the stupa opens tomorrow, and so does another new year. how fortuitous to round the same spiraling route from a few months ago, to now on maitreya’s birthday, studying yogacara, bowing to our root teacher, with the sun, star and moon teaching me, illuminating the path through darkness to the brightness and tranquility of trueContinue reading “new year”
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the practice vs. the divine
reading about the Therigatha vs. Augustine’s confessions really struck me how the more masculine and Christian method was to seek a divine beyond oneself to look within, while the enlightened nuns sought their inner (re)source for wisdom and purification and did not attach to a sense of self except for narrative purposes. we have beenContinue reading “the practice vs. the divine”
Recovering hand 🖐 + heart ❤️
Gotta write about how this year I nearly lost function of both my right hand and heart, it feels like a major lesson with implications reverberating for years to come…an initiation and crashing through questions of…can you bear a life and death with these in disability and failure? If I receive these functions back inContinue reading “Recovering hand 🖐 + heart ❤️“
heart diagnosis
As 2019 wraps up, reflections bring me back to the beginning of the year…perhaps the most poignant thing is how heart congestion problems have been surfacing as I clarify my xin. In January, I began to have heart challenges after drinking gailizi water for my consecutive challenges, compounded with lacking health insurance and citizenship. ThenContinue reading “heart diagnosis”
上求佛道，下化眾生
reflection from 預修班，led by Master Moon 月師父 I believe this short phrase “seeking the highest Buddha path, sharing the illumination with fellow sentient beings” illustrates the ontology and teleology of the Bodhisattva path. I think this is about the proper path and practice of kinship in all worlds and times. Practicing kinship means cultivating relationalityContinue reading “上求佛道，下化眾生”
Coming soon
@Amanda thank you for always pushing me to think better about spiritual and material debts for my economics of karma development. And of course just affirming my taurus ♉️ ain’t just hedonism. Following stories to come after finishing the kneeling and IKAM with @Maria José ◦ Noodle propitiation ◦ Potato chips repentance//temple training of stuffContinue reading “Coming soon”
摩訶般若波羅蜜
In Northern school we learn through the sastras, the incredible words, and in Tang Dynasty Mahāprajñāpāramitā Sutra was translated by Great Venerable XuanZhang. This sutra is attributed to Nāgārjuna, who went to the depths of the sea and learned the protected 🔐 teachings in 🐉 lairs. Low 🔑 love how he got to such masteryContinue reading “摩訶般若波羅蜜”
a few ways we practice
decolonize + reindigenize + enhance malas
Malas gifts from monk shifus who receive these from the ten directions Sending these over ocean 🌊 liner to friends in this darkening winter season. I would like to incorporate more attention into learning the materials and woods and seeds and such precious stones. I desire knowing where they come from and were they takenContinue reading “decolonize + reindigenize + enhance malas”
