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To Be a Heathen…
This is part of an ongoing series of posts by Jon whose personal blog is ‘Blathering Nonsense’ going back several months now a friend lent me Exploring the Northern Tradition (Galina Krasskova) when i expressed an interest in his own faith and more generally,was discussing with him the integration of personal faith into daily life. i guess the question which [...]
Notes: One Korean’s Approach to Buddhism (K3)
‘One Korean’s approach to Buddhism: the mom/momjit paradigm by Sung-bae Park (SUNY Press, 2009) p.35 – “Whatever perception of mom we have, it will by its very nature be limited. Our understanding of the transcendent realm of mom is a creative construction erected entirely by our minds and does not represent its true reality.” p.35 – [...]
Notes: One Korean’s Approach to Buddhism (K2)
‘One Korean’s approach to Buddhism: the mom/momjit paradigm by Sung-bae Park (SUNY Press, 2009) “We can’t begin to address our suffering — much less properly enter into the state of nonduality until we have made our own priorities, and the priorities of the world around us clear. We can’t deal with the health of the [...]
A Reflection on ‘Practice’
I have been reading through the chapter on Practice in Shinran Shonin’s Kyogyoshinsho ahead of the upcoming retreat to be held at our Temple on that theme. It is encouraging to note that after several years of reading the Kyogyoshinsho is starting to transform itself from appearing to be a haphazard patchwork of quotations interspersed [...]
Link: Dosho Port – ‘Verification Monologues’
A provocative post by Dosho Port that, though aimed at “the just (dead) sitting crowd”, I think contains challenging questions for those like me who lean towards so-called ‘other-power’ (tariki) framings of the path: What I’m saying here is that although practice and enlightenment are not separate as people commonly believe, neither are they one [...]
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