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
‘HARMONY IS THE MOST PRECIOUS ASSET. WE ALL ALTERNATE BETWEEN WISDOM & MADNESS. IT IS A CLOSED CIRCLE.’ SHOTOKU SEVENTEEN-ARTICLE CONSTITUTION
Altruism – sincerely looking after others before ourselves – is an ancient universal tenet of the human species which Prince Shotoku spent his life embodying.
Slap bang in the centre of this moment and in no place in particular, can you accept that there is nothing you have to do except be, and in your full being the flow flows without end?
This profound gratitude to all their descendants without whom they could not be alive today, is most moving. This is supreme Dharma, identical in the human world and the world of the spirits!
The Buddha made it clear that we should create and maintain bonds with the universe even though we have been born into human life. The Cathars also were constantly
As you may be able to imagine, following on from the last article on Bodhi and the aspiration for enlightenment, a Bodhisattva is someone who is working towards enlightenment, or