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Why Pure Land?

I was interested in Buddhism when I was a child but the only books I could find about it were all very dry and boring even when the author had an amusing name like ‘Christmas’. None of them came...

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My Vows

When the seeker is close to enlightenment, when the arrow is ready to fly, I vow that I will devotedly teach the quick way to enlightenment. If souls are not yet ready, I vow that I will devotedly...

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Moral Courage Is Impure

To stay true to your experiences, to the truth, when you might be the only witness is hard. You look at something and it looks white. You say so. Everyone else says, no no, it is black! There is a...

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Buddha In The Bowl

Warm weather here in England. I watched a magpie in the garden. She had found some stale bread but it had been baked hard by the sun. It was too hard to eat. She carefully broke the crust into pieces,...

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Chewing Cardboard

I have read descriptions of Pureland (or Pure Land) Buddhism which say that those who follow this path must rely totally on the ‘other-power’ of Buddha and devote themselves tirelessly to chanting the...

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Buddhist Art

What I like about Western Buddha sculpture is the drive to individuate, to show a unique person rather than an abstraction. In an earlier post I distinguished ‘myth’ and ‘history’. Western Buddhist...

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Sleeping Buddha

I think this is the Thai ‘Tuesday Buddha’ or maybe Wednesday…? Smile. Anyhoo, definitely one of the eight daily Buddhas. Eight days in a week because in Thailand Wednesday is counted as two days and...

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Music, Chanting, Silence #2

I found this YouTube video about Gagaku, if readers were wondering about this and wanted to know more. The documentary was produced from the perspective of western musicologists not Buddhists seeking...

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