Thrice Yearning Ceremony After We Become a Buddha
Not Even By a Buddha Attachments
DANCE path to peace
An Opportunity Good Fortune
All Beings Have Been Our Parents Nature's Way
Forty-nine Days My Best Friend
My Choice Paying Attention Works
Transforming Grief and Loss Golden Rule
Pay Attention, Do Good Conscience and Courage
Nonviolence in Daily Life Choose Wisely
To Let Go Consciousness
Opportunities to Grow Find the Right Time
Equanimity Conscience and Courage, and Causality
Positive Influence Pain and Suffering, Part 1
Useful Word Patience
Compassion with Wisdom Thinking Makes It So
Better Than Uncontrolled Is Buddhism a Religion?
Guilt and Regret They Do Work
Pain and Suffering, Part 2 Childhood
Perspective of the Grief & Healing Process Gone in an Instant
Rebirth? No Rebirth? Transformation Takes Time
Disorganization and Reorganization, Part 2 Disorganization and Reorganization, Part 1
Doer of Good Greed, Fear, Anger, Retaliation
Gratitude Causes of Anger
Speech Karma Members of Society
Courtesy Nothing Exists on Its Own
Purity Truth of Interdependence
Impermanence and Relativity By Oneself
Easy to Anger He Who Craves Not
Affinities and Enmities Excellence
Easing the Fears of Others Love
Kindness Remembered and Forgotten Trustworthiness
Kindness Never Alone
Chanting as Meditation Go Veggie and Reduce Global Warming
Thankfulness The Good and Virtuous
Knowing But Not Fully understanding No Perfection Here in Samsara
To Teach Others How Long Should I Chant?
To End Suffering Spotting Causality
Desire Human Potential
The Habit of Doubt Humility
Go Veggie and Help Others Go Veggie and Help Yourself
Four Great Vows of Bodhisattvas, First Vow Four Great Vows of Bodhisattvas, Second Vow
Four Great Vows of Bodhisattvas, Third Vow Four Great Vows of Bodhisattvas, Fourth Vow
Giver or Receiver Don't Wait
Karmic Chain Reaction One Method or Do It Yourself
Patience I'm New: Where Do I Start?
Thoughts from Patriarch Yin Guang Small Stone
Suffering and Joy Sticking with One Method
Meat Means Misery for the World's Hungry Four Assurances, Second of Four
Four Assurances, First of Four Forgiveness
Four Assurances One-hundred Percent Seeing True Nature Nonviolence
Like a Hot Coal Four Assurances, Fourth of Four
Four Assurance, Third of Four To Help Others
Unity Good Fortune in Disguise
Forget the Labels Disengaged from Realty
True Nature Anger or Clarity?
Far to the West or Deep within Me? Holding On to a Breath
An Aspiration Emotions that Create Trouble
Loving Wisely Peace and Unity
A Peaceful, Stable World Our True Work
Rising and Falling Through Samsara Loyalty
Pure Land Monastics, Part 2 Appearing and Disappearing
Pure Land Monastics, Part 1 May War Surrender to Peace
Joyfulness Have We Really Understood?
Pure Land Monastics, Part 3 Deserving of Love
Concentration or Meditation? Dharmakara's Aspiration
The Monk Dharmakara Pure Land Monastics, Part 4
The Nature of Our World Yes, It Does
Light and Guidance We Are One
Where was Choice? Service
Honor and Respect the Religions of Others Continuous Cycle of Causality
Giving Happiness and Security Good Men and Bad Men
The Cause Moderation
Circle of Compassion An Eye for an Eye
What is Affinity? Bodhisattvas Fear Causes, We Fear Results
No Good Deed Vigilance
Embrace Obstacles The Four Integrative Methods
Practice, Practice, Practice What are Attachments
Struggling to Not Harm Two Criteria for Right Livelihood
Going Forward in Difficult Times Water and Oil
What are Discriminatory Thoughts Truly Mindful in Chanting
What are Wandering Thoughts Afflictions
Lamp of a Buddha All is Vanity
Choose Habits Carefully The Giving of Teaching
Free from Worries and Fears Master Dixian's Student
Purify the Mind As High as a Mountain
Saner Way of Reacting Helping Spontaneously
Selflessness Let Go and Return
To Change Now Shine!
World Free of Conflict Three Ways to Change
The Prodigal Who Returns Home Pure Land Beginnings
Increasing Our Confidence Why Do You Use a Swastika?
Two More Days to Mount Wu-T'ai No More Time to Waste Good Spiritual Friend Can I Help?
Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Not From Suffering to Compassion
Finding Time Harrison
Life is Like a Soap Opera Just Be Good
Chant for Me I'll pass on that Portion of Blame, Thank You
How to Make Eggplant Can You Shit it a Bit to the Left?
Healing Herbs Through the Eyes of a Buddha-to-be
Gossip On Gossiping
Wandering or Proper? Peace and Quiet, Literally
True (Eyes of the Beholder) Obstructions Everywhere
With Ego There is Selfishness On Work Ethics
Imbued with Good Will I Couldn't Have Been That Bad, Could I?
Start From the Root Heart and Mind Together
Two to Start a Quarrel Nurture Affinities and Resolve Enmities
The Himalayan Parrot Eyes of a Stranger
Right Livelihood Free of Vexations
How Should We Practice Nianfo? Right Teaching at the Right Time
Two Kinds of Karmic Retribution Where does Suffering Come From?
Don't Worry About Being Taken Advantage Of In His Dreams
Never Make an Enemy Nice Intentions, But no Durian, Thank You
Recognition or Respect? It's too Noisy Here!
