tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25617408601127984072024-03-04T22:53:30.766-06:00sanghawalksVinaya Bhikshuni Sangha collections, stories and teachings in the USAhaloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-75434325000551862422022-01-05T10:57:00.007-06:002022-01-24T13:20:19.415-06:002022 and upcoming Chinese New Year! <span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sangha,</span><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Much has happened since 2017! Living a full life in robes these many years, we find that time turns fast! 2022 brings us a pause since the Covid19 pandemic started in 2019 December in the USA and elsewhere we have had to adjust to non-travel as best we can.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Some we lost, many persevered. 2022 is hopeful with new treatment being a Covid19 pill in the works. In spite of the breakout infections and normal flu season at the start of 2021 Winter we still are continuing to travel, unless there is a travel ban in place.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Some in the Sangha are spreading doom and gloom, misappropriating the idea of a "dharma-ending" age to our current pandemic. But it's wrong to hang on tightly to negative thinking, it's not wrong to have it but it's wrong to spread it as a dharma teaching. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What kinds of doom and gloom?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Climate change:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Humanity can survive as our climate changes. What Sangha can do is support climate by reducing pollutants in their life, and encouraging re-forestation among other things to support healthy planet living.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Fear:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Why are so many fearful? Because their laity are. Sangha are human and subject to the same emotions and life challenges as anyone else. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Elderly population is large:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Also a very large segment of population in Sangha and householders are elderly, with the current groups being the most favored as reliable donors. Sangha who fail to attract younger longer-lasting donors will see crisis, and many have undergone shuttering their doors and moving on because this because of sheer lack of new younger laity.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">High percentage of time focused on Finances:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sangha need to focus on their training but is forced into focusing on finances instead. That's our reality. Lands are not donated by kings, the wealthy or family as much as they used to be (if that, irregularly in the past). Nonprofits are treated like businesses these days. Taxes are due. Religious organizations in the USA are treated like businesses not granted exemptions locally or nationally.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Recommendations: Focus on what is reality</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So, to relieve this pressure Sangha should rethink their approach to donors, finances and fit into the world think regarding money, it's use and place in their lives. And forgoing money is not an option.<i> Someone has to pay the bills, be responsible for finances and plan for future growth in the Sangha.</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Western people in robes receive less or none:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Western born people who join the Sangha anywhere in the world have financial stress all of the time they are in robes in a host temple. They worked in their life for a salary. Then suddenly it changes while in robes - the money stops, the temples are supposed to provide all their needs, pity most do not. Donors are not easy to give donations to Western people because they see us as rich and our countries as rich. They have to be cajoled and nagged to do so by resident Sangha who are the same culture and race as their laity. This makes it hard to accept if you are Western (no matter race) if you live all your robed life aware of that disparity, even that taints the money given on your behalf because it is not a purely given act of dana.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Asian Sangha feels the pressure the most: Support them more, reduce stressors.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Consider the life our resident Sangha who are Asian, it must be such awful pressure to constantly cajole laity to donate and volunteer at the temple, they have to worry about money to pay the temple bills, mortgage and marketing, having enough rewards for laity, buying enough food for laity and services, setting up services, enough supplies for the public, finding enough items for gift shop to to sell in order to buy daily groceries; over and above their private needs. Kudos to them, for it is not easy to deal with the modern life requirements regarding money in religious life. They are often over kind to Western people who while train in robes are often awkward company because they are not understanding the subtitles of the temple culture, even some to give up their personal items, spaces, or favors so the Westerner stays or won't complain. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A few men in robes receive it all while women work in the kitchen: Equity now.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In larger places Western men in robes are often lifted up by the entire resident Sangha to be untouchable, oddly a few wear robes different from their supportive resident Sangha, travels wherever, and are scholars; doesn't work in the kitchen like Western women have to or in laboring areas of the temple. These men are often given higher education while Western women are denied education, all expense paid by their community while Western women have to pay for theirs; many times these men fail in robes and later disrobe to the chagrin of their supportive Sangha while most of the Western women remain in robes, in poverty. