Acharya Sujatin (temple host)

Podcast 7 April 2020

On the occasion of Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, being admitted to intensive care with COVID19

http://eleusis.ning.com/group/buddhism/forum/topics/dukkha-is-inevitable

1. Right view: This too shall pass.

2. Right thought: Compassion for those who suffer.  Gratitude for simple things.

3. Right speech: Don’t spread alarm.  Stay calm. Keep in touch with friends and loved ones by wifi.

4. Right action: Do good for others or use this time for retreat.  Consider what is essential and meaningful. Social distan…[Read more]

Amida is always busy

Always be busy with Amida.

Make all business Amida Nembutsu

Be busy with the thought of Amida

Be courageously busy supported by Amida Light

Be busy supporting Amida

Be busy praying for the Pure Land of Amida

Grateful

Don’t be late

Aspirations will come true

Be busy with doing what you are doing right now in th…[Read more]

Dharmavidya:

PAIN IN A BOMBU WORLD

In the on-line order meeting this past Saturday I said that in relation to the current world crisis caused by the arrival of a virus for which, as yet, we have no cure, I am a happy pessimist.  I’ll say a little more on this subject.

Firstly, the pessimist.  Clearly, in the present situation, there are lar…[Read more]

Dharmavidya writes:

Saigyo (1118-1190) was a wandering poet monk in Japan.  He is one of the most famous Japanese poets.  He wrote more than fifteen hundred poems, many of which became famous.  His poetry reflects his life as a rather solitary wanderer, often spending the winter in the mountains in a thatched hut far from civilisation.

The na…[Read more]

QUESTION:  I’d like to be clear about what nembutsu practice is. It’s seems from what I can glean from your writing you are saying Amida Buddhism is the work of compassion in the world in the play of opposites. So practice begins with some kind of descent into what has been disowned. So I enjoyed the way you framed the practices of Chih Quan and…[Read more]

Dharmavidya writes:

What are the Basic Teachings of Amida Shu Buddhism?
Added by Dharmavidya on July 19, 2008

Amida Shu is a form of Buddhism that affirms

– (together with all Mahayana Buddhsim) the threefold nature of Buddha (ultimate Buddha, spiritual Buddha, Buddha in the world),

– adheres to the Pureland Buddhist emphasis upon the ‘…[Read more]

Dharmavidya:

Humans press on forward.  It is like an automatic car.  The basic state of such a car is to move slowly forward.  To get it to stand still while the engine is running one actually has to apply a brake.  It will not come to a stop of its own accord.  Humans are the same.  When you learn to drive a car, the first thing to learn is ho…[Read more]

Following the discussion after the essay :: here

Dharmavidya writes:

I am making this into a new discussion as it is somewhat at a tangent from the “Unmodernising Buddhism” theme.

Clearly Anapanasati and Satipatthana were teachings that were important to the Buddha.  These were key items that he wanted disciples to hang onto.  The question i…[Read more]

BUDDHIST MODERNISM

One reads a good deal these days about Buddhist modernism.  This is a movement that began in South and South East Asia as a resistance to colonialism.  Local Buddhists wanted to present their countries as “modern” and so injected a lot of Western rationalist prejudices into their culture and religion in order to make it look …[Read more]

Video talk here :: link