Er, Let's See, Where Were We? The Window
Obstacles in Our Path Like a Buddha
Eliminated, Not Just Suppressed A Rose by Any Other Name is a Orange
Karmic Opportunities Releasing the Cows
Reacting Wisely to External Stimuli Like a Dream, Like a Bubble
Because I'm Here When Spoken Ill Of
The Wars Within On Habitual Patterns
The Tranquil, Constantly Observant Mind Non-attachment in Meditative Concentration
Please Listen Very Carefully Buddhas in Disguise
Praise Others' Goodness and Forget Their Faults Precepts Transcend Time and Space
Compassion Can Cause No Pain Changes Come and Go by Themselves
Turn Afflictions to Bodhi Why Do We Study the Amitabha Sutra?
Releasing Animals Let the Buddha's Name Flow
Reborn as a Fox Prayer for Peace
Seeking or According with Situations and People: A Follow-up Neither too Kind Nor too Harsh
Seeking or According with Situations and People The Elephant and His Old Blind Mother
Healing Anger It's Comfortable but It's Still a Prison
A Buddhist Perspective on Euthanasia Teaching Buddhism
Angry Buddha The Karma of Thought
Less is More Good Luck or Bad Luck?
Why We Find it So Hard to be Reborn in the Pure Land Duality and Discrimination in All We See
Repentance Practice Conserving Our Good Fortune
Fear in Our Lives Beings in the Pure Land
Karma is a Natural Law I'm Sorry, Part 1
Every Word We Think is Important What Price Progress
All Beings Live Together in the Western Pure Land Nurturing Feelings of Worth
What to Chant When a Pure Land Buddhist is Dying The Metta Sutra
Wish to be Happy? Give Daily I'm Sorry, Part 2
Four Immeasurable Minds: Compassion Four Immeasurable Minds: Loving-Kindness
The Light of a Buddha The Eight Sufferings, Part 2
The Eight Sufferings, Part 1 Carbon Crisis
Symbols in Buddhism Chanting "Amituofo" in Pure Land Practice
Four Immeasurable Minds: Equanimity Four Immeasurable Minds: Joy
Giving from Our True Nature Dedication for the Ill and Deceased
A Choice I Make Every Day It Takes Us Many Times to "Get It" Practice on the Meditation Cushion and Throughout the Day Strength of the Spirit
A Perfect Practice of the Buddhadharma In the Face of Violence
Relinquish Attachment and Discrimination Mind of Compassion Life's Daily Annoyances and Frustrations We Do Not Know
Nothing Brilliance: Just some Contended Musings We Need to Go Further
An Image of Amitabha for Someone Who is Dying Do Not Waste the Opportunity
Ego and Practice Above All Worry and Care
Chanting Becomes a Habit True or Idle Gossip?
Thanksgiving A Buddhist Perspective on Animal Rights
A Change of Heart When is Chanting Effective?
Trying to Meet Non-material Needs by Material Means Earl Grey or Dragon Pearl Jasmine?
The Four Immeasurables Practice in the Face of Laziness
A Public Opinion Poll Missing the Chance to Know the Truth
Rebirth in Every Moment Cinderella Returns
First to Last: Chanting "Amituofo" Seeing with Real Insight
A Matter of Conscience The Thought of "No Thought"
Five Ways for the Bereaved to Survive the Holidays Beyond the Horizon
How Are We Ever Going to Change Anything? The Story of Stuff
It's All About Me Finding Our Path
How Siddhartha Could Leave Yasodhara A Parable: Birth and Death
I Object to Violence Occupation: Monastic, Part 1
A Christmas Carol Social Anxiety
Is the Pure Land Real? Black-nosed Buddha
Not Waves or Surf, But Water Think "Kaleidoscope"
Everything will Come Back to Us and More There is Nothing to Seek
Occupation: Monastic, Part 2 Rules - Who Needs Them!
Namo Guan Shi Yin Pusa She Who Hears the Cries of the World
Either Way - It's Us Freeing Ourselves from This Prison
First in Fear? Taking Refuge
My Repayment The Monastic Path: Early Days
As a Diamond Grinds Giving
Sacrifice? Tree of Humanity
Hard for All Beings to Believe No Attachment to Dust
No Different from One Another Happiness in, Then out
Two Tribes or One? Turn Away from Both Winning and Losing
Mindfulness of the Buddha True Benefit, Part 2
"On Hallowing One's Diminishments" True Benefit, Part 1
To Touch Our Wisdom Only Changing Postures
Caught Again...and Again... The Solution to Our Unhappiness
Let It Flow Into Your Heart As if Struck by Two Darts
I Didn't Mean It No Way to "Jimmy the Machine"
You Have to be Brave to Take Me Out to Lunch My Resolve is Firmly Fixed
Don't Look at Others Wish Flowers
How Do I Begin a Daily Pure Land Practice? Simile of the Saw
Our Test of Courage Letting it Go
All We Truly Know Is That We Truly Know Very Little Peak Oil, Peak Coal, and Beyond
Essentials for Reading the Sutras The Miniature Earth
How to Change a Flat Tire Maintaining the Calm, Clear Mind
Benefiting Self, Others, and All Fundamental Flaw
Fueling the Fire of Hatred The Best Medicine?
Harming those We Love Sounds a Lot like Christianity
His Father's Last Words Free from Hostility
Three Jewels Hearing Its Own Sound
Making the Situation Worse Renting instead of Owning
Our Grief is Our Own Killing to Save
Do the Right Thing Waiting to be Rescued
Non-attachment, not Detachment In a Flash
Even After Death Appearances can be Deceiving
Instructions for Cultivating the Pure Land Dharma Gateway Why does it Happen?
Picking Olives A Heart's Burden
The True Cost of Technology How do I Turn This Thing Off?
How do We Hold On? The Meaning of Amitabha Buddha
How Bodhisattvas and Good Teachers Help Us My Responsibility
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Part 4 Take a Deep Breath and Blink
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, part 3 True Confessions
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Part 2 Organ Donation
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Part 1 Possessor or Possessed?
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Epilogue Protecting and Keeping in Mind
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Part 8 What Can One Person Do?
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Part 7 Everything is Perfect?
