... original dharma ... This is essential for all aspiring Buddhas. To walk the White Path is to move your own feet along whatever path it is that you will ...
Hi everyone, Thank you for putting up with my silliness. I received some really great advice on my kanji dilemma and I deeply appreciate it. My GGGF in...
onlooking expedite searching the grey coil for dove symbiotic harmony pacing the pretences of exceptive overall circumstance a shadow holing a candle of an...
Hello all, Stephen Batchelor, in his BUDDHISM WITHOUT BELIEFS, describes the First Ennobling Truth of suffering as 'anguish' which he defines as what one ...
... harmony pacing the pretences of exceptive overall circumstance a shadow holing a candle of an expiate group in sharpness an arrival christening diversities...
I went back and reread your last post and had no problems with it. The points made are often made in our Temple. What may have appeared virulent I saw as deep...
Greetings, I am recovering from throat cancer and found my way to Amida's Light in the realization that only the Buddha Way did not try to sugarcoat my...
In a message dated 8/9/04 5:15:26 PM, ANPUHERU@... writes: ... harmony pacing the pretences of exceptive overall circumstance a shadow holing a candle of...
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Aug 10, 2004 11:40 am
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... different ways, ... not being ... This speaks to me of the Self-power we are warned against. It is relying on Self-power, not the lack of it, that is a...
Hi Todd, Self-power, as I understand it, is an illusion -- the illusion that any being can separate itself from the interdependent nexus and bring about its...
... The translation I have used sees Manjusri as the precursor to Maitreya and both are referred to in the Larger Sutra as I read it. Gassho, lotusaware...
In a message dated 8/10/04 2:33:54 PM, kyobo@... writes: << Self-power is about relying on one's own resources to accumulate merit. I have no interest...
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Aug 11, 2004 12:00 pm
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Hi Lotusaware, I went through the Larger Sutra and found only one mention of Manjushri. Would you mind pointing me to the sections you're speaking of? With...
... Hi Rick, This is a curious statement, as I can't imagine under what circumstances Amida's compassion wouldn't be operative. If even the five grave...
Rick: "For those who think they can better themselves and attain realization by their own efforts, Amida's compassion is there but is not operative." Kyobo:...
... As I understand it from my studies, Amida's salvific action does not extend to the person who entrusts themselves to self-power (jiriki) on the so-called ...
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Aug 11, 2004 4:15 pm
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... circumstances Amida's ... do not ... considerably ... from ... I think you are still too attached to the conecepts of "I" and "It". To say that one can be...
... Dear heeznow, Actually I think there is a valid dualism here - if I and Amida were the same, there would be no saving and the nembutsu would be...
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Aug 11, 2004 5:56 pm
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Dear Rick and Todd, The same Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor martyred for his resistance to Hitler, spoke of "cheap grace." In a Shin context that...
In a message dated 8/11/04 11:52:37 PM, kyobo@... writes: << The same Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor martyred for his resistance to Hitler,...
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Aug 12, 2004 11:59 am
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... Hi Rick, I guess we're in a gray area here that we all can only conjecture about. From my perspective, Amida is our atmosphere, permeating and saturating...
... about. From ... our every ... we breathe ... other than us, ... I think this is what I was trying to say. I've never been good the a short answer! (lol)...
... were the ... meaningless. ... true. I think you jump the gun here. To say that we are not one with Amida Buddha because we are not Enlightened already is...
... Very poetically and sensitively articulated, and it makes a lot of sense! thanks, and gassho, Rick (Egen) In a message dated 8/12/04 10:24:36 AM,...
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Aug 12, 2004 5:17 pm
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... Dear heeznow, I don't believe I said we are not one with Amida. What I meant to say is that we merge with Amida while retaining our nature as foolish ...
Shin02143@...
Aug 12, 2004 5:23 pm
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Taking the conversation of rebirth one step further -- and picking up on some of the things Paul said (where is Paul, anyway?) -- I'd like to give some think...
... Kyobo, That's a very good question and a very interesting topic. This opens up the whole vista of what birth in the pure land of Amida means not only for ...
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Aug 13, 2004 3:34 pm
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Shinran's final words" "Though I return to the Pure Land of Eternal Peace after my life is at an end, Yet shall I return to this world, again and again, Just...
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