A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
It
is good to stand in the middle of the stream and live rather than stand
on the bank and witness things from afar, to have both a sense of
participation and also a sense of wise detachment because one knows the
reality of things.
Becoming Our Own Guide through the Parable of the Conjured City By Mark Herrick
In
the Parable of the Conjured City—in Chapter Seven of the Lotus
Sutra—the Buddha illuminates why he has offered various teachings to
people according to their needs, capacities, and understanding.
A
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