Tag Archives: life-and-death
Funerals
The following is a short extract from an interview with Ikumi Hirose (“Butsuzo Girl,” or Buddha-statue Girl) in the latest edition of Prapanca journal. Q. Japanese Buddhism is sometimes called “funeral Buddhism” by its critics who say that temples have lost touch with younger people. How do you feel about Japanese temple Buddhism? A. “[P]eople can realize important truths [...]
Working through spiritual dissonance
This is kind of ‘take 3′ at the stuff I have been bumping up against recently. I borrowed the title from a tweet by Wamae (Oneinchbuddha) The other day I was clumsily musing on the status of unmanifested values or convictions and Jerry compassionately suggested this might be one of those ‘unprofitable questions’ the Buddha [...]
Memento Mori
Today a few memento mori, including Ben Howard’s latest post at One Time, One Meeting, caused my mind to flash back to something I wrote recently in relation to the first chapter of Stephen Batchelor’s Living with the Devil: Batchelor: “The opposite of “contingency” is “necessity.” No matter how ephemeral and insignificant I recognize this human life of mine [...]
Self (Jiko)
I cleaned my shrine on Wednesday night and, clearing out the unit it sits on, found I have accumulated more incense than I am ever likely to use in a life-time. If any of my UK-based Dharma-friends need any please let me know and I will post you some or bring it to the temple [...]
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