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Chapter IV – Part 2 – Treasury of the Buddha Law

The translucent layers in both of the art pieces are representative of the multiple layers, the various ways of being in our lives. In each case nothing is completely covered over, nothing is eliminated and especially in the last piece every layer is required in order to form the whole. ...

Chapter IV – Part 1 – Never Had Before

Chapter IV is written from the voice of the Pratyekabuddhas, the elders of the Sangha. This group of people and the World, in the Ten Worlds, it represents is sometime called the self-enlightened or the contemplatives. In both of my art pieces for this chapter I used translucent layers in...

Chapter III: Part 3 – Rejoice

Chapter III provides me with many different inspirational passages which have defined my practice of the Lotus Sutra and how I have tried to encourage others. I am using page 81 from the Murano 3rd edition translation of the Lotus Sutra. You may have by now noticed a trend or...

Chapter III: Part 2 – Peaceful as the Sea

In this passage we have Shariputra telling the Buddha about how confused he was, about how perplexed, and even afraid. He had begun to suspect that Mara was impersonating his beloved teacher, his doubt had become so great. As a teacher I have had people react to me in similar...

Archived Posts

Survey Says… – April 15, 2012 Meditation

Survey Says Researchers have shown that by noticing things you are grateful for increases your happiness. In a study done (Emmons, R. A., & McCullough, M. E. (2003). Counting blessings versus burdens: An experimental investigation of gratitude and subjective well-being in daily life. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 2003. 84(2), 377-389) it was shown…

Views on Death – Podcast – May 7, 2019

Views on Death The question I am asked most frequently is what happens when we die. If you enjoyed this podcast please consider making a donation to help spread the Dharma. You may do so by clicking on the PayPal button on either the temple webpage www.myoshoji.org, or on my blog www.ryusho.org/blog. Thank you for…

Prayer vs. Meditation – August 16, 2012 Meditation

Prayer vs. Meditation “Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” So goes the line in the story of Snow White. No matter how often or no matter how vigorously the queen beseeched the mirror to tell her she was the fairest the mirror never did. The property of mirrors, if we…

2016 Comparative Religion Series – US Minority Religions

Ryusho 龍昇 January 28, 2016 January 28, 2016

On Tuesday 26 January 2016 I joined with Rabbi Judy Schindler of Temple Beth El and Imam Atif Chaudhry of the Islamic Society of Greater Charlotte in a discussion on Politics and Religion. This was the 4th time I’ve been invited to present in this annual community offering by the Comparative Religion Series Committee, now in the 15th year of providing this annual event.

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The Story of the Lotus Sutra of Your Life

If a Phrase of the Sutra Fills Your Heart… – May 5, 2017

Chapter IV – Part 2 – Treasury of the Buddha Law

Chapter IV – Part 1 – Never Had Before

Chapter III: Part 3 – Rejoice

Chapter III: Part 2 – Peaceful as the Sea

Archived Posts

Survey Says… – April 15, 2012 Meditation

Views on Death – Podcast – May 7, 2019

Prayer vs. Meditation – August 16, 2012 Meditation

2016 Comparative Religion Series – US Minority Religions

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The Story of the Lotus Sutra of Your Life

If a Phrase of the Sutra Fills Your Heart… – May 5, 2017

Chapter IV – Part 2 – Treasury of the Buddha Law

Chapter IV – Part 1 – Never Had Before

Chapter III: Part 3 – Rejoice

Chapter III: Part 2 – Peaceful as the Sea

Archived Posts

Survey Says… – April 15, 2012 Meditation

Views on Death – Podcast – May 7, 2019

Prayer vs. Meditation – August 16, 2012 Meditation

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