take advantage of the schedule of the conference. My body was not so cooperative and laid down numerous times to sleep for varying lengths of time with at time dubious results. The meals were sufficient for European preferences, sadly I didn’t have the same objective. Coming off of a…
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