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A Reflection on Prayer
If there is a deity that responds to petition then an understanding of prayer as compassionately concerned awareness may seem but a petty, fragile thing by comparison. Yet if there is no such divine the latter takes on a profound importance.
Bodhicitta and Prayer
I know some people who are extremely caring but also great worriers. Part of me is utterly moved and humbled by the natural and uncalculating kindness they show towards others. At other times though I feel sorry that they go through a lot of mental anguish over situations that they have no power over. In both contexts [...]
Tricycle blog
Tricycle magazine’s blog has greatly improved this year don’t you think? Just yesterday I was very struck by two posts in particular: * Rodney Smith on anatta: No-Self, Not-Self, or Non-Self? (Philip Ryan, July 21 2010) - Part of this quotation resonates very helpfully with the Genshin passage I posted the other day. “The fundamental principle we [...]
Link: Amida’s Protection?
The great thread Book Discussion-Ganso Daishi Gohogo-Chapter One-An Extraordinary Encounter over at the Jodo Shu forum, which I linked the other day, has raised another couple of interesting topics; (1) The Nature of Amida’s Protection, and (2) Karma. I suspect that my views on these topics, as they stand at this point in time, are somewhat [...]
Notes on ‘Keep Me in Your Heart a While’ by Dosho Port
Keep Me in Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri by Dosho Port (2008) Kyōshin’s Notes: This recent book has become one of my favourite modern Zen texts. In fact if I were to recommend two 20th/21st century books on Zen I would offer this one for its honest appraisal of Zen [...]
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