Samsara is mind pulled outward when beholding externals. Lost and confused in the deluded belief in the reality of what the mind itself creates through interpretation, and then projects outward, [...]
Winter Quest 2017 — we practiced Kuji 2 alignment and revitalization and balancing of the body’s psycho-physical centers. We used the mantra “Enerchii” (“Energy”), but here is the formal practice [...]
MA-KA HAN-NYA HA-RA MI-TA SHIN-KYO “Heart” of Transcendental Wisdom Teaching KAN-JI-ZAI BO-SA-(TSU) Kannon bodhisattva GYO JIN HAN-NYA HA-RA-MI-TA steeped in transcendental wisdom JI SHO KEN GO UN KAI KU saw [...]
Religion can be said to be humanity’s attempt to know the unknowable and control the uncontrollable. Religion also entails a belief that reality is underpinned by some absolute external supernatural [...]
Did you ever have a nightmare so real that you actually felt rescued upon awakening? You felt a deep sense of joy and liberation when you realized it was “only [...]
A friend wrote critically of codes and creeds in martial arts schools. He feels people just want fitness and self-defense and do not sign up for what he calls “Boy [...]
What would it feel like if you could, after years of working hard at understanding life, sit under a tree and vow not to get up until you truly grasped [...]
Friends have asked me about some of the techniques that keep me intrigued with my Tibetan teachers who share with me their ageless lore of the Dorje Phurba “demon-defeating dagger”. [...]
The Dalai Lama – WAR AND PEACE by Spriha Srivastava | December 5, 2010 17:38 What has a Ninjutsu Master got to say about His Holiness The Dalai Lama? A [...]
Friends who visit my home sometimes compliment a large hanging thangka scroll picture of the historical Buddha displayed on the landing at the end of of my 3rd floor hallway. [...]