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What you can do in 2022?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Strive to become independent of this system that has thwarted the overseas Sangha since modernization changed all religious organizations with residents into businesses. The main emphasis on temples in the west founded by overseas Sangha or Buddhist laity is on gathering money, chanting, blessings or crafting. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Western founded temples are no better, all shiny, expensive, up-scale in building, foods and design. This is the norm now. But it takes up a large amount of resident Sangha time to keep the money coming in, cajoling laity, creating new or trendy activities based on the new "money model" of temple management.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sangha are not royalty: We work when the need is great. Laity support necessary.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">There is no shame in fundraising but there is in the act of cajoling laity. Raise money but do it honestly. Buddha needed financing, dana was the means to support Sangha both parts, Bhikshuni and Bhikshu. Buddha was the son of a King and received dana, even demanded support from other area Kings, only his immediate family who were cousins, uncles that joined his Sangha benefitted; there were outlying Sangha members who starved to death, suffered from illnesses, took jobs to survive while in robes or ran businesses. The sufferings of his outlying Sangha were well known to him and subjects of many sutras, stories, and subsequent Vinaya changes. Those are the facts. Look them up.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Resource disparity: too much self-sacrificing so become more independent</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Fairness in the Sangha regarding sharing wealth, resources, and the 4 requisites has always been of concern to us. It's been a struggle since Buddha's time to have equality in distribution of the 4 requisites. I haven't had new robes offered in years. Some Sangha get offered 4 or more times per year.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So in 2022 become more independent. Don't be self-sacrificing so much that you become a servant to the temple, in place of your cultivation and financial stability. Bhikshu and Bhikshuni are not servants, we should never be in that position.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Bhikshu and Bhikshuni need to think of the future generations and what would be the good in institutionalizing a system based on money? Is that not the anti-thesis of Sangha cultivation? </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Recommendation: Avoid these and any other coercion:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Money is necessary, no need to feign antiquated attitudes regarding money. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Some common phrases abound:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"Oh, I don't touch money!" Reality is there are needs to meet like make car payments, mortgages, rent, utilities, health insurance, etc. Online, credit card, debit card, cash are all forms of money, even barter (exchange money valued goods or services instead of money).<br /><br />It is common to raise funds through coercion in religious settings even our temples, even relying on emotional threats or accusations of lack of faith to get the money!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">"What! You don't have enough faith in the Buddha!" Implies if you did have faith, you would donate, listen to and meet the Sangha demands. It's devious manipulation of the laity. You should not do this, it makes people afraid, mistrust the Sangha, feel undue pressure to pay money to a temple, and just is immoral.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Mental strife is a key to manipulation by fundraising Sangha everywhere. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Mental illness in the laity or the laity's family is key to emotional manipulation to get money from them. "If you love them enough..." "If your cultivation/faith was good enough ..." </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Faith, devotion, cultivation, dedication, all terms used to pull money out of laity and new donors.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Every religious group does this. It does not make it right. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">What is really going on is this: "Hey! If you want me to spend time with you, pay some money. If you want me to spend hours listening to you rave, pay some money. If you want to delay a solution, pay some money. If you want to go off your meds or avoid being in hospital, pay some money."</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">KEY: The mentally ill who wants to avoid medications, hospitalization, or reality is an easy target for any religious group. It's so easy to lay it all on the Buddha or Bodhisattva instead of dealing with the matters at hand. Western medicine works well when it's done with education, support via therapy, and acceptance. So does Chinese medicine combined with therapy, Western medicine and acceptance.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">KARMA</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Karma good or bad is used as manipulative means to exploit laity for participation in services, donate time and money to their temples. This is termed 'faith' 'believe in' in God-based religions and is used as a tool for getting money too.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">VOLUNTEERS</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Admittedly, who would willingly work 8-12 hour day to help out a temple who is getting ready for a weeks long chanting service and keep coming daily to help out for 4 to 8 hours after the 12 hour daily service???? A very good person but they are far and few. