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Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13a – January 15, 2019
It is reasonable that a person may question how a practice of a religion that fundamentally does not believe in an external solution to the sufferings of life, how that religion could provide a source for support for living with illness. In other words if we don’t pray to someone or something to assist us…
Refugium Sangha Building – Dharma Talk – September 16, 2019
Refugium Sangha Building I ran across this word the other day and it got me to thinking once again about Sangha, taking refuge, and being a refugee. The classical Latin definition of refugium is a place or means of shelter, a place to flee or retreat. The modern definition has a more biological or ecological…
Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13j – January 21, 2019
Next is the instruction to straighten one’s body. This can be problematic for many who are sick, especially with some internal injuries and with skeletal challenges. Here is my thinking on this, and I insert my thinking here because Chih-I doesn’t talk about this in his writing, the challenges of not being able to straighten…
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beginning “Sister Maddie sat alone in the library…
beginning “Sister Maddie sat alone in the library, warming her outstretched hands by the fire. She thought about… goodreads.com/quotes/7393896…