Ihave just recently started listening to your podcasts and I am hooked. I was first introduced to Buddhism in a religious studies course and was immediately intrigued. I’ve always wanted to learn more and try to put it into practice, but I didn’t know where to begin and most books and...
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For Tolkien (in his pious Christian framework) this escape was in later history of Middle Earth to be guaranteed by Christ – as obliquely hinted at in the Silmarillion. For Buddhists of course this only comes about through remarkable spiritual practice (or the grace of Amitabha in Far Eastern...
“So I entreat the Great Compassion to show me the proper path, for I am willing to practice cultivation.” […] “If you have such a purpose, wait until I reach the Great Tang Nation in the Land of the East [China] and find the scripture pilgrim. He will be told to come and ...
THE BLIND, DONALD J. DRUMPF AND THE OPEN GATES OF HELL “Darkness is good,” Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. SATAN. That’s power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they’reBLINDto who we are and what we’re doing.” Steve Bannon, President- select Donald J. Drumpf’s Chi...
This represents what is most alive in me today; tomorrow, I might say something completely different. May we all stay open to the possibility of holding multiple perspectives at once. That is, after all, the promise of liberation — of Enlightenment! — that inspires my practice. ...
Thanks for this course. The step by step approach allowed me to relax into the drawing practice. I enjoyed the additional learning through the lectures and now know more about the Buddha iconography as a result. Looking forward to the colouring course next to finish my piece. I haven’t dra...
First phase (Jp. = Shōbō or Shobo 正法) lasting 1,000 years, during which Buddhism gains acceptance and spreads, and followers have the capacity to understand and practice Buddhist law. This is the period following the death of theHistorical Buddha. According to the calendar of those days,...
tamashii is understood to be an impersonal entity, but when it attaches itself to a physical object or human being, it takes on concrete qualities and becomes apprehended as kami. The two concepts are not always clearly discriminated in practice, however. <above quoted from Kokugakuin University...
become his disciples, and soon afterwards they too attained enlightenment -- in Sanskrit they are known as theArhan(Jp. = Arakan阿羅漢), an Indian word meaning "one who is worthy of receiving obeisance" or “slayer of enemies.”Arhatshipis the main goal of all who practiceTheravada ...