Utilization is up next. While it is important to have faith, to have good medicine, to have good doctors, and to have a good treatment plan none of them have any value in themselves unless we put them to use. Faith without practice is a three legged stool missing a leg, and will eventually sooner over later will certainly topple over. The three pillars of our Buddhist practice is faith, practice, and study. It does…
Three Column Journal and Part II Lecture on Ten Suchnesses Audio Recording The Dharma talk from today’s service covers two topics. The main portion of the talk is about a journal format I am hoping folks will endeavor to use diligently through the remainder of the year. At the end of the year I am hoping that folks will share there feedback noting any changes that have taken place in their behaviors since they first…
In the previous section I gave a quote from Chih-I in which he talks about a free method of managing illness, one that doesn’t take much time, which can be done without any side effects, and may be taken with out limit. He laments that in spite of all the benefits of this offering people refuse to partake. In the Lotus Sutra in the parable of the Gem in the Robe we learn that the…
A few days ago Sensei Kanjin Cederman offered this challenge to us and our practice for the last remaining 100 days of the year. I would like to offer as a companion to this an accompanying meditation to engage in as we make our way out of 2018 and into 2019. If you’ve read my book on The Magic City you will know that I am fond of and engage in a couple of mystical…
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