Wean Yourself from Wanting Things to Go Your Way. We depend on and are addicted to wanting things to go our way. When it doesn’t go our way, we get upset like a hungry infant wanting to be fed.… The Path of Suffering – Part Fourteen
We will crave privacy, a space of our own around which we can create a ring of fire or a moat. Ming Zhen Shakya Thank you, Em for this reminder to focus on… Singing and Building Our Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage PART FOUR
Welcome to Morning Sitting 2024!!!! Please mute yourself when entering. Topic: Morning Sitting Time: Jan 8, 2024 06:30 AM Central Time (US and Canada) Every day, until Jan 12, 2024, 5 occurrence(s) Jan 8, 2024… A Single Thread Morning Sitting Jan 8-12
A Mahayana Bodhisattva trusts without doubt. After building his new hut next to his temple, Shitou explains to himself and to us that trust is an essential aspect to his life. Sure, he has lived… Singing and Building Our Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage PART THREE
The old man illumines forms and their nature and knows that we share in the suffering of birth and death. Each one of us was born and each one of us will die. A Single… We All Suffer Birth & Death – A Buddhist Invitation
It is hard for us in the 21st century to image building a grass hut up in a far-off mountain range. A place we would call home! It is unthinkable. We love all our conveniences… Singing and Building Our Song of the Grass Roof Hermitage PART TWO