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. Holiness Is Essence: Triple Collective Pure Precepts . Boddhi-sattvas, awakening beings, take the Sixteen Precepts consisting of the Triple Treasures, the Triple Collective Pure Precepts, and the Ten Grave Prohibitory Precepts. The Triple Collective Pure Precepts are unique in … Continue reading →

Triple Characteristics   The Buddha (Awakened One) was awakened to the truth that phenomena are dependently originated on limitless causes and conditions; this truth is called the Dharma (Norm/Law) of all dharmas (form/phenomena). All the Buddhist theories and practices are … Continue reading →

Our suffering comes from not awakening because we are karma-owners, and from not cultivating the right way or the Awakened Way. Our karma (action/habit/heredity) is instilled with the Triple Poisons of desire, divisiveness, and delusion. These create the selfish self-survival … Continue reading →

Our suffering comes from not realizing the Dharma (Norm: Law: Holy truth/ethic), because our perspective and practice are partial, like those of the born blind feeling an elephant and then arguing and even fighting, convinced that their partial views are … Continue reading →

The Doomsday Clock is the closest, 90 seconds, it has ever been to doom due to nukes, wars, climate change, mass extinctions, etc. The world is expanding militarization with nuclear weapons, making it difficult to solve other problems due to … Continue reading →

How a World Federation Would Eliminate Nuclear Weapons (Talk sponsored by the St. Louis Chapter, Citizens for Global Solutions, May 7, 2023) By Lawrence S. Wittner From the standpoint of human survival in the nuclear age, I have some bad … Continue reading →

Here are flowers in the garden of Rofu and Myoku in New Mexico:     .   Pear tree in bloom. All the blooms were knocked off Saturday evening by 60 mile an hour winds. . .   Sandia Mountain … Continue reading →

. Here are some pictures taken by Erin in Washington State and Rosan in St. Louis today: . . . . Chives . . . . . Salvia and angel . . . . . Buddha and geranium . . … Continue reading →

. . The world is suffering! The Doomsday Clock is at its closest, 100 seconds, to the midnight of doom, and the sixth mass extinction is imminent. Dictatorships, wars, and nukes are major hindrances to solving the global problematique, interrelated … Continue reading →

Today is the spring equinox, equal in day and night, chill and heat, called higan (the yonder shore: nirvana: complete equanimity), when nature starts or restarts spring and celebrates new birth with the Flower Festival (Buddha’s birthday), Easter (Jesus’ rebirth), … Continue reading →