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    Making Amends Paid Member

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    Clark Strand

    Made a list of all those we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. How far were we to go in making our amends to those we had harmed? Should we move to a yurt in the woods? reduce our carbon footprint? become an advocate for third world countries whose environments had been decimated by our greed for cheap disposable products? And what was the purpose of such an exercise? Was it to assuage our guilt, or were we actually expected to right our ecological wrongs? More »
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    Green Koan Case 54: Nichiren’s One-Eyed Turtle Paid Member

    By Clark Strand
    CASE #54:    Nichiren’s One-Eyed Turtle Nichiren Daishonin wrote: “This is as rare as the one-eyed turtle finding a suitable hollow in a floating sandalwood log, or a thread lowered from the heavens passing through the eye of a needle on earth. How wondrous!” BACKGROUND:Nichiren Daishonin     Nichiren (1222 – 1282) is the founder of the sect of Japanese Buddhism that bears his name. Nichiren Buddhists believe it is possible to attain Buddhahood in this lifetime by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo (the title of the Lotus Sutra) with an attitude of intense devotion and faith. Daishonin is an honorific, meaning “Great Saint” or “Great Sage.” More »
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    The Eight Worldly Concerns Week 4: Pleasure and Pain (transcript) Paid Member

    The Eight Worldly Concerns Week 4: Pleasure and Pain More »
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    The Eight Worldly Concerns Week 4: Pleasure and Pain (transcript) Paid Member

    The Eight Worldly Concerns Week 4: Pleasure and Pain More »
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    Green Koan Case 53: Shakyamuni’s World on Fire Paid Member

    By Clark Strand
    CASE #53:    Shakyamuni’s World on FireShayamuni Buddha taught: “The world is always burning, burning with the fires of greed, anger and foolishness; one should flee from such dangers as soon as possible.”BACKGROUND:The world is always burning     The passage, which appears in the book The Teachings of Buddha, translated into many languages and distributed free of charge around the world by Bukkyō Dendō Kyōkai (The Society for Buddhist Understanding), is an amalgam of statements made by Shakyamuni in diverse sutras. More »