Here is an excerpt from an email on this subject that I sent toToby Johnson, a gay author, activist and friend. He's a follower of Buddhism, although he once told me he is "as much a heretic to Buddhism as I am to Christianity." *** In Japan Buddhism was and is used to support...
19 [We have to] embrace worries and suffering,20 are terrified in innumerable ways, not [being able to] get rid [of all the troubles] for a single moment. The reason why we speak like this is that the disciples’ (i.e., our) virtue is shallow and our merits meek. [Therefore,] ...