Tag: Ancient Buddhist Wisdom
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A 2,000-Year-Old Teaching That Reframes Your Suffering as a Sacred Mission

It’s a heavy time to be alive. The endless scroll of crises, the psychic weight of global conflict, the quiet helplessness that settles in when the world feels broken—it can all become too much. This feeling can lead to a deep yearning for escape, a sense that life is not a choice we made but…
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Chapter 12–Devadatta and the Ocean Princess

The Lord then spoke to the entire assembly of Bodhisattvas, including gods and demons, saying: Long ago, monks, in previous ages, I tirelessly and without rest sought the Sūtra of the Lotus of the True Law for countless and immeasurable eons. Many eons ago, I was a king for thousands of eons. Once I firmly…