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Contemplating Disease – Part 12d – Ten Characteristics – December 26, 2018
Fourth of the Ten Characteristics is Constancy. By this Chih-I means that the methods we employ for living in disease should all be consistent. Every thought, every effort, every should be focused upon our belief and actions in living in disease. It would be counter productive for us as believers in the Lotus Sutra and…
Staying Motivated in Your Faith and Practice – Video – May 11, 2020
Staying Motivated in your practice can be challenging even during ideal circumstances. For many though ideal circumstances rarely occur. For some practice is done as an isolated individual with no temple, no organized community of believers accessible. For others it can be an unrelenting obstacles that is difficult overcome and requiring many months or years…
Dharma Rain – Sunday 24, 2013 Meditation
Dharma Rain Nichiren Pardoned from Izu Exile 1263 Good morning thank you for your presence today, either here in the temple or by joining the service on line, or by reading this blog posting. Today we remember Nichiren being pardoned from his first exile, the exile to Izu peninsula. In fact most every service we…
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.