Tag: Reading the Sutra with the Body

• The Parable of the Physician’s Ultimate Prescription

  

  In a city plagued by chronic illness, there lived a wise Physician whose knowledge contained “the store of the hidden core of all the Buddhas”. This Physician possessed a single, ultimate Prescription that promised a cure for all suffering and revealed that the inherent nature of every resident was perfect health—a supreme state of “boundless…

  William Altig

  October 15, 2025

  Chapter 10, Parables, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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