Jizo statue at Japanese Temple. Ten years ago, I asked H.H. Dorje Chang Buddha III about what I should do to help a student who had just miscarried a baby. He very compassionately gave me the advice that is conveyed in...
Photo of Jizo Painting by Giselle Potter The following article by Angela Elson is from The New York Times, January 5, 2017. When we lived in Japan, my husband took me on a date to a cemetery. In his defense, it was a...
Ven. Lodru Rinpoche. At our ZOOM class today, we discussed the bardo and I mentioned this article, so I am reposting it FYI. In April 2023 I attended an on-line teaching on Five Element Calm-Abiding Practice and Five...
Summer Squash-Korean Radish-Cucumber Muchim. This is considered a dressed or seasoned salad (muchim) in Korean and can be made with different vegetables or fruit. The one shown here is composed of smashed Persian...
We finished Lesson 13 with our study of the “Ten Illusory Things” and what they can teach us about emptiness as well as “The Eighteen Kinds of Emptiness”. The Buddha Master provided a detailed...
Vietnamese Corn Milk. I enjoyed this drink when I first visited Hanoi in 2010 and loved it. The recipes I found all added sweetened condensed milk, which would probably be delicious, but I prefer just the subtle...
We continued discussing Lesson 13 of the text of DCB22-Expounding the Absolute Truth through the Heart Sutra: “PART TWO-I “. . . saw that they (the five aggregates) were all empty. . .” at our July 20, 2024 ZOOM session...
Eihei Dogen watching the moon at the Hokyo-ji Monastery, Japan, ca 1250. The Sansui Kyo, sometimes referred to as the Mountains and Waters Sutra is a short essay by the 13th century Zen Master Eihei Dogen (1200-1253)...
A mirage of water on a road. In a recent class on the passage “. . . illuminated the five aggregates, saw that they are all empty. . .” from Expounding the Absolute Truth from the Heart Sutra, we engaged in...