Be Where Your Butt Is – Podcast – February 9, 2019

Be Where Your Butt Is – a short podcast about being present in this time and space.   Subscribe to my blog post newsletter [amazon_link asins=’1979530815,B00HTOFM44,1975689763,147834198X,0692257470,1979814023,1511592907,1726325520,1508534780,1492886041′ template=’ProductCarousel’ store=’ryusho0a-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’5b00ab74-b021-11e8-94bb-8388b7973e5c’]  

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Montgomery, AL Visit to Legacy Museum and National Memorial for Peace and Justice – January 24-26, 2019

In January of 2019, 24-26, I visited Montgomery, AL to go see the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. The Legacy Museum documents in pictures, video, and newsprint the history of the slave trade, the plight of slaves in the US, the freeing of slaves, and then the oppressions African-Americans suffered through the Carpetbagger era, the Jim Crow era, the Civil Rights era, on through the continue modern enslavement of Blacks…

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Name of Buddha – Part 5 – January 28, 2019

Now we have two ways of reading the Lotus Sutra, and additional way of entering into the Lotus Sutra.  The two ways of reading are comprehension of individual words leading to a literal understating of the Lotus Sutra.  We have a doctrinal reading which describes and understands the teachings and concepts of the Lotus Sutra.  As I have tried to show we now have a mystical transcendental way of reading or more correctly entering into…

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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13n – January 28, 2019

We are almost finished so hang on.  You’ve done a wonderful job keeping up with all of this though I suspect it might be a bit overwhelming.  I think that is an appropriate experience.  Being overwhelmed is not always a bad thing or something to be avoided.  At this point or perhaps sooner I suspect you may have even experienced a sense of loss, or confusion due to the complexity and quality of information.  That…

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