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Sparrow Knight
is on page 192 of 284
Currently reading the chapter ‘Bodily Reading of the Lotus Sutra’ and it’s interesting to contemplate treating a book as the body of a buddha. I’m also quite taken with ‘ichinen sanzen’, three thousand realms in a single thought moment. Enlightenment attained through complete devotion to a sutra makes for quite a contrast to being based on the three trainings.
— Oct 10, 2021 07:47PM
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Sparrow Knight
is on page 178 of 284
Much of this book is very academic, outside the practice, observing rather than engaging. While somewhat interesting, not particularly supportive of practice.
— Oct 08, 2021 09:24AM
Sparrow Knight
is on page 151 of 284
“William Graham observes that there is nothing about the formal appearance of holy scripture that preannounces a given text as ‘sacred’…no specific characteristic—written script, material composition, literary or phonetic form—accounts intrinsically for the ways in which particular texts are assigned the sort of privileged status…we might call ‘sacred’.” No, duh. Captain Obvious is a professor? LOL
— Sep 17, 2021 10:47AM
Sparrow Knight
is on page 107 of 284
Just finished the gender & hierarchy chapter, interesting historical contextual information.
So much of the original purpose of the Lotus has been fulfilled, and yet we still find practice guidance in it.
— Sep 13, 2021 07:26PM
So much of the original purpose of the Lotus has been fulfilled, and yet we still find practice guidance in it.
