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35 Day Practice Day 26
Book Prices Increasing – August 28, 2018
Due to some recent reorganization between CreateSpace and Kindle Direct Publishing, KDP, the manufacturing prices on printed books is increasing. Both CreateSpace and KDP are the publishing part of the Amazon empire. It is unfortunate that there are these increases, yet it is the nature of both rising inflation, product costs, and yes I do believe greed. Unfortunately these remain about the best options for independent publishers, and the most economical options for readers also. …
Contemplating Disease Part 4 – Resting in Forbearance – August 27, 2018
Subscribe to my blog post newsletter Diseases to be contemplated as has already been said do not include those that are taken on as a means to educate or instruct someone in the Dharma. What is left is the wide range of karmic diseases, or diseases that are ours because we have a physical body. We are in this case speaking of karma in a general and broad sense and not to any specific karmic…
Conclusion – Why We Chant the Junnyoze Three Times – August 28, 2018
Subscribe to my blog post newsletter During our service and the recitation of portions from the Lotus Sutra we recite the Junnyoze from Chapter II three times. You may wonder why that is since it is only written one time in the sutra. I’m surprised more people don’t ask about that since it is so clearly at odds with any other recitation we do, repeating something that isn’t written. I suppose it is because some…
Contemplando la Enfermedad – Parte 3a – Equilibrio, Armonía y Golpe – 23 de agosto del 2018
Tener forma física es tener que enfermar. ¿Por qué te podrias preguntar? Además de una respuesta obvia de que un cuerpo físico está sujeto a el deterioro y cambio otra respuesta es que se debe al desequilibrio natural de las formas de vida física. Nuestros cuerpos se componen de los cuatro elementos tierra, agua, aire y fuego. Puede parecer un poco antiguo o incluso sospechosamente supersticioso y ciertamente no es el lenguaje de la medicina…