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ALEXANDER: You think that’s what I want? Become one of them? Become my own enemy? Just lie around like a big blob of nothing and have things done for me? I want to move around for myself. If I’m going to laugh or cry, I want do it for myself. You can keep your precious power.
Star Trek, “Plato’s Stepchildren” (s3:ep10), stardate 5784.2The Buddhist concep...
Shortly after attending last month’s online otsutome liturgy at Rinkaian Temple, I ordered their English-language publications from Amazon, including a titled Otsutome.1 This book has been very helpful for me i...
Hey folks, the good folks at Rinkaian Temple, a Jodo Shu Buddhist temple in Tokyo that I talked about previously are holding their next monthly otsutome (“liturgy”, お勤め) servic...
In my little introductory book on Rinzai Zen Buddhism, there is a nice passage I’ve been thinking about lately:
「そのためには、この世の現実を的確に把握することが重要である」とお釈迦さまは述べました。そして「物事にはすべて原因があって結果がある」と説きました。これを「縁起」といいます。つまり、苦の根本的な原因がなくなれば、苦悩もなくなるということです。
The Buddha ...