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, part 6 The Paradox of Our Age
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Part 5 Not Yet Ready to Save the World
Repaying Debts or Being Taken Advantage Of Need a Forest, a River, or a Brook
Past Karmas are the Cause Going Up? Mother and Child Is it Really Unfair? Neither Judge, Jury, nor Executioner Harmony Within and Without
And it Made Me Cry Impermanence
Kindergarten Ethics Why did the Buddha Hesitate?
Not Yet Time to Appear Sunflowers in April
When Can We Be Helped? Bodhisattvas Fear Causes
So Where is My Garden? Ninety-nine Faults
Licenses Expiring and Conditions Maturing What is Renunciation?
Every Thought is a Karma Shouldn't, Wouldn't
Forgive and Forget When Can We Stop?
It's Habits A Field of Good Fortune
To Deal With It Doing It Again
The Only Really Good Stuff is at the Store Timing is Everything
Confessions of a Budding Locavore Hatred is a Poison
Different Situations, Different Methods You Just Never Know
Watch What You Say The Toothache
We Are All Human Storing and Packing and Storing! Oh, My!
Perhaps an Age of True Peace Good Conditions
What Does the Average American See 20000 Times a Year? Is it Because...?
The Story of Vakula The Story of Gavampati
The Story of Suddhipanthaka Won't You Be My Neighbor?
It Happened Last Friday Night Ok, I Shouldn't Have
Turn It Off It's My Karma
Silence is Golden (And Less Troublesome!) Difficult Practice Conditions
I'm Only a Child Thoughts from a patriarch
Calm Before the Storm White
The Story of Pindola-bharadvaja The Story of Maitreya
Convenience is a Dangerous Thing Better Than TV - The Equine Perspective
But That's Not What I Said Oil Addiction
Difference Between Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Find the Way
Don't Just Read About it, Do it Choices That Will Haunt Us for a Lifetime
One Who Has Enough Then When?
Being Careful of What We Advise I'm Fine, Thank you
Self-spoken When the Time Was Right No Expectations, No Disappointments
40 Steps on the Personal Path to Green So Where Was the Happiness?
Surely It's Too Small to Matter! Laziness and a Nap, a Book, and the Sky
Good Roots, Good Fortune, and Favorable Conditions Does the Language Matter?
Where's the Excitement? The Mind and Heart Disconnect
Constant Mindfulness of Amitabha Buddha Should We Just Put Up With It?
When Our Karma Comes to Grab Us Completely Letting Go
Life in Samsara The Ocean Liner Destiny
For the Sake of the Children But I'm Justified!
Oops! That Is Not What I Meant! Shoot Me First
But How Can We Tell? You Just Never Know
Living in Our New World, Part 4 Financial Collapse The Best Learning Environment
Living in Our New World Part 3: Peak Oil How Does One Adjust One's Mindset?
Living in Our New World Part 2: Sleeping Beauty and Fairy Godmother Some Things are Meant to Be
Living in Our New World Part 1: Time for a New Normal Achieving in Pure Land Practice, Part 2
Living in Our New World Part 9: To Do Right Achieving in Pure Land Practice, Part 1
Living in Our New World Part 8: Making Preparations The First Turn is the Hardest
Living in Our New World Part 7: Becoming a Fairy Godmother The Health Effects of Losing One's Temper
Living in Our New World Part 6: Back Down the Ladder Infinite Life Sutra Excerpt
living in Our New World Part 5: Food Don't Judge, Be Quiet, Observe
Love It's All About Choice
How Could He and Why Can't Others? Pay Attention, Do Good
The Fish and the Turtle Smiling for Peace
Practical Practice Always Changing
No Expectations A Heart Cannot Cry
Thoughts Can It Get Worse?
Remember to Remember The Luck of the Caregiver
The Right Thing As Natural as Breathing
"Buddhist Nun!" Weeding Our Garden
In the Nick of Time More Stubborn than the Proverbial Mule
Simple, But Not Easy Nothing Exists on its Own
When the Mind is Pure Wow! Where Did That Come From? Amituofo, Amituofo, Amituofo The Time Was Right
Love (Flash Movie) I Have to Change
Worst Enemy, Best Friend Good Dharmas
Revelations My Fear, My Shame, My Choice
To Respect All Buddhas We Need to Show Before We Can Receive
One Should Untempted and Undisturbed
It's the Connection, Not the Language A Matter of Perspective
Politics and Attachments Source of Happiness
Heavy Load, No Load One Hundred Percent
Moment of Darkness Snowed under in Australia
Only Four Shopping Days till Christmas! Only One?
The Vegan Question Finding Our Perfect Puzzle
Our True Nature 10 Ways to be Happy
Anger and Clarity Protons, Neutrons, and Quarks
In the Eye of the Beholder Linear or Cyclic?
Reaping What We Sow Souls Separated by Phantoms
Think of Them as Distractions Who Will Foot the Bill?
Resting on One's Laurels is Hazardous to One's Happiness Simple Wisdom
The Illusory Mind or the Enlightened Mind Making the Choice Every Day
What's the Urgency? I Have Some Questions!
The Secure Way to Cultivate New Age or the Old Way
A Joy and a Haven A Prayer
Fleeting Pleasures A Perfect Tapestry
This is Selflessness The Interfaith Summit
Gossiping Eyes of a Buddha-to-be
Be Good The Unfaltering Vow
And Tomorrow? I Wish You Enough
Lest We Blame Others But I Deserve It!
Personal Responsibility Living Will
I Can't do Everything, But I Can Do Something Like the Lingering Scent of Wine
The Merest Simmer of Thought Wisdom from the Master
On What to Rely Comfort Levels in Cultivation
Where Can a Baby Get a Birth Certificate and Hunting License in the Same Year? Wisdom from the Master
Here Sweetie, Have a Gun for Your Fifth Birthday Mrs. Black-whiskers Grey
A Clean Kill? Do Cows Cry?
