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Sakyo and Shabutsu Dharma Talk – 23 October 2016
Ritual and Music – August 17, 2012 Meditation
March Trilogy – Books 1-3 by Congressman John Lewis
Books One, Two, and Three Available Book One Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper’s farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American…
BLM Reading list for teens and YA
Suggested Reading This curated list of suggested reading for Young Adults and teens comes from a list put together by Chelsea Couillard-Smith, a librarian for Hennepin County (MN) Library. The list can be found also at Black Lives Matter Reads for Teens. (The links below where available take you to Amazon. Purchases made through these links do generate income at no expense to you, for the temple. It is small, and every small bit helps. I thought you…
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. So too in our lives all of our outward self, our actions and behaviors are integral to who we are, even if they may at…
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 a variety of ways. The idea was to show how even though our appearance or behavior at times seems to not be that of the…