I have taken up the habit of using “enlightened life” interchangeably with a “noble life”. I think that the word

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Emptiness means the absence of permanence. Everything in life changes. In the words of Semisonic’s “Closing Time”: Every new beginning

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This is only the first week of reading “The Center Within” and this was a great chapter. I loved how

Continue readingAwareness, enlightenment, Gassho, life, and attachments. What a chapter!

The reading this week was pretty short, and most of the concepts can be effectively wrapped up in just a

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Freedom is the basic desire of man. Whether it be in politics, religion, or love, people want the joy that

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This week I started reading “Everyday Suchness” by Rev. Gyomay M. Kubose. Gyomay Kubose is the founder of Bright Dawn,

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This week’s reading was incredibly short since we just read the “Buddhism: The Path of Enlightenment” booklet and the “Buddhist

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This week we read all of Gyomay Kubose’s “American Buddhism: A New Direction“. It was touched on that it is

Continue readingMy review of “American Buddhism: A New Direction” by Gyomay Kubose