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">So, in future places to build a temple go back to basics of what it really was, a Sangha residence. A humble place, just for Sangha to gather and rest. No more fancy ultra-expensive palace-like temples. Go back to humble homes.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><u>Recommendation: Pandemic lessons, go back to simple living, avoid unhealthy places</u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">2022 The pandemic was a disaster to Sangha who operate the chanting for money model, they had to flip to online streaming, distance donor solicitations, and shut their doors if they were big temples subject to shut-downs locally. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Sangha, change what you can. If you can survive without chanting for money then do so. If not, get a job where you can move out and move on, stay in robes, keep the Vinaya, become more travelled, more education (without debt), and do not give up. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It is easier for Western people to do this in Western countries because our culture supports us to work at paid jobs. Eastern people also have worked since Buddha's time in robes. And it's still happening, so take heart for those so isolated they need to work. There is no shame in it. Even stalwart Sangha who upheld the "I'm not working, so I am good Sangha" view work a job or two for money. Stories are told everywhere, we have a small world you know.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><u>Recommendation: ADAPT and when in doubt adapt! </u></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Adapt to the conditions of the time we are in, cultivate when you can, keep the Vinaya, stay in robes, keep your health up, stabilize your money and life, enjoy the peace of it.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Happy New Year, may you be successful in the new year!</span></div><div><br /></div>haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-10168967299869845082017-03-23T09:48:00.000-05:002019-11-29T10:12:14.731-06:00Facets April 2017 Issue Interview for "Women of Faith" Here is the early issue from Facets April 2017, a series of articles "Women of Faith" <br />
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<br />haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-90304326550612454442017-01-12T20:58:00.000-06:002017-01-12T20:58:33.607-06:00Sangha with Pets with painful terminal illnesses facing the reality of euthanasiaMy sympathies for your plight. As Vinaya Sangha we support life, but when we see such wretched suffering in our dear companion pets, we are as torn as any one else would be. It's grief, very powerful and painful for our pets are sentient beings.<br />
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I had always had sympathy for pet owners facing a crisis in healthcare for their pets, especially hospice and eventual euthanasia. Many laypeople are so judgmental, and when not faced with having a pet whom they love dearly suffer so, make it harder to provide a release of life.<br />
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Also our deep understanding of Vinaya makes it a painful choice, but regarding pets it's not a breach of Parjika because that only refers to human beings. And the intention of euthanasia is to release from suffering, a suffering in life due to terminal illness reducing the quality of life so much that water, food and compassionate touch can't reach your pet to comfort them.<br />
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It hurts you, because they hurt so much. For those of you holding Bodhisattva ordination, it makes it imperative to act compassionately. It's a misinterpretation to view euthanasia in pets as breech when it is not. It would only be a breech if you kill an animal for no reason. If you are protecting others or yourself from them it's allowed (for your human life and others is precious, live more days to pass along Buddha Dharma). If you kill in anger or some other kind of emotion it's a breech. If you kill because it's an accident it's not a breech, but a fault of skill, that you must remedy as best you can.<br />
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Euthanasia is compassionate, it's not you doing it, it's the doctors, it's not you supporting killing, it's you supporting the end of needless suffering in your beloved pet.<br />
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<br />haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-72328691724715727702016-04-10T17:43:00.002-05:002019-11-29T10:24:22.996-06:00Walking skeletons in robes the unhealthy portrayed as ideals in Sangha imagery This is a commentary on body image within the Sangha. It came as a result of living with women and men in temples, seeing first hand how body image impacts our roles within the temple. I received a copy of the Karmans of the Creation of Virtue from another temple. It was an eye opener. I would have thought that body image does not matter in a Buddhist Temple, but it does. I thought such worldly things were beyond our walls. I read with disgust at first in the Karmans of the Creation of Virtue in a footnote about encouraging monastics to be healthy, eat healthy and maintain a healthy body weight. Indirectly it felt like a judgement without having the facts at hand.<br />
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It was just a good supportive comment but it raises important issues about health and imagery of the Sangha who are also subject to various outside influences, either through their own media groups or their laity or even from their own perceptions regarding health and body weight.<br />
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The classic imagery of Sangha are thin bodies with no fat, no hair, no facial hair, and no body hair. However, across all races and genders there are rich variations of human forms among us. But directly and unspoken are the ideal forms.<br />
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Bhikshuni Sangha have it wrong in most Asian cultures with their bound breasts or in an effort to look like the ideal male form very thin and flat chested, no doubt they were influenced by the imagery of the past showing bhikshuni without breasts. <br />
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In the West women are not going to push their breasts under layers of vests that are 4 sizes smaller so their breasts don't show in their robes. There are not a lot of women who are small chested here, many thin with big breasts and many fat with small breasts or variations of both. <br />
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In Asian many women already were used to breast binding and it carried into their robes. In Europe women even do not wear western bras replacing them with camisoles and vests instead. The culture of breast binding is ancient and with our level of education on body imagery is just harmful to our young women and laity who have girls. <br />
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Right now, I am large and most of the time I used one sports bra or one bra, not two or three at once, and not 4 sizes smaller than what I need. During training, my bra was tossed in favor of layers of vest and t-shirt plus a short outer shirt and pants covered by a long vest. I was not happy, I missed my bra, it was expensive and fit my small breasts giving me the needed support the bra-maker said I needed.<br />
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The robes have to be changed to accommodate modern healthier practices. Bra or no bra, breasts are a mark of women that we should not have to bind flat to look like men or boys. We are not Greek kori figures after all.<br />
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The Greek kori statuary forms come to mind, along with stylized imagery in classic silk screens and paintings of Sangha. Historical references rarely show the variation in form of the actual masters they are said to depict.<br />
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The thin emaciated form is highly sought after by laity and Sangha. This causes problems in health and distractions from cultivation when monastics are encouraged to be thin yet eat like pigs at meal times. How on earth are you to keep healthy when eating beyond your natural capacity or willingness?<br />
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It seems that laity have been on this awful bent, concerning their own weight issues. It seems that the donors are equating a good virtuous Sangha member as a walking skeleton, because if thin then the practice must be demanding and therefore a sign of virtue. Thus the motivation of Sangha to remain unusually thin to gain the benefit of donors to stay alive.<br />
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I've seen first hand the harmful practices mirror the eating disorders of laywomen and girls, also extremes of ascetic practices that laity often praise bring more health concerns.<br />
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I'm not saying people in robes are doing this on a large scale, thank goodness. But unfortunately in various ways the laity are singing the praises of those that stay unusually thin, while equating this with a good practice. There is an alarming trend now in Pure Land to go on 10 day fasts to see Amituofo and the Pure Land. It is closely aligned with a current master known as Ven. Jing Kong an elderly monk in the Pure Land tradition. He preaches about the Dharma Ending age and many of his followers both Sangha and laity are practicing extreme asceticism in their over excitement.<br />
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I can't support such activities because they are not what the Buddha taught, particularly when Buddha always and often said practice was according to the middle way, not asceticism. This is the one big flag that I hope people wake up themselves regarding trendy practices labeled as Buddhist.<br />
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I would never ever encourage people to go to extremes, it's not a contest, the world is not ending, Buddha dharma is preserved, propagated and protected by Sangha who value it. And Sangha who also practice Pure Land methods moderately follow closely Buddha's teachings.<br />
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2002 Ven. Hongyang sramani at 118 pounds, healthy weight; I arrived suffering from old back injuries and told the abbot I could not lift the heavy boxes, he didn't care; accommodating me was not in play when laity needed their food or services, had to ditch the double leg braces because he made me walk 10 blocks very quickly to get to the hospital and back, then do bowing services with them on! It made more health problems and blisters on the contact points.</div>
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2005 Western Buddhist Monastic Gathering, Shasta Abbey, Ven. Hongyang 160 pounds; this was the best place I really enjoyed their place, it was filled with kind monastics! I began to trust temples again after this wonderful experience.<br />
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2013 Western Buddhist Monastic Gathering, CDR, Ven. Hongyang 190 pounds; my next favorite monastic place to visit is City of Dharma Realm a Chinese nunnery. They have a smorgasbord style of cafeteria, it was wonderfully healthy!<br />
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2014 Ven. Hongyang 196 pounds<br />
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Now I am 187 pounds, since February 8 after I got a Misfit Shine 2. I've eliminated as much processed food as I could, increased my stretching and vastly improved my sleep awareness with this tracker. It reminds me to move, interrupting my translation sessions nicely. I hope this trend continues. <br />
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My injuries stopped me from moving, all my injuries were made worse at my former temple. I could not keep up with a 30 year old strong monk, even he demanded me to acting as if I was in my 20s when I was in my mid-40s! <br />
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There is a certain amount of cruelty in nearly all cultures that portrays obese people as stupid or mental, it's very sad reflection on the Sangha when they engage in this kind of thinking. Behind the walls I've been aware of how people act towards me after seeing them behave towards others they called "fatty" in a supposed kindly manner, basing their perception on what they see alone, it affects whether they want to come and talk to me. This is true of the elite whites in robes as well, and it makes me wonder if that snobbery is due to elitism rather than race, since I have first hand experienced this in temples when I have visited them.<br />
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Genetics comes into play when you age at at certain point, also injuries that are permanent in my case both people can do nothing about. If your Aunt Grace or Uncle George were fat, you saw your parents get fat as they aged then the likelihood of you becoming fat may be true to some extent. <br />
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Very few people have suffered from obesity through sheer neglect while in robes. As I found out from my friends who shared a lot their weight gain comes from abuse and unhealthy temple foods that are high in salt and fat lacking in proteins and needed balance in nutrition. <br />
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Temple food culture is inherited as well. In my former tonsure temple there was too much frying, too much salt, and oil; heavy use of preserved veggies, and vinegars. I've eating in other temples and their foods while tasty are no better; unless they offer a salad bar and you can pick and choose your food choices. Smaller ones if they are Asian are very used Ito high salt and little balance in nutrition. I learned to drink gongcha in the afternoon and it helped but did not stop the effects of high salt diet.<br />
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Healthy choices are not in the control of individual Sangha unless they live in solitude and provide their own meals, even laity providing meals can be a disaster to their health. I limit meal treats out, even do not allow myself to visit and eat at anyone's homes anymore. I keep my own food simple and very low salt and it's working for me. I've a slow weight loss because of aging and injuries but I am optimistic that I can achieve my goals.<br />
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Now, I dare you to make a judgement regarding my virtue or my practice based on my looks. If you have any class you won't even try. If you have any study of Buddhism you won't be basing it on looks alone or this article. If you a good deal of common sense you won't even try based on this article.haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-76848887452866661222015-11-19T16:01:00.000-06:002015-11-19T16:01:01.593-06:00Basic Sangha Community Rights for Sangha discussion only<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<li>Full citizenry rights in the resident country and overseas.</li>
<li>Full support in daily living includes 4-requisites</li>
<li>All possible opportunities for education given everyone without payback expected.</li>
<li>Respect by 4-fold assembly of host country Sangha members.</li>
<li>Appropriately sensitive to Sangha include celebrations that do not harm or create ethical problems for the Sangha including indigenous cultures and customs of host country.</li>
<li>Monthly stipend that suitable for the area and allows a fund to be used by the individual as they wish, not the home country of the ethnic founders.</li>
<li>Access to good internet connection to prevent isolation from family, friends, and peers. Freedom to decide online presence as long as precepts are being observed online as well. Anything harmful or illegal should be regarded as reasons to report to the law to protect the community. Politics cause problems enough so Sangha should up their security and use pass code locks on their electronics like phones and computers, even ipads, </li>
<li>Every Sangha member has a right to decide without pressure from a temple or individuals what to do with their own money. They can save for their own purpose, invest, donate as they see fit. If they fritter their money away how can that benefit their progress on the Path?</li>
<li>Freedom to receive visitors of their own approval and to leave to visit others.</li>
<li>Freedom to speak, visit, travel with other Sangha in good standing regardless of robes or tradition as long as the Sangha they visit are in good standing.</li>
<li>Freedom to speak, visit, travel with other monastic religious outside of Buddhism.</li>
<li>All countries, all languages, all abilities of Sangha who remain in good standing have the full ability to preserve, protect, and propagate Buddha dharma, the precepts, perform any service or transmission regardless of origin in Buddhism, participate and confer with appropriate Vinaya numbers of Sangha full ordination, Bodhisattva vows, and confer lineages either new or ancient.</li>
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I'm pretty mature in monastic age entering the age requirement for a Vinaya master, but I am becoming known through my online presence and in my meetings with other Western and Eastern people in robes. In my tradition, the Chinese Buddhist Sangha really considers more senior bhikshu and bhikshuni Vinaya masters of more than 20 rains years or exceptional younger ones.<br />
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For the myself being 11 rains as of this writing I'm among the younger ones. I've been on a 2 year Vinaya retreat with the purpose of preparing for next year being my <i>ordination giving age</i> of 12 years as an upadhyayani [ooh-pah-dye-ni].<br />
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I'm serious about my training, very serious about the Vinaya and those who claim to uphold it while engaging in worldly matters. I've been outspoken for years in favor of adherence to Vinaya over popularity.<br />
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The past 30 years has seen a decline of Western people in robes, many disrobing after years of being in robes. Most often complaints in meetings are of lack of support from their communities both in training and in the 4 requisites. The highest rate is claimed by the Western Tibetans, then the Western Thai/Sri Lanka Theravada monks. It's rare to see it happen in other communities like those founded by Chinese, Korean or Vietnamese.<br />
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Resilience in the face of lack of support in those issues is not reason enough to disrobe, lacking renewed robes means you need to repair the old ones and investigate into making your own.<br />
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I know American bhikshuni who has lacked such and remained in robes more than 20 years already.<br />
Not every Sangha member around the world whether they are from a well-funded temple or not is provided enough of the 4 requisites or treated fairly being sponsored for an education or leadership roles. <br />
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We are in 163rd year of existing in the USA through the Chinese Buddhist lineages. That is young by their standards and ours. Keep hoping and keep your precepts and all will be well.<br />
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My autobiography has been the hardest thing to write. I'm happy I made the effort to publish many sutras before I attempted the hardest thing I have ever sat down to to do. At first I made lists, wrote snippets of my challenges and victories. I had a difficult life, not unlike your own. However, I made choices that led me to the Path. And it is too my credit that I made those beneficial decisions. All the while I mused how to bring this work to you and inspire you to knuckle down and really study while practicing Buddha dharma!<br />
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I concluded that what you need less of is personal glimpses into masters lives; something you can use is concrete examples of what works from a Sangha member who has considerable amount of time spent in robes.<br />
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I am not famous to my knowledge. I am not interested in that or in bigger, better prettier temples or to be in charge of such grandeur. I don't need the prestige nor the bother of it, unless another Sangha member is in real need then I would suffer it, and really it would be suffering the loss of my practice time and my interest translating the Tripitaka completely into English.<br />
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I support the Triple Jewel, I am pure in precepts and I have faith in Buddha's teachings. I am a senior bhikshuni in robes being true to my practice and striving to bring more practices to light in my translations of sutras and commentaries into English from the Tripitaka.<br />
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am Dharma Master Hong Yang, Bhikshuni in the Chinese Buddhist tradition of
Buddhism. I have published the<i> <u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Heroes-Spell-Surangama-Commentary-Mahayana/dp/1481298976/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1394032069&sr=8-1&keywords=Heroes+Spell+surangama+commentary" target="_blank">Heroes Spell</a></u> </i>on Amazon.com that
explains each word and gives the Sanskrit and its definition and variations of
word choice for each word. Sangha cherish this mantra never knowing its meaning
because it supports our training, we support ourselves by reciting this
mantra. Lots of commentaries have been
written regarding this mantra but nothing in English, and only smidgens of
truth have come out on its content. This mantra can be revised for individual
cultivation because it engages the mind in body, voice, and action when done daily
it is a healthy practice. The history of this mantra can be found in<i> <a href="http://www.bttsonline.org/english-sutras/the-surangama-sutra/" target="_blank">the Surangama Sutra </a></i>translated into
English by the<i> Sagely City of 10,000
Buddhas </i>and available to everyone online through their bookstore, www.cttbusa.org see their online bookstore. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Maudgalyayana (Buddha’s actual
relative) recited this mantra at Buddha’s request to recall Ananda who was
arrogant and prideful over his attainments in his cultivation decided to go to
collect alms at the house of a prostitute, he just felt he knew he would not
succumb to her charms and break his serious defeat precept of no sex. Well, he was wrong, apparently in the content
of this mantra he had a problem and was about to lose his status as a monk due
to his sexual excitement over this woman who got him inside and on her bed. Also it appears he had repeatedly done so in
risky behavior because there is a point later in the mantra where the woman who
repented and became a Bhikshuni and attained the status of arhanta from
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">So how to apply this to your life,
if you are truly Sangha and celibate in body or have no thoughts arising of
sensual or sexual nature? You apply it as a lesson learned for Ananda was
Buddha’s cousin and personal attendant, with recognized status by Buddha and
his peers in the Sangha with attainments in his own right, if he could nearly
fall and risk a parajika once committed then he would have been expelled
immediately from the Sangha and had to resume lay life then we must remember
his fault, even today. Don’t be coy, don’t
be shy. This way we uphold our Vinaya
precepts, if you are laity you uphold your lay precepts. The manner of the wording and context is the
Buddha demanding Ananda return or be at risk of being expelled if he commits
sexual intercourse, and he is mad. He
has harsh words to say to Ananda, very direct, explicit to the actions he has
been seen doing by the community. As a
Vinaya precept holder myself I understand the style and harshness, it’s
necessary at such risk for an expulsion and the harm is great to the young
community around Buddha himself. If you
want to reprint this you must contact me, it’s copyrighted and I will enforce
it. I’ve worked long and hard at this and this is only poste for you to study
not to reprint. Sangha monastics who
intend to study this may contact me as I plan to form a Sangha only study group
on this in the hopes you can be inspired to translate yourselves. For my published books click on this on amazon.com<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ven%20hong%20yang%20in%20books" target="_blank"> list</a>. Dharma Master Hong Yang<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Heroic
rulers in a lifetime rarely exist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Cease my
many harmful confused thoughts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Not all
Sangha gain a dharma body<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Wishing
for a good result, to be a treasure ruler<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Return
as many people as there are rivers and sands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Will
this deep intent, giving, courtesy, intuitive virtue.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Is then called repaying Buddha’s kindness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Prostrating
please World Honored certify me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">This
Five Peck evil world I vow first to enter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">If one
being not yet becomes a Buddha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">End not
in this to choose Nirvana <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Great
Might, Great Power, Great Compassion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Hope to
study more to remove small tiny doubts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I swear
to early gain Perfect Enlightenment<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In the
10 directions boundary sit in a Buddha hall.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Emptiness</span></i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> in fact cancels death <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">This
wheel mind will not turn.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to
Resident Ten Directions Buddhas! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to
Resident Ten Directions Dharmas!<br />
I bow to Resident Ten Directions Sanghas! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to
Sakyamuni Buddha! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to
Buddha’s Crown Heroes Realm! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to
Hears the Worlds Sounds Awakened! </span><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Avalokitasvara</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><br />
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to
Earth Store Awakened! </span><i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Ksitigarbha</span></i><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">At that
time the World Honored, from his crown, surged a 100 Jeweled lights. The lights within these surged outward. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Precious
1000 petal lotuses, in each one transformed Buddhas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Sitting
on these precious flowers, their crowns releasing the 10 Paths. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">100
precious lights, each one radiant, all of them now revealed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">As many
as there are grains of sands. Buddha’s inner
disciples are lifting thunderbolts and staffs on their mountains, all over to
the edges of space. The Great Assembly their faces raised observed, in awe and
admiration, they asked Buddha to pity them and to help. Eager to listen to Buddha. An invisible crown appears on his head called
<u>Sending a Light Arrived</u>. Who proclaimed and spoke this spirit spell:<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><br /></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Heroes Spell, Section
One lines 1-137</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in praise - places the mind in proper support.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to sitting eloquent worthy peace perfect
enlightenment </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">sitting </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Buddha lotus crown! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Me a Buddha Bodhi sitting going gone! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in praise to sitting and a lotus! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow</span></u><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> in
praise of perfect enlightenment!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow</span></u><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> in
praise oceans of respect to Sangha! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in praise to World worthy! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in praise to Stream enterer! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in praise to acting unified in desire! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in praise to free, equality gone! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<u><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow</span></u><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> in
praise of Equality and Bowl, Lamp, and Dana!
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in praise to Lamp hermit! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in praise to Sakyamuni knowledge &
hermit’s air! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow</span></u><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> in
praise of mighty bliss muttering is stopped!</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Sending forth Treasure!</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to mighty deeds! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Venerable section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Venerable vast power of good friend’s
paths & the virtuous! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Venerable mortal leader open to folly
sealed! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Piety!
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Venerable the </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">n</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">et of
illusion fleeting three breaths. The </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">alms bowl & </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">healthy drink now for you are too gone astray, create a desire for robes
and seal clan! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to, piety!
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Dwelling sub-section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in dwelling to Venerable Buddha! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in dwelling to the Lotus sitting! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in dwelling to the Resolute! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in dwelling to the Jewels! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow in dwelling to the Warrior! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Venerable, a triple purity Sage while having
a master this wild behavior is not safe; to Buddha! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Venerable!
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Arrived, Worthy, to perfect enlightenment section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Immortality, worthy Arrived, to perfect
enlightenment! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Venerable Unshakable, worthy Arrived, t</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">o </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">perfect enlightenment! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> Venerable </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Medicine
Teacher, wishes matured be thunder wisdom Arrived! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Venerable </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Revering,
known following play ends worthy Arrived,</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> to </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">perfect
enlightenment! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Venerable Sage to Sakya, worthy Arrived, t</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">o </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">perfect enlightenment! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Venerable Jewel royal song, worthy Arrived
perfect enlightenment divine! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Venerable Ananda must return and restrain section. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to forever present venerable sitting; light
crown sitting and bowl! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I bow to Unconquerable return course maker! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Ananda’s problem &
consequences section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Hearing in </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">town </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">the </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">past seizing you is restraining the waking to non-existence in the next
life this knowledge destroys the origin wiping it away to counter the current! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Streaming; binding; liberation! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Streaming; guilt; defiling; desire! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Praise and Guarding section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Praise resisting wheel successful, seizing this
world a solid defense in ruining rebellion! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Praise having ability won, g</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">uarding
fortifies the body! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Praise</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> rebirth
peace frees </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">sorrow</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">, </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">guarding great grasping,
guarding agitation within </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">nature
</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">delaying is cowardly air</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"> wicked </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">ruin
forgetting a speedy ghost!</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Praising attainment in great elements, great mental
power, great path, a treasury to a great next life!</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Lover </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">crossed pious wishing Lotus living victory!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Resolute section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Resolute, death!
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Resolute, passing a </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Lotus sitting! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Resolute, digging a great living in next life’s
song! Resolute, might! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Resolute, power like an enemy honored after a
stable great path a pious crossing closer to a great next life! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Resolute, vast living! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Resolute, a daughter shattering a noble
lineage! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Resolute, handed knowledge who is the initiator?
Right path is Origin Buddha awareness a crown bump hero gifted flowers and
beauty! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Resolute, like a jeweler! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Resolute, guarding a gold light! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Resolute, quick charming teachings shines worry
less!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Sealing the section spell protection.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">So thus seals community! My living protection! Now have an undivided desire for liberation! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(Recite now call disciples <i>{name(s)}</i> to accept and maintain their
faith) <i>[private in home practice, never used in temple unless special
request]]</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><i><br /></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Heroes Spell, Section Two lines 138-178</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc297426574"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc296709855"></a><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Scolding section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Joyously</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc289011891"></a><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">
lively in community</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">
with a mighty will</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> you wicked-minded gone away from
Sangha;<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Toc289011900"> </a>amusing</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> at
best! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Sounds, amusing at best! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Will and perception, amusing at best! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Devoted to your friends & towns; amusing at
best! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Personal speedy ghosts, body’s evil spirits,
seizing, evil spirits you have a</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">gitation within; amusing</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> at best! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Guiding success praised so seizing the worldly sage
praised agitation is human; amusing at best! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Return to the Path command.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Guarding </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Venerable you are w</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">icked-minded! You formed a crown bump you return
immediately! Great at defying and
driving me away! Sir, you are defying
and driving me away by your bad luck!
Lotus, we were sitting</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">together,
we three here are eager for your return!
Warrior try to attain! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