Hello friends, Transient are all compounded things,Subject to arise and vanish;Having come into existence they pass away;Good is the peace when they forever cease. ~ Excerpt from Maha-parinibbana Sutta. My mother passed away August 31, 2000. Nearly 13 years ago, I was barely out of high school, and my two little sisters were both under the age […]
Hello again, dear friends. Today, my brief time reading has been focused on the Fire Discourse, or Adittapariyaya Sutta, in which the Buddha speaks of the flames of passion, aversion, and delusion. It really is a brief read, but carries with it much of what I envision being the most basic of teachings in Buddhism — […]
Good morning, friends. By now, I’m sure you have noticed that the face of the blog has changed a little bit. I think I was inspired to make the change as a result of changes at home. I may make other minor changes to the site’s arrangement, but I don’t intend to switch themes again […]
I had an interesting experience this morning when a duo of Jehovah’s Witnesses showed up at our door to talk about God. They handed me a flyer, titled “Would You Like to Know the Truth,” and proceeded to discuss with me all of the chaos in the world and their view on how one can […]
From the Sutta Nipata (Attadandasutta): Burn up what’s before, and have nothing for after. If you don’t grasp at what’s in between, you will go about, calm. For whom, in name & form, in every way, there’s no sense of mine, and who doesn’t grieve over what is not: he, in the world, isn’t defeated, […]
This most recent Sunday brought an interesting “field trip” of sorts for me, I joined my friends from Chùa Phật Bảo (the Vietnamese temple I’ve been going to) for a visit at a temple in Kentucky located about 90 miles south-west of Cincinnati. The occasion was a sort of somber one in this case as the […]
Daily I watch the tendrils of craving which all too often plague my mind. I am practicing the means of paving the leaving of these things behind. My identity, a length of iron chain wrapped around me as a tether. May it never again cause me such pain! My goal: to sever this fetter. So […]
