BDG on YouTube: The Ordinary Buddhist - Taking Refuge from the Wind

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The Ordinary Buddhist: Taking Refuge from the Wind

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✨ Even then... ✨

🪷 Tender wisdom from Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) 🪷

💛 What is quietly blooming, even now? 💛

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) 🪷

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) 🪷

✨ A world of grief and pain: / Flowers bloom; / Even then... — Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) ✨

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BDG on YouTube: The Amitabha Sutra: A Dharma Talk with Ven. Guan Cheng (Lecture 21)

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BDG on YouTube: The Ordinary Buddhist - Growing Grass

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The Ordinary Buddhist: Growing Grass

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BDG Feature: A Correct Understanding of the Core Teaching in the Amitabha Sutra

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BDG on YouTube: The Amitabha Sutra: A Dharma Talk with Ven. Guan Cheng (Lecture 20)

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The Amitabha Sutra: A Dharma Talk with Ven. Guan Cheng (Lecture 20)

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The Call of Amida and Buddhist Historiography

This post looks at the writings of Honen, and through various earlier Chinese-Buddhist sources to explore the "Path of the Sages" versus the "Path of the Pure Land". #Buddhism #PureLand #Amida #Nembutsu

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The Call of Amida and Buddhist Historiography

This post looks at the writings of Honen, and through various earlier Chinese-Buddhist sources to explore the “Path of the Sages” versus the “Path of the Pure Land”. #Buddhi…

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BDG on YouTube: The Ordinary Buddhist - Thunder and Lightning

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Since I spent too much money on mangas I'm also returning to unread books that have been on my shelf for some time now.

For example, I think I was a bit overenthusiastic after listening to a presentation by Rev. Patti Nakai and got the "Soga Ryojin Reader". I haven't read (nor understood for that matter) much. But I dusted off the book today and started rereading the essay "A Savior On Earth". Sure, there's still stuff that I don't understand or agree with. But this passage really spoke to me:

"[Dharmakara] deigned to be born directly in the heart-mind of us human beings. This calling voice directed at all sentient beings of the ten directions did not come from the high world of pure light, nor was it uttered objectively by one human person. This voice arose from the dark breast of suffering of each human being. That the Primal Vow of Dharmakara Bodhisattva is called the ark on the great ocean of samsara intimates that the calling voice arose from the depth of my soul, from right under my feet."

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