Tag: Śrāvakas

• Your Existence is Infinite: Three Liberating Truths from the Lotus Sūtra

  

  We move through our days shadowed by the sense that time is running out, that the clock is always ticking toward an inevitable end. But what if this perception of a single, fleeting lifetime is a profound misunderstanding? An ancient passage from the Lotus Sūtra offers a radically liberating perspective on the true nature of…

  William Altig

  December 4, 2025

  Chapter 7, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

  Benefit Others, Bodhisattvas, Boundless Self, Buddha, Conception of Time, Delusion and Attachment, Interconnected Existence, Lotus Sūtra, No Fear of Extinction, Timeless Existence, Unhindered Wisdom, Śrāvakas

• The Sweet Dew of the Ultimate Path

  

  The Hearers walked a path of quiet rest,Believing Arhat status was the best. The Three Great Vehicles held separate ways,Defined by limits through the passing days.But in the Lotus, a new light definedThe single truth that binds all humankind. O, Bright-Lamp-of-Wisdom, shining true and deepYou wake the seeds that every being keeps.The paths before were Skillful…

  William Altig

  October 10, 2025

  Chapter 9, poems, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

  Amṛta, Arhatship, Doctrinal Completeness, Ekayāna, Lotus Sūtra, Mahāyāna Buddhism, One Vehicle, Prophecy of Buddhahood, Skillful Means, Spiritual Joy, Sweet Dew, Universal Potential, upāya, Vyākaraṇa, Śrāvakas