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Guide – May 15, 2012 Meditation
Guide Myoken Bodhisattva Day The Bodhisattva Myoken is related to the North Star, the pole star for the northern hemisphere. The pole star, in this case the north star is called such because its appearance in the sky in the northern hemisphere aligns with the northern pole and does not deviate by our normal viewing,…
Contemplating Disease – Cessation – Part 13j – January 21, 2019
Next is the instruction to straighten one’s body. This can be problematic for many who are sick, especially with some internal injuries and with skeletal challenges. Here is my thinking on this, and I insert my thinking here because Chih-I doesn’t talk about this in his writing, the challenges of not being able to straighten…
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.