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It seems that Yahoo groups is messed up. I cannot access any message after number 2233. The messages seem to have disappeared into cyber-space. Too bad we...
I have been reading DK's translation of Chih-I's commentary on the second chapter and thinking on it, and I have come to some conclusions that I would like to...
Very perceptively put, Trock. But I think this is true in most things. There are very few original thinkers in this world. Most are parrots or sheep following...
Trock - you have certainly hit the nail on the head - so to speak in regards to your conclusion of the provisional wisdom which so very neatly fits the...
Hi Fufu: Just think what it means when so called 'leaders' tell you that it does not matter that you do not understand what the words of the Sutra mean - they...
The Ten Worlds ( Jikka) the condition's of daily life at any given time. I understand that Nichiren taught that everything we do when we are in our lower nine...
Hi Fufu: Actually all of the Mahayana Sutras discuss the tenfold spiritual realm (the ten worlds, J. Jikkai) and describe its many aspects. This is nothing...
Hi Aubrey: I like your description of 'stripping away' karmas and attachments. I would imagine that the emperor has no clothes as he enters into the great...
Hello Aubrey, I appreciate your post and thank you for your intuitiveness of my root query about where we go when we die , your very informative and helpful,...
Ditto, Aubs, your post was insightful and not 'following the ideas and words of others' (which is a DK/TT quote, so I am ). It's nice to hear from this...
Aubrey: I enjoyed your post; you said: << when we die, the defensive shell of our self that we have creted though our accumulated karmas and attachments is...
I am wondering if anyone knows of any masters, temples, and schools, of T'ien T'ai in China today. I was inform that the T'ien T'ai school is still existent in...
Hi Lotus Lad: I do not believe that there is a T'ien T'ai school as such in existence today. T'ien T'ai's Buddhism is studied in many Chinese (mainly...
Hi: I really miss the days when this was a club and not a group - there was a really eye-opening, spiritually awakening event going on here that I haven't...
Hi All, Some of you on this board are very familiar with who I am and others may not have a clue, so I'd like to introduce myself. :) I began practicing...
Hi Hugo: Yes this board has been quiet for quite some time. A number of the people that used to be frequent posters here have been regularly communicating...
OK I have a question that has been bothering me for a long time. I did not see it addressed in your marvelous interpretation of the Hoben Chapter. Why are the...
Greetings, I am new to the study of Buddhism so I have come here looking for some help. It is the study of Reiki which has led me here. Can someone tell me if...
Hi Hugo: This is from 'The Profound Meaning of The Lotus Sutra" (C. Fa-Hua Hsuan-I, J. Hokke Gengi): Quote: When the Master of Nan-Yueh (Chih-I's spiritual...
