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Taoism – The Endless Further
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March 30, 2017. March 31, 2017. Chuang Tzu was a great Taoist sage during the Chinese era of the Warring States (475-221 BC). Over the years, I’ve posted a number of stories from the book that bears his name. And the butterfly dream is probably the most famous of those stories. Hopefully, you won’t mind reading it again, or perhaps it is new to you. James Legge, one of the first to render the. One afternoon, as he was dozing:. The Great Way is not difficult. For those who have no preferences. At any rate...
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Heart Sutra: The Heart Within The Heart – The Endless Further
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Heart Sutra: The Heart Within The Heart. November 11, 2013. September 28, 2015. The Heart Sutra has only two hundred seventy Chinese characters, yet it contains all of Mahayana Buddhism’s teaching. Inside this sutra is the essence of the Diamond Sutra, the Avatamsaka-sutra, and the Lotus Sutra. It contains the meaning of all the eighty-four thousand sutras. Or Transcendent Wisdom (the sutra is called the “Heart of Transcendent Wisdom”, after all). Over-emphasizing the teaching of emptiness in the Heart S...
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Delight: Thunder over Earth – The Endless Further
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Delight: Thunder over Earth. July 22, 2015. Remnants of former Hurricane Dolores off Baja California barreled through our area this past weekend, bringing much needed rain along with a few other things. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Works captured 245 million gallons of storm water from the downpours. That much rain is highly unusual for Southern California at this time of year. Normally, we see no rain, I mean. We often think of storms and dark skies as something gloomy. In the. Now, thund...
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Ethics and Inspiring the Mind – The Endless Further
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Ethics and Inspiring the Mind. May 26, 2015. July 29, 2015. I’ve read a lot in the Buddhist Blogosphere recently on the subject of ethics, as part of the on-going discussion about the secularization of mindfulness. The concern for some folks is that as Buddhist meditation moves further into the secular mainstream, it has lost its original ethical component. An emphasis on morality in other spiritualities, particularly those in the West, has often led to moralizing, which is almost universally viewed as p...
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Even Plants and Trees Have Buddha-nature – The Endless Further
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Even Plants and Trees Have Buddha-nature. April 30, 2012. July 29, 2015. Two of these trees were destroyed by over-trimming and eventually cut down. Incompetent tree-trimming is a real problem here in Los Angeles. None of the people who do this sort of work seem to have any idea of how to prune a tree properly. They engage in topping and tipping, two practices that are extremely harmful to trees. Today they cut away at it some more, and now, it’s just ugly. If simply the fact that they are alive is not r...
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Heart Sutra – The Endless Further
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Great Heart of Transcendent Wisdom Sutra. Kuan Yin Bodhisattva, while practicing deep Prajna-Paramita, clearly saw that all five Skandhas are empty and crossed over all suffering. Shariputra, form is emptiness, emptiness is form. Form does not differ from emptiness; emptiness does not differ from form. Sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness are also like this. Gone, Gone, Gone Beyond, Gone Far Beyond, Be Set Upon Awakening! Ethics and Inspiring the Mind. Heart Sutra: The Heart Within The Heart.
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Cecil the Lion, and the Story of Savari the Hunter and Kuan Yin – The Endless Further
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Cecil the Lion, and the Story of Savari the Hunter and Kuan Yin. August 3, 2015. August 3, 2015. By now you must have heard about Cecil the Lion. But if you haven’t, here is a brief account of the facts:. Once the story hit the Internet, it went viral, and many were outraged. It is a sad fact that Americans regularly kill that lions, elephants, rhinos and other big game animals for sport. It’s sad that anyone does. I say if you’re going to shoot big game, use a camera. I am a hunter, the stranger replied.
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The Endless Further – Page 2
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July 29, 2016. July 29, 2016. Born on this day in 1805 was Alexis de Tocqueville, the French statesman who wrote. Following a nine month visit to the United States in 1831-32. The young country he found on his trip, the democracy still in its infancy, continues to flourish, and his book, published in 1840, remains an influential book about the United States. Simultaneously, it seems that fate has taken a hand this time around, and the differences between the two alternatives seems startlingly clear. ...
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The Winds of Doctrine – The Endless Further
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The Winds of Doctrine. August 5, 2011. Conrad Aiken, a poet I admire very much, was born on this day in 1899. You can get some details on his life here at his Wikipedia page. If you like. One of my favorite Aiken facts, not mentioned there, is that he got out of military service during World War I by claiming that as a poet he was part of an “essential industry.” The men on his draft board must have been really dumb to fall for that. Although,. It sounds perfectly reasonable. Notes that Aiken has said th...