Belief and Vow Who'd Have Thought
I Know What I am Doing, It's the Other Person Who Doesn't Two Brothers and One Umbrella
Ways I Have Change Since Becoming a Pure Land Buddhist Exclusive Pursuit
Where's the Value in the Suffering? The Ultimate Activist
Pieter's Misunderstanding Chicken a la Carte
How Atifeh Helped Her Parents Up the Mountain
Why Crows Only Say "Caw!, Caw!" The Pure Mind, The Still Mind
Cultivating Wisdom and Good Fortune While in the Pure Land Mr. Joseph's Special Chest
Mindfulness? or Concentration? Our Glass of Muddy Water
"Long-lost Friends" Things are Often Not What They Seem
Letting Go of Anger Happiness
Uncle Alexander Another Chance
What Can Buddhists Do When a Beloved Animal Friend Dies? Buddha as Mind
Intoxicated by Desire Four Lands in the Pure Land
Haste Makes Wastes, Just Ask Rufus Rebirth in the Pure Land
Expectations or Aspirations? A Missed Opportunity
Walking a Fine Line Vote for Happiness
I'm Not Arrogant, I'm Right! Someone is Watching
A State of Mindlessness The True Nature of "I Am"
Found: Piece of Cheese, Owner Unclear Meatless Monday
A Heart as big as an Elephant Not Your Usual Asagee
The State of Mindlessness (Continue) The Mind Like Clear and Placid Water
Not Your Usual Fish Dinner Rushing Headlong to Discrimination
Old Friends New Friends Sincerity is...
Effective Buddha-name Chanting Method True Confessions
Only We Can Do It The Meaning of Amitabha Buddha
Pure and Unfettered Harry's Note
Planting and Reaping Critical Moment
No Longer Vexed Like Looking Through a Gauze Curtain
The Mind Like a Soiled Sponge or a Clear Mirror Ethel and Her Eggs
At Peace With Ourselves May We Learn from the Animals
The Power of Trust Homemaker Bodhisattva
Real Buddhists Sit in Meditation. Right? Twill Grows Up
Mistaking a Thief for a Son Giving Up Our Addictions
The Princess and Her Two Gifts At Least for a Moment
The Big Bright Electric-blue Plastic Basket Was that a Thought or a Worry?
Thoughts on a Peaceful Day Benefits of Practicing the Six Paramitas
Being Attached to Set Forms of Practice A Truly Good Person
Sounds Like Christianity to Me For Those Who Are Wondering...
Affliction or Appreciation Gossip or Criticism
Taking it for Granted Living in a Grateful World 4
Living in a Grateful World 3 Living in a Grateful World 2
Living in a Grateful World 1 Trouble with Talking
Klissa's Moment of True Living in a Grateful World - To Me
Living in a Grateful World - In Prison Living in a Grateful World 6
Living a in Grateful World 5 More Facebook...
The True Benefits of Learning Chanting Amituofo - Great Good Fortune
Well That was Frustrating - Thank you Non-attachment, Not Detachment
I Resolve Tahdah!!!
Genus: Lonicera. Species: Amituofo No Disrespect Intended, But...
How to Make Eggplant We Don't Mean To
Excuse Me, Your Name is? To Change Our Life
As Comprehending as Children Thoughts on Purity of Mind
Curbing Bad Language Isn't it Enough to be Bodhisattva?
Yoo Hoooo Debbie! A Heart's Burden
Thoughts on Sincerity You're Very Welcome
Taking a Ship to the Other Shore What Would You Think if...
Life and the Living of it How Do I Use a Nianju or Mala Properly?
Affected by Others' Suffering Compassion Tempered With Wisdom
One Step at a Time A Hot Coal
Expectations of Aspirations Excerpts from Buddhist Sutras
Buddhist Sutra Excerpts Thoughts on Stillness of Mind
How Many Holes I Have to Dip Before I Hit Water Tiny Beacon of Life
Bodhisattvas Fear Causes, Sentient Beings Fear Effects Too Small to Matter?
Thoughts from Great Master Yin Guang on Cause and Effect Affinity Has No Boundaries, Love No Discrimination
Joe's all-American Pure Land Temple, reiki Studio, Juice Bar and Veggie Burger Emporium Lundeeria: Chapter 4
Plants are Living Beings Too Lundeeria: Chapter 3
Lundeeria: Chater 2 Lundeeria: Chater 1
Courageous Compassion Lundeeria: Chater 7
Lundeeria: Chater 6 Lundeeria: Chapter 5
A Buddha-name Chanting Practitioner Must Fulfill One's Responsibilities The Death of Someone We Love is like a Coin
How Can I Stop Being Angry at Myself With All the Terrible Things I Have Done? We Need Permissions???
Can I Read Other Sutras to Compliment on My Study of the Pure Land Sutras? Do You Pray to a Deity Like Theists Do?
From a Reader: Observation, Folks are Funny The Cause of Mental Suffering
How Do I Not Let My Ego be so Sensitive? Why Would I Want Non-existence?
What are the Karmic Consequences of a Person Who is Dirty and Untidy?
Buddha-name Chanting Practitioners Should Dedicate Merits From Chanting to the Pure Land
How Can I Stop My Depressing Thoughts? Peace and Harmony Faith, Vow, and Practice Plum Flower Deer
Ending Conflict Through Forgiveness Heart of the Teachings
Tarnished Reputation Persis: A Tale of Persistence
Great Master Yin Guan on Taking of the Three Refuges I Dare You Not to Smile!
Others Do Evil, Not Me Is True Relative or Subjective?
How Can I Introduce Buddhism to Others? Letting Go is Gaining
Thoughts on Hearing of Terrible Events How Do We Change Social Policy?
Do We Have Free Will? Like Mother, Like Daughter (Oops)
When Thoughts Intrude Buddhism and Education
Why Am I Grieving So Much Over the Death of My Dog or Cat? What Are Good Roots?
path to peace I Understand and Appreciate... But...
