An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. – Buddha …

The biochemistry of the body is a product of awareness. – Deepak Chopra…

I teach that the multitudinousness of objects have no reality in themselves but are only seen of the mind and, therefore, are of the nature of maya and a dream. …It is true that in one sense they are seen and discriminated by the senses as individualized objects; but in another sense, because of the […]

The third kind of mind, ekohotsuganshin, which dedicates one’s merit towards birth in the Pure Land and so firmly resolves to be born there, is the mind with which one trusts that the accumulated merits of nembutsu recitation will infallibly be dedicated effectively towards his/her own birth in the Pure Land….

Spiritual Short Story The Library of God – A Zen Story It’s been some time since I wrote my last Spiritual Story, The Secrets of the Universe – A Zen Story, and my creative side is itching again to be expressed, so here is another zen tale to entertain and enlighten.  To find my other […]