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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. ...

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...

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...

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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Hidden Problems – May 30, 2012 Meditation

Hidden Problems I recently purchased some plants to put in the back yard of the temple. Up until this year I have put the most effort into making the front of the temple inviting, relaxing and hopefully a little nice. A lot of the front of the temple is taken up by parking area so…

Prayer vs. Meditation – August 16, 2012 Meditation

Prayer vs. Meditation “Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” So goes the line in the story of Snow White. No matter how often or no matter how vigorously the queen beseeched the mirror to tell her she was the fairest the mirror never did. The property of mirrors, if we…

Ignorance, Is It Bliss? – August 19, 2012 Meditation

Ignorance, Is It Bliss? Some of you may know that I have been having some health problems lately, nothing too serious though, and certainly nothing that won’t be manageable. But I’m going to be honest with you, I am behaving as the typical male of our species. There is definitely a part of me that…

Chapter II: Part 1 – Inexplicable by Words

Ryusho 龍昇 March 14, 2016 April 17, 2016

It is March 2016 as we begin examining the manifestation of the Chapter II, Expedient Means, from the Lotus Sutra. There is so much to explore in this, the longest chapter in the Lotus Sutra. For this chapter and probably for other chapters in the Lotus Sutra I will not be limiting myself, or you, to only the Murano translation. There are good words and good phrases in other translations which sometimes elicit more images…

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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

Archived Posts

Hidden Problems – May 30, 2012 Meditation

Prayer vs. Meditation – August 16, 2012 Meditation

Ignorance, Is It Bliss? – August 19, 2012 Meditation

Chapter II: Part 1 – Inexplicable by Words

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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

Archived Posts

Hidden Problems – May 30, 2012 Meditation

Prayer vs. Meditation – August 16, 2012 Meditation

Ignorance, Is It Bliss? – August 19, 2012 Meditation

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