Do We Come Back from The Pure Land to Help Others? The Doors of My Heart
I'm Finished! Sometime It Doesn't Matter
What Do I Do? It's Not Fair
Not Even By a Buddha Attachments
DANCE path to peace
An Opportunity Good Fortune
All Beings Have Been Our Parents Nature's Way
Forty-nine Days My Best Friend
My Choice Paying Attention Works
Transforming Grief and Loss Golden Rule
Pay Attention, Do Good Conscience and Courage
Nonviolence in Daily Life Choose Wisely
To Let Go Consciousness
Opportunities to Grow Find the Right Time
Equanimity Conscience and Courage, and Causality
Positive Influence Pain and Suffering, Part 1
Useful Word Patience
Compassion with Wisdom Thinking Makes It So
Better Than Uncontrolled Is Buddhism a Religion?
Guilt and Regret They Do Work
Pain and Suffering, Part 2 Childhood
Perspective of the Grief & Healing Process Gone in an Instant
Rebirth? No Rebirth? Transformation Takes Time
Disorganization and Reorganization, Part 2 Disorganization and Reorganization, Part 1
Doer of Good Greed, Fear, Anger, Retaliation
Gratitude Causes of Anger
Speech Karma Members of Society
Courtesy Nothing Exists on Its Own
Purity Truth of Interdependence
Impermanence and Relativity By Oneself
Easy to Anger He Who Craves Not
Affinities and Enmities Excellence
Easing the Fears of Others Love
Kindness Remembered and Forgotten Trustworthiness
Kindness Never Alone
Chanting as Meditation Go Veggie and Reduce Global Warming
Thankfulness The Good and Virtuous
Knowing But Not Fully understanding No Perfection Here in Samsara
To Teach Others How Long Should I Chant?
To End Suffering Spotting Causality
Desire Human Potential
The Habit of Doubt Humility
Go Veggie and Help Others Go Veggie and Help Yourself
Four Great Vows of Bodhisattvas, First Vow Four Great Vows of Bodhisattvas, Second Vow
Four Great Vows of Bodhisattvas, Third Vow Four Great Vows of Bodhisattvas, Fourth Vow
Giver or Receiver Don't Wait
Karmic Chain Reaction One Method or Do It Yourself
Patience I'm New: Where Do I Start?
Thoughts from Patriarch Yin Guang Small Stone
Suffering and Joy Sticking with One Method
Meat Means Misery for the World's Hungry Four Assurances, Second of Four
Four Assurances, First of Four Forgiveness
Four Assurances One-hundred Percent Seeing True Nature Nonviolence
Like a Hot Coal Four Assurances, Fourth of Four
Four Assurance, Third of Four To Help Others
Unity Good Fortune in Disguise
Forget the Labels Disengaged from Realty
True Nature Anger or Clarity?
Far to the West or Deep within Me? Holding On to a Breath
An Aspiration Emotions that Create Trouble
Loving Wisely Peace and Unity
A Peaceful, Stable World Our True Work
Rising and Falling Through Samsara Loyalty
Pure Land Monastics, Part 2 Appearing and Disappearing
Pure Land Monastics, Part 1 May War Surrender to Peace
Joyfulness Have We Really Understood?
Pure Land Monastics, Part 3 Deserving of Love
Concentration or Meditation? Dharmakara's Aspiration
The Monk Dharmakara Pure Land Monastics, Part 4
The Nature of Our World Yes, It Does
Light and Guidance We Are One
Where was Choice? Service
Honor and Respect the Religions of Others Continuous Cycle of Causality
Giving Happiness and Security Good Men and Bad Men
The Cause Moderation
Circle of Compassion An Eye for an Eye
What is Affinity? Bodhisattvas Fear Causes, We Fear Results
No Good Deed Vigilance
Embrace Obstacles The Four Integrative Methods
Practice, Practice, Practice What are Attachments
Struggling to Not Harm Two Criteria for Right Livelihood
Going Forward in Difficult Times Water and Oil
What are Discriminatory Thoughts Truly Mindful in Chanting
What are Wandering Thoughts Afflictions
Lamp of a Buddha All is Vanity
Choose Habits Carefully The Giving of Teaching
Free from Worries and Fears Master Dixian's Student
Purify the Mind As High as a Mountain
Saner Way of Reacting Helping Spontaneously
Selflessness Let Go and Return
To Change Now Shine!
World Free of Conflict Three Ways to Change
The Prodigal Who Returns Home Pure Land Beginnings
Increasing Our Confidence Why Do You Use a Swastika?
Two More Days to Mount Wu-T'ai No More Time to Waste Good Spiritual Friend Can I Help?
Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is Not From Suffering to Compassion
Finding Time Harrison
Life is Like a Soap Opera Just Be Good
Chant for Me I'll pass on that Portion of Blame, Thank You
How to Make Eggplant Can You Shit it a Bit to the Left?
Healing Herbs Through the Eyes of a Buddha-to-be
Gossip On Gossiping
Wandering or Proper? Peace and Quiet, Literally
True (Eyes of the Beholder) Obstructions Everywhere
With Ego There is Selfishness On Work Ethics
Imbued with Good Will I Couldn't Have Been That Bad, Could I?
Start From the Root Heart and Mind Together
Two to Start a Quarrel Nurture Affinities and Resolve Enmities
The Himalayan Parrot Eyes of a Stranger
Right Livelihood Free of Vexations
How Should We Practice Nianfo? Right Teaching at the Right Time
Two Kinds of Karmic Retribution Where does Suffering Come From?
Don't Worry About Being Taken Advantage Of In His Dreams
Never Make an Enemy Nice Intentions, But no Durian, Thank You
Recognition or Respect? It's too Noisy Here!
Er, Let's See, Where Were We? The Window
Obstacles in Our Path Like a Buddha
Eliminated, Not Just Suppressed A Rose by Any Other Name is a Orange
Karmic Opportunities Releasing the Cows
Reacting Wisely to External Stimuli Like a Dream, Like a Bubble
Because I'm Here When Spoken Ill Of
The Wars Within On Habitual Patterns
The Tranquil, Constantly Observant Mind Non-attachment in Meditative Concentration
Please Listen Very Carefully Buddhas in Disguise
Praise Others' Goodness and Forget Their Faults Precepts Transcend Time and Space
Compassion Can Cause No Pain Changes Come and Go by Themselves
Turn Afflictions to Bodhi Why Do We Study the Amitabha Sutra?
