Understanding the three objects of refuge — Buddha, Dharma and Sangha — we also need to know that there are three ways of taking refuge, which are based on our intentions. The first way is taking refuge with a mundane or worldly aspiration. It is very common all over the world for peo...
“Yet once more,” indicates the removal of what is shaken–that is, created things–so that what cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us give thanks,
When the great universal teacher Shakyamuni Buddha first spoke about the Dharma in the noble land of India, he taught the four noble truths: true sufferings, true origins or causes of sufferings, true stopping or cessations of sufferings, and true pathway minds or paths leading to the stopping...
KILLED BY PERFUME – a tale of Japan, earthquakes, and my potentially toppling, lethal, perfume cabinets It is eight years since the catastrophic tsunami in the north. Sometimes I repost this piece as a memorial / capturing of those terrible times. viaKILLED BY PERFUME – a tale of Japan, ...
Tender, trustful, full of balm, Thou must breathe in spirits calm. ~Caroline May, 1887 Anne, sitting at her tower window one late November evening, with her pen at her lip and dreams in her eyes, looked out on a twilight world and suddenly thought she would like a walk to the old ...
With authority and power he gives orders to impure spirits and they come out!” 37And the news about him spread throughout the surrounding area. Jesus Heals Many 38Jesus left the synagogue and went to the home of Simon. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a high fever, and ...
Like spirits round a good man's dying bed... ~John Askham, "September" As the sun sinks, doubling his disc in the October smoke, the low, south wind creeps over the withered tree-tops, and drips the leaves upon the land. The windows that were wide open at noon, are closed; and ...
#7. You are the one who always supported me at my worst and took care of me when I needed it, I just want to thank you for making me feel better! #8. Enduring great pain and suffering, you brought our child on earth and gave endless joy to me. Thanks to the almighty and you ...
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All shapes, even nightmarish forms, are there because of the mind. If there was no mind, there would be no form. Because a blind man cannot see, for him, there is no colour. We perceive colours when our eye-consciousness is working, and with this consciousness, we distinguish and label...