The post discusses the underestimated significance of the three Buddhist refuges: Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha.
These aren’t merely traditional markers but pointers to reality. They elucidate that refuge in Buddha is mindful awareness, going beyond the body’s confines, potentially accessible to every human being.
Fun and laughter are also central to the story of Maitreya, the future Buddha, as taught in Mahayana literature.
Bhante Bodhidhamma’s talk begins with a short meditation then goes on to explore the nature of self as experience.
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Bronzes were arranged along the stairway, one of them being the Buddha-rupa which I have now.
Buddhist art: Some Buddha images.
Equalizing oneself and others means developing the attitude and understanding that: ‘Just as I desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering, so do all living beings, beings as infinite as space; they also desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.’
These loves, hates, frustrations etc, unpleasant as they seem, are the essential manure out of which the lotus of enlightenment grows and blossoms. And the bigger the clay, the bigger the Buddha, as the Zen men say, so the more and better the manure, the better for the flowering.
Buddhism now 