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Healing Our Vision – August 5, 2012 Meditation
Healing Our Vision In the Jewish faith the year is divided into months that correspond to a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, a zodiac sign, one of the 12 tribes of Israel, a limb of the body, and a sense. My original idea for this posting was to have it appear in the correct month,…
New Year’s Greeting – 1 January 2016
Good morning. Happy New Year 2016. I suppose I could end my greeting here and have said perhaps the most important thing I could say. Somehow though it doesn’t seem enough. So I’ll just keep going. I received an email New Years message from a Sangha member today. In the email, the individual shared with…
Name of Buddha – Part 9a – September 18, 2019
Mystical Buddha The Lotus Sutra is a unity, it is as Nichiren teaches a collection of individual characters each of which is a Buddha. When all these individual characters are strung together in unity it becomes the Lotus Sutra, it also becomes the name of the Eternal Buddha, or the mystical name of Buddha. The…
Five Implements of Skillful Means for Entry to the Dharma
Zeal, Vigor, Mindfulness, Discernment, Single-Mindedness These Five Implements were presented by Chih-i in his “Essentials for Practicing Calming and Insight and Dhyana Meditation” Zeal – First a person much possess the desire, the willingness to change something. Without this aspiring to change there is no initial cause for implementation. Vigor – Next a person must approach the task with effort, and a willingness to accomplish the task without letting up. Not being afraid to challenge…