Making Images: from the land of a million gods
In the developed world, we are actually taught to make images to symbolise or represent almost everything—images for remembering, for recognising, to navigate, and so on, and we excel at it.
Japanese Rituals
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Prince Shotoku: Founder of Japanese Buddhism and the Japanese nation
‘HARMONY IS THE MOST PRECIOUS ASSET. WE ALL ALTERNATE BETWEEN WISDOM & MADNESS. IT IS A CLOSED CIRCLE.’ SHOTOKU SEVENTEEN-ARTICLE CONSTITUTION
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Temple Chronicle: Winter Training in Japan – Fear!
The heavily conditioned mind thrives on this substance ‘fear.’ It efficiently suppresses originality and the courage to be truly ourselves, first with others, but then eventually with ourselves, so that we are no longer familiar with our True Nature and become self-dishonest.
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Temple Chronicle: 20th February
it is wise to refrain from talk until you have checked your flow of love
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Temple Chronicle: 5th February
The objective of all Buddhist training, of any spiritual training, is to first become a better, happier person, and then to look after other sentient beings, developing unwavering respect
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Temple Chronicle: 1st February
Again cold and unforgiving weather today. It is thought to be a good sign because it will help those following to truly remember what the masters did 80 years ago
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Temple Chronicle: winter austerities
The morning air is fresh, the severe coldness has receded for a few days. But it will return. The edifice of the temple reposes as the sun rises. I want
Japanese Rituals
O Bon: the return of the spirits to the visible world
It is sizzling summer here which induces a panic in non-natives used to more temperate climates. We cannot survive without air conditioning, so it is difficult to stay long in