Releasing Animals Let the Buddha's Name Flow
Reborn as a Fox Prayer for Peace
Seeking or According with Situations and People: A Follow-up Neither too Kind Nor too Harsh
Seeking or According with Situations and People The Elephant and His Old Blind Mother
Healing Anger It's Comfortable but It's Still a Prison
A Buddhist Perspective on Euthanasia Teaching Buddhism
Angry Buddha The Karma of Thought
Less is More Good Luck or Bad Luck?
Why We Find it So Hard to be Reborn in the Pure Land Duality and Discrimination in All We See
Repentance Practice Conserving Our Good Fortune
Fear in Our Lives Beings in the Pure Land
Karma is a Natural Law I'm Sorry, Part 1
Every Word We Think is Important What Price Progress
All Beings Live Together in the Western Pure Land Nurturing Feelings of Worth
What to Chant When a Pure Land Buddhist is Dying The Metta Sutra
Wish to be Happy? Give Daily I'm Sorry, Part 2
Four Immeasurable Minds: Compassion Four Immeasurable Minds: Loving-Kindness
The Light of a Buddha The Eight Sufferings, Part 2
The Eight Sufferings, Part 1 Carbon Crisis
Symbols in Buddhism Chanting "Amituofo" in Pure Land Practice
Four Immeasurable Minds: Equanimity Four Immeasurable Minds: Joy
Giving from Our True Nature Dedication for the Ill and Deceased
A Choice I Make Every Day It Takes Us Many Times to "Get It" Practice on the Meditation Cushion and Throughout the Day Strength of the Spirit
A Perfect Practice of the Buddhadharma In the Face of Violence
Relinquish Attachment and Discrimination Mind of Compassion Life's Daily Annoyances and Frustrations We Do Not Know
Nothing Brilliance: Just some Contended Musings We Need to Go Further
An Image of Amitabha for Someone Who is Dying Do Not Waste the Opportunity
Ego and Practice Above All Worry and Care
Chanting Becomes a Habit True or Idle Gossip?
Thanksgiving A Buddhist Perspective on Animal Rights
A Change of Heart When is Chanting Effective?
Trying to Meet Non-material Needs by Material Means Earl Grey or Dragon Pearl Jasmine?
The Four Immeasurables Practice in the Face of Laziness
A Public Opinion Poll Missing the Chance to Know the Truth
Rebirth in Every Moment Cinderella Returns
First to Last: Chanting "Amituofo" Seeing with Real Insight
A Matter of Conscience The Thought of "No Thought"
Five Ways for the Bereaved to Survive the Holidays Beyond the Horizon
How Are We Ever Going to Change Anything? The Story of Stuff
It's All About Me Finding Our Path
How Siddhartha Could Leave Yasodhara A Parable: Birth and Death
I Object to Violence Occupation: Monastic, Part 1
A Christmas Carol Social Anxiety
Is the Pure Land Real? Black-nosed Buddha
Not Waves or Surf, But Water Think "Kaleidoscope"
Everything will Come Back to Us and More There is Nothing to Seek
Occupation: Monastic, Part 2 Rules - Who Needs Them!
Namo Guan Shi Yin Pusa She Who Hears the Cries of the World
Either Way - It's Us Freeing Ourselves from This Prison
First in Fear? Taking Refuge
My Repayment The Monastic Path: Early Days
As a Diamond Grinds Giving
Sacrifice? Tree of Humanity
Hard for All Beings to Believe No Attachment to Dust
No Different from One Another Happiness in, Then out
Two Tribes or One? Turn Away from Both Winning and Losing
Mindfulness of the Buddha True Benefit, Part 2
"On Hallowing One's Diminishments" True Benefit, Part 1
To Touch Our Wisdom Only Changing Postures
Caught Again...and Again... The Solution to Our Unhappiness
Let It Flow Into Your Heart As if Struck by Two Darts
I Didn't Mean It No Way to "Jimmy the Machine"
You Have to be Brave to Take Me Out to Lunch My Resolve is Firmly Fixed
Don't Look at Others Wish Flowers
How Do I Begin a Daily Pure Land Practice? Simile of the Saw
Our Test of Courage Letting it Go
All We Truly Know Is That We Truly Know Very Little Peak Oil, Peak Coal, and Beyond
Essentials for Reading the Sutras The Miniature Earth
How to Change a Flat Tire Maintaining the Calm, Clear Mind
Benefiting Self, Others, and All Fundamental Flaw
Fueling the Fire of Hatred The Best Medicine?
Harming those We Love Sounds a Lot like Christianity
His Father's Last Words Free from Hostility
Three Jewels Hearing Its Own Sound
Making the Situation Worse Renting instead of Owning
Our Grief is Our Own Killing to Save
Do the Right Thing Waiting to be Rescued
Non-attachment, not Detachment In a Flash
Even After Death Appearances can be Deceiving
Instructions for Cultivating the Pure Land Dharma Gateway Why does it Happen?
Picking Olives A Heart's Burden
The True Cost of Technology How do I Turn This Thing Off?
How do We Hold On? The Meaning of Amitabha Buddha
How Bodhisattvas and Good Teachers Help Us My Responsibility
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Part 4 Take a Deep Breath and Blink
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, part 3 True Confessions
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Part 2 Organ Donation
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Part 1 Possessor or Possessed?
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Epilogue Protecting and Keeping in Mind
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Part 8 What Can One Person Do?
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Part 7 Everything is Perfect?
