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Contemplating Disease – New Book – Part I – Aug 20, 2018
(Contemplating Disease will be the working title I will use for posts relating to my next book dealing with Disease, our Buddhist practice, and the Lotus Sutra.) For the majority of my life I have in one way or another engaged in the caring for people suffering from various diseases and illnesses. First, as…
Poisonous Food – June 3, 2012 Meditation
Poisonous Food It makes sense to avoid poisonous food, right? Who wants to risk their health eating something that isn’t safe? Of course you might be thinking of actual direct poisoning, yet the poisoning can be less immediately lethal and still cause long term harm. Today we are more aware of the harms of our…
Relationship To Lotus Sutra – August 25, 2012 Meditation
Relationship To Lotus Sutra Studying the Lotus Sutra we learn of many predictions of future enlightenment for various individuals and groups of people who are present with the Buddha as he reveals the Lotus Sutra. The Buddha is approached numerous times by folks seeking their own predictions of future enlightenment.
On the ground
Cinabon
What are we doing?
Tonight I was chatting with a young man at a gas station convenience store. It turns out that he works there from 5PM – 11PM then goes home for a short while before heading to his next job working at FedEx from 3AM – 8AM. I know he is not that unusual, in the amount of effort he has to put into piecing together several jobs in order to create a “full-time job”. Probably,…
Getting Stsrted
Tonight I created a blog using WordPress. The main reason for doing so was because of compatability with the iPhone. I had resurected my blog on my .me account hosted through Mac, but there is no way to make entries using an iPhone, which is how this entry is being made.