Tag: Challenge

• Shakubuku Heart: The Way of Lotus Fire

  

  Through the mist of provisional truths, The Lotus stands eternal, pure and bright. Like diamond cutting stone, the teaching soothes While challenging what dims the perfect light. To challenge falsehood with a steady hand, Yet hold compassion for the searching heart— This tension forms the practice, understand: To separate the teaching, not to part The…

  William Altig

  March 28, 2025

  poems

  Buddhism, Challenge, Compassion, Delusion, Enlightenment, Lotus Sutra, Metaphor, Nichiren Buddhism, Paradox, poetry, Refutation, Shakubuku, truth