TEXT:
Saving grace, as was made clear by Shan Tao's dream and advice to Tao Cho, only comes through the sange-mon.
COMMENTARY:
Sange means confession or contrition. The sange mon is, literally, the “gate of contrition”.
According to the story, towa
The way that Pureland Buddhism is sometimes presented, it starts to sound like monotheism. This is not surprising given that the conventional speech forms of monotheism are known to us all and, however much we might think we have rejected or moved aw
Read more…QUESTION: This may seem a bizarre question but one I would like a Buddhist view on.is suicide a sin,in Christianity to commit suicide is a total sin considered evil and completely against all it teaches but in Japanese culture from the past a way of
Read more…Continuing the Commentary upon Summary of Faith and Practice
TEXT
Thus all obstacles become impediments to faith unless we experience contrition and letting go.
Path with a Goal
When we undertake a spiritual project, we are trying to achieve someth
I have posted a paper here.
If you are interested in the foundations of Buddhism, especially Mahayna, this may be of interest. I have been busy translating Dong Shan's poems and other material from Chinese and have arrived at rather different conclus
Read more…Mid-March and we might still have frosts to come. Apart from the proud daffodils this is the season of tiny flowers. Can somebody identify these little wonders for me? We have millions of them...
Look at those lovely darker blue lines in the petals g
There is no cause for happiness,
only misery wants reason,
yet happiness has prompts innumerable
while misery is mute;
yet when we know the cause of our distress
it has its limit with its season,
only enduring malady is unable
to give account that is not mo