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, part 6 The Paradox of Our Age
A Buddhist Response to Climate Change, Part 5 Not Yet Ready to Save the World
Repaying Debts or Being Taken Advantage Of Need a Forest, a River, or a Brook
Past Karmas are the Cause Going Up? Mother and Child Is it Really Unfair? Neither Judge, Jury, nor Executioner Harmony Within and Without
And it Made Me Cry Impermanence
Kindergarten Ethics Why did the Buddha Hesitate?
Not Yet Time to Appear Sunflowers in April
When Can We Be Helped? Bodhisattvas Fear Causes
So Where is My Garden? Ninety-nine Faults
Licenses Expiring and Conditions Maturing What is Renunciation?
Every Thought is a Karma Shouldn't, Wouldn't
Forgive and Forget When Can We Stop?
It's Habits A Field of Good Fortune
To Deal With It Doing It Again
The Only Really Good Stuff is at the Store Timing is Everything
Confessions of a Budding Locavore Hatred is a Poison
Different Situations, Different Methods You Just Never Know
Watch What You Say The Toothache
We Are All Human Storing and Packing and Storing! Oh, My!
Perhaps an Age of True Peace Good Conditions
What Does the Average American See 20000 Times a Year? Is it Because...?
The Story of Vakula The Story of Gavampati
The Story of Suddhipanthaka Won't You Be My Neighbor?
It Happened Last Friday Night Ok, I Shouldn't Have
Turn It Off It's My Karma
Silence is Golden (And Less Troublesome!) Difficult Practice Conditions
I'm Only a Child Thoughts from a patriarch
Calm Before the Storm White
The Story of Pindola-bharadvaja The Story of Maitreya
Convenience is a Dangerous Thing Better Than TV - The Equine Perspective
But That's Not What I Said Oil Addiction
Difference Between Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Find the Way
Don't Just Read About it, Do it Choices That Will Haunt Us for a Lifetime
One Who Has Enough Then When?
Being Careful of What We Advise I'm Fine, Thank you
Self-spoken When the Time Was Right No Expectations, No Disappointments
40 Steps on the Personal Path to Green So Where Was the Happiness?
Surely It's Too Small to Matter! Laziness and a Nap, a Book, and the Sky
Good Roots, Good Fortune, and Favorable Conditions Does the Language Matter?
Where's the Excitement? The Mind and Heart Disconnect
Constant Mindfulness of Amitabha Buddha Should We Just Put Up With It?
When Our Karma Comes to Grab Us Completely Letting Go
Life in Samsara The Ocean Liner Destiny
For the Sake of the Children But I'm Justified!
Oops! That Is Not What I Meant! Shoot Me First
But How Can We Tell? You Just Never Know
Living in Our New World, Part 4 Financial Collapse The Best Learning Environment
Living in Our New World Part 3: Peak Oil How Does One Adjust One's Mindset?
Living in Our New World Part 2: Sleeping Beauty and Fairy Godmother Some Things are Meant to Be
Living in Our New World Part 1: Time for a New Normal Achieving in Pure Land Practice, Part 2
Living in Our New World Part 9: To Do Right Achieving in Pure Land Practice, Part 1
Living in Our New World Part 8: Making Preparations The First Turn is the Hardest
Living in Our New World Part 7: Becoming a Fairy Godmother The Health Effects of Losing One's Temper
Living in Our New World Part 6: Back Down the Ladder Infinite Life Sutra Excerpt
living in Our New World Part 5: Food Don't Judge, Be Quiet, Observe
Love It's All About Choice
How Could He and Why Can't Others? Pay Attention, Do Good
The Fish and the Turtle Smiling for Peace
Practical Practice Always Changing
No Expectations A Heart Cannot Cry
Thoughts Can It Get Worse?
Remember to Remember The Luck of the Caregiver
The Right Thing As Natural as Breathing
"Buddhist Nun!" Weeding Our Garden
In the Nick of Time More Stubborn than the Proverbial Mule
Simple, But Not Easy Nothing Exists on its Own
When the Mind is Pure Wow! Where Did That Come From? Amituofo, Amituofo, Amituofo The Time Was Right
Love (Flash Movie) I Have to Change
Worst Enemy, Best Friend Good Dharmas
Revelations My Fear, My Shame, My Choice
To Respect All Buddhas We Need to Show Before We Can Receive
One Should Untempted and Undisturbed
It's the Connection, Not the Language A Matter of Perspective
Politics and Attachments Source of Happiness
Heavy Load, No Load One Hundred Percent
Moment of Darkness Snowed under in Australia
Only Four Shopping Days till Christmas! Only One?
The Vegan Question Finding Our Perfect Puzzle
Our True Nature 10 Ways to be Happy
Anger and Clarity Protons, Neutrons, and Quarks
In the Eye of the Beholder Linear or Cyclic?
Reaping What We Sow Souls Separated by Phantoms
Think of Them as Distractions Who Will Foot the Bill?
Resting on One's Laurels is Hazardous to One's Happiness Simple Wisdom
The Illusory Mind or the Enlightened Mind Making the Choice Every Day
What's the Urgency? I Have Some Questions!
The Secure Way to Cultivate New Age or the Old Way
A Joy and a Haven A Prayer
Fleeting Pleasures A Perfect Tapestry
This is Selflessness The Interfaith Summit
Gossiping Eyes of a Buddha-to-be
Be Good The Unfaltering Vow
And Tomorrow? I Wish You Enough
Lest We Blame Others But I Deserve It!
Personal Responsibility Living Will
I Can't do Everything, But I Can Do Something Like the Lingering Scent of Wine
The Merest Simmer of Thought Wisdom from the Master
On What to Rely Comfort Levels in Cultivation
Where Can a Baby Get a Birth Certificate and Hunting License in the Same Year? Wisdom from the Master
Here Sweetie, Have a Gun for Your Fifth Birthday Mrs. Black-whiskers Grey
A Clean Kill? Do Cows Cry?
