Tag: Buddhist Ethics

• 5 Surprising Lessons from an Ancient Bodhisattva on How to Face an Overwhelming World

  

  It is a deeply familiar weight in our modern age: we are confronted daily with a seemingly endless tide of global problems, and in the face of such overwhelming need, we feel crushingly inadequate. We look at the scale of what is necessary and, as one ancient text observes, come to “believe that we are…

  William Altig

  October 16, 2025

  Chapter 25, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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• The Immeasurable Merits of Hearing and Transmitting the Lotus Sutra: An Analysis of Chapter Eighteen

  

  The Lotus Sutra stands as a cornerstone of Mahayana Buddhism, celebrated for its profound teachings on the universality of Buddhahood and the paramount importance of propagating the Dharma 1. Within this revered text, Chapter Eighteen, entitled “Rejoicing in Accord with Merit and Virtue,” occupies a significant position by elucidating the extraordinary rewards associated with engaging…

  William Altig

  April 3, 2025

  Chapter 18

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• Chapter 13–The Resolve of the Magical Bodhisattvas

  

  Thereafter the Lord looked towards the eighty hundred thousand Bodhisattvas who were gifted with magical spells and capable of moving forward the wheel that never rolls back. No sooner were those Bodhisattvas regarded by the Lord than they rose from their seats, raised their joined hands towards the Lord, and reflected thus: “The Lord invites…

  William Altig

  December 26, 2023

  Chapter 13, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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