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. …
I am beginning a new meditation or investigation through practice into some more mystical experiences I have in my practice of the Lotus Sutra. This will be an active unfolding as much of this will be written as I experience and witness the sutra in my life. What I write will not be wholly of my origin, rather will be a revelation of my practice and meditation using a variety of meditation and mystical formats…
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…
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…
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