Belief and Vow Who'd Have Thought
I Know What I am Doing, It's the Other Person Who Doesn't Two Brothers and One Umbrella
Ways I Have Change Since Becoming a Pure Land Buddhist Exclusive Pursuit
Where's the Value in the Suffering? The Ultimate Activist
Pieter's Misunderstanding Chicken a la Carte
How Atifeh Helped Her Parents Up the Mountain
Why Crows Only Say "Caw!, Caw!" The Pure Mind, The Still Mind
Cultivating Wisdom and Good Fortune While in the Pure Land Mr. Joseph's Special Chest
Mindfulness? or Concentration? Our Glass of Muddy Water
"Long-lost Friends" Things are Often Not What They Seem
Letting Go of Anger Happiness
Uncle Alexander Another Chance
What Can Buddhists Do When a Beloved Animal Friend Dies? Buddha as Mind
Intoxicated by Desire Four Lands in the Pure Land
Haste Makes Wastes, Just Ask Rufus Rebirth in the Pure Land
Expectations or Aspirations? A Missed Opportunity
Walking a Fine Line Vote for Happiness
I'm Not Arrogant, I'm Right! Someone is Watching
A State of Mindlessness The True Nature of "I Am"
Found: Piece of Cheese, Owner Unclear Meatless Monday
A Heart as big as an Elephant Not Your Usual Asagee
The State of Mindlessness (Continue) The Mind Like Clear and Placid Water
Not Your Usual Fish Dinner Rushing Headlong to Discrimination
Old Friends New Friends Sincerity is...
Effective Buddha-name Chanting Method True Confessions
Only We Can Do It The Meaning of Amitabha Buddha
Pure and Unfettered Harry's Note
Planting and Reaping Critical Moment
No Longer Vexed Like Looking Through a Gauze Curtain
The Mind Like a Soiled Sponge or a Clear Mirror Ethel and Her Eggs
At Peace With Ourselves May We Learn from the Animals
The Power of Trust Homemaker Bodhisattva
Real Buddhists Sit in Meditation. Right? Twill Grows Up
Mistaking a Thief for a Son Giving Up Our Addictions
The Princess and Her Two Gifts At Least for a Moment
The Big Bright Electric-blue Plastic Basket Was that a Thought or a Worry?
Thoughts on a Peaceful Day Benefits of Practicing the Six Paramitas
Being Attached to Set Forms of Practice A Truly Good Person
Sounds Like Christianity to Me For Those Who Are Wondering...
Affliction or Appreciation Gossip or Criticism
Taking it for Granted Living in a Grateful World 4
Living in a Grateful World 3 Living in a Grateful World 2
Living in a Grateful World 1 Trouble with Talking
Klissa's Moment of True Living in a Grateful World - To Me
Living in a Grateful World - In Prison Living in a Grateful World 6
Living a in Grateful World 5 More Facebook...
The True Benefits of Learning Chanting Amituofo - Great Good Fortune
Well That was Frustrating - Thank you Non-attachment, Not Detachment
I Resolve Tahdah!!!
Genus: Lonicera. Species: Amituofo No Disrespect Intended, But...
How to Make Eggplant We Don't Mean To
Excuse Me, Your Name is? To Change Our Life
As Comprehending as Children Thoughts on Purity of Mind
Curbing Bad Language Isn't it Enough to be Bodhisattva?
Yoo Hoooo Debbie! A Heart's Burden
Thoughts on Sincerity You're Very Welcome
Taking a Ship to the Other Shore What Would You Think if...
Life and the Living of it How Do I Use a Nianju or Mala Properly?
Affected by Others' Suffering Compassion Tempered With Wisdom
One Step at a Time A Hot Coal
Expectations of Aspirations Excerpts from Buddhist Sutras
Buddhist Sutra Excerpts Thoughts on Stillness of Mind
How Many Holes I Have to Dip Before I Hit Water Tiny Beacon of Life
Bodhisattvas Fear Causes, Sentient Beings Fear Effects Too Small to Matter?
Thoughts from Great Master Yin Guang on Cause and Effect Affinity Has No Boundaries, Love No Discrimination
Joe's all-American Pure Land Temple, reiki Studio, Juice Bar and Veggie Burger Emporium Lundeeria: Chapter 4
Plants are Living Beings Too Lundeeria: Chapter 3
Lundeeria: Chater 2 Lundeeria: Chater 1
Courageous Compassion Lundeeria: Chater 7
Lundeeria: Chater 6 Lundeeria: Chapter 5
A Buddha-name Chanting Practitioner Must Fulfill One's Responsibilities The Death of Someone We Love is like a Coin
How Can I Stop Being Angry at Myself With All the Terrible Things I Have Done? We Need Permissions???
Can I Read Other Sutras to Compliment on My Study of the Pure Land Sutras? Do You Pray to a Deity Like Theists Do?
From a Reader: Observation, Folks are Funny The Cause of Mental Suffering
How Do I Not Let My Ego be so Sensitive? Why Would I Want Non-existence?
What are the Karmic Consequences of a Person Who is Dirty and Untidy?
Buddha-name Chanting Practitioners Should Dedicate Merits From Chanting to the Pure Land
How Can I Stop My Depressing Thoughts? Peace and Harmony Faith, Vow, and Practice Plum Flower Deer
Ending Conflict Through Forgiveness Heart of the Teachings
Tarnished Reputation Persis: A Tale of Persistence
Great Master Yin Guan on Taking of the Three Refuges I Dare You Not to Smile!
Others Do Evil, Not Me Is True Relative or Subjective?
How Can I Introduce Buddhism to Others? Letting Go is Gaining
Thoughts on Hearing of Terrible Events How Do We Change Social Policy?
Do We Have Free Will? Like Mother, Like Daughter (Oops)
When Thoughts Intrude Buddhism and Education
Why Am I Grieving So Much Over the Death of My Dog or Cat? What Are Good Roots?
path to peace I Understand and Appreciate... But...
Do We Come Back from The Pure Land to Help Others? The Doors of My Heart
I'm Finished! Sometime It Doesn't Matter
What Do I Do? It's Not Fair
