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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

The Story of the Lotus Sutra of Your Life

(I apologize in advance for this long post. I belive the content could not be broken up into multiple posts.) What follows is the beginning of a new study program that will take at least two years to complete. The framework will be the examination of one chapter of the...
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If a Phrase of the Sutra Fills Your Heart… – May 5, 2017

  “If a phrase of the sutra fills your heart it will be an aid to reaching the other Shore.  By deeply reflecting on and mastering the Dharma it will become a great vessel for crossing over.  Being able to see and hear the Dharma follows upon its joyful reception,...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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35 Day Practice Day 20
 
35 Day Practice Day 20
35 Day Practice Day 20 Read Lotus Sutra M p. 187 “Having see that the Buddha….(continue on same page)….to someone so that this sutra may be preserved.” R p. 239 “Then the four groups…. (continue to page 240) ….Wonderful Dharma Flower Sutra to someone.” Two Buddhas Sitting Side-by-Side Today the reading is much shorter than…
Till You Are Full – June 9, 2012 Meditation
 
Till You Are Full – June 9, 2012 Meditation
Till You Are Full Supposedly there is an old custom of greeting folks in Chinese. Instead of simply asking ‘how are you?’ people would inquire ‘have you eaten until you are full?’ This form of greeting may have originated from a time when food was scarce, perhaps not even knowing when the next meal would…
Contemplating Disease – Part 5a – Comforting the Ill – August 29, 2018
 
Contemplating Disease – Part 5a – Comforting the Ill – August 29, 2018
At this point I’d like to make a little detour away from Chih-I and look at Vimalakirti.  I mentioned earlier that the illness we are talking about do not cover those taken on by Buddhas or Bodhisattvas for the purpose of instruction, such as the illness of Vimalakirti.  Yet in the Vimalakirti Sutra we can…

“To Anyone Who is Struggling” you matter you are i…

Ryusho 龍昇 January 6, 2016 January 6, 2016

“To Anyone Who is Struggling” you matter you are important @ChScaturro medium.com/keep-learning-… #abused #alone #youmatter

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“Helping Children Stay Connected to Their Incarcer…

Ryusho 龍昇 January 6, 2016 January 6, 2016

“Helping Children Stay Connected to Their Incarcerated Parents” medium.com/on-ripple/help… #prisonreform #prisoners #Incarceration

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Read part one first “He Called Us Niggers — Part 2…

Ryusho 龍昇 January 6, 2016 January 6, 2016

Read part one first “He Called Us Niggers — Part 2” @TorriOats medium.com/@TorriOats/he-…

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Ryusho 龍昇 January 6, 2016 January 6, 2016

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