Tag Archives: Bodhisattva

Faith and enlightenment in Zen

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Tozen

All born things are subject to entropy. Nothing created can ever escape the critical point of its own decay and final dissolution.  This axiom is not only valid for all things around you and within your body,but also your ideas, … Continue reading →

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Know your true nature

Posted on July 3, 2016 by Tozen

  As an inexhaustible producer of form and emptiness, the great Mind Essence remains permanently  imageless. As long as certainty and the true nature of this Mind is not assured,  ignorance reigns, death is certain and the painful womb of rebirth,  into most uncertain … Continue reading →

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The light of compassion

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Tozen

A mind of great honor, moderation and intelligence is not necessarily a mind  of foolish shortsightedness, nor is it one poor in compassion and humor.  The immense complexity of the created,  demands such qualities. Yet, if these native excellences were to … Continue reading →

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Finding [recollecting] the Unborn Mind.

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Tozen

Abiding in the blinding darkness of ignorance is not easy. If anything, countless sentients, suffering on a daily basis no matter their status in a grinding maze of discontentment can attest to this fact. If not in their best hour, … Continue reading →

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Being of a Single Mind – One-pointedness (Zen) is attained

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Tozen

Let not the appearance of these words fool you,  yet do not wander off from the context at hand. Being One in Spirit (will) and of One Mind is to be of a Single Mind in a here and now … Continue reading →

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Emptiness on a Thursday Afternoon

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Vajragoni

Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtra 46. Mañjuśrī Teaches Prajñāpāramitā Translated from Taishō Tripiṭaka volume 11, number 310 Thus have I heard. At one time, the Buddha was in Śrāvastī, at the Jeta Grove, in Anāthapiṇḍada’s park, along with a great saṃgha of bhikṣus, … Continue reading →

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Valhalla for a Bodhisattva

Posted on September 7, 2014 by Vajragoni
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The inner-landscape changed dramatically for Schäfer as he found himself flying on a wind-mandala high above the majestic setting of a Tibetan cordillera. The mandala’s semi-circular shape seemed to curve in and out of the ever expanding vista until it … Continue reading →

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The Universal Gateway of the Bodhisattva Who Hears the Cries of the Poor

Posted on March 23, 2014 by Vajragoni
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Those reading this title from Chapter 25 from translations that don’t utilize the sanskrit might not realize this refers to non-other than our own beloved Avalokiteśvara. This entire chapter is in honor of the Greatest (in our own saha-realm) Bodhisattva … Continue reading →

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A Most Compassionate Light

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Vajragoni
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Thereupon, the Buddha Śākyamuni emitted a ray of light from his topknot (uṣṇīṣa), the mark of a great person, and also from the tuft of white hair between his eyebrows (ūrṇā), thus illuminating all the buddha worlds in the east … Continue reading →

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The Days of Hermits, Scoundrels, and a Dragon Princess

Posted on March 16, 2014 by Vajragoni
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Chapter 12 is the quintessential text in Buddhism conveying the all-encompassing ascendancy of Buddha-nature. It reveals that regardless of one’s moral stature, sexual identity, or karmic-predispositions, the potential-seed of Buddhahood is indigenous to all sentient beings. The “awakening” to one’s … Continue reading →

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