Tag: Buddha Nature
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One Buddhist Teaching That Redefines Your Daily Grind
Introduction: Bridging the Gap Between Work and Worth In our modern lives, it’s easy to feel a profound split between who we are and what we do. On one side, there is our inner world—the part of us that seeks peace, meaning, and personal growth. On the other, there is the daily grind of our…
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The Gospel of the Lotus Sutra: 4 Mind-Bending Truths from a Blues Interpretation
https://elevenreader.io/audiobooks/the-lotus-sutra-a-blues-interpretation/slSrCWjgSsIghTIuY4WH Listen now, because what you’re about to hear is a strange and beautiful song. It comes from an ancient Buddhist text, the Lotus Sutra, often called the “King of Sutras” in Asia. For 2,000 years, it has been a source of profound spiritual insight. But what happens when its classical verses are filtered through…
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Unlocking Potential: See the Buddha in Others
It is a deep and familiar frustration: trying to help someone who appears incompetent, lazy, or simply unwilling to change. But an ancient teaching offers a startling proposition: the obstacle to helping others isn’t their resistance, but the poverty of our own perception. See the Buddha, Not the Obstacles A profound teaching from the Buddha’s…
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Love Till Love’s the Only Sure
An old physician rolls into town with medicine that promises to cure any illness forever. But there’s a warning: “Many will hate this cure with jealousy.” Why? This 14-minute spiritual blues odyssey answers that question through the marriage of Buddhist philosophy and American roots music. It’s about three healers whose identities are threatened by ultimate…
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The Parable of the Grand Conservatory
In the heart of a bustling city stood the Grand Conservatory of Harmony, a school for musicians so legendary it was spoken of in whispers. Its halls were said to be built from the wood of ancient, singing trees, and its pianos carved from petrified starlight. The highest honor a student could achieve was the…
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The Perfection of Patience
A Poem When swords and sticks and stones arrive, And cruel words cut deep, The ancient Buddha taught a way For strength that we can keep. They call it Kṣānti—patience— But not the quiet kind, It’s not about just taking abuse Or being meek and blind. It’s “determined refusal to be beaten down,” A fire…
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When Patience Becomes Power: 5 Ancient Lessons for Handling Modern Life
In our modern lives, we’re taught to brace for the constant barrage of criticism, personal attacks, and overwhelming hardship. The struggle is mentally and emotionally exhausting, often leaving us feeling fragile and depleted. But what if there was a different way—a method for cultivating an inner strength so profound it could not be shaken by…
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The Buddha’s Eyes Blues
Buddha’s Eyes Blues is a slow-rolling, rootsy folk-blues meditation on the heart of Chapter Ten of the Lotus Sūtra. With warm finger-picked guitar, mournful slide, and harmonica sighs, it honors the sutra’s call to make offerings of devotion and daily action. Each verse carries the listener down a dusty road of incense smoke and open…
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Lotus Sūtra: Karma and Power
Date: August 27, 2025 Source: Excerpts from “Lotus Sūtra: Karma and Power” (various linked sources) I. Executive Summary This briefing document summarizes key themes from an analysis of Chapter Nineteen, “The Merits of the Teacher of the Dharma,” of the Lotus Sūtra. It highlights the Sūtra’s core message of universal enlightenment, emphasizing that Buddhahood is…
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Nichiren’s Interpretation of the Mutual Possession of Ten Realms in the Kanjin Honzon-Shō
Nichiren Buddhism, a significant school within the landscape of East Asian Buddhist thought, holds the Lotus Sutra in paramount esteem, considering it the ultimate and complete teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha.1 Among its core tenets is the doctrine of the “mutual possession of ten realms” (jikkai gogu), a concept that, while originating in the philosophical system…
Mr. Altig’s Overview of the Wonderful Dharma of the Lotus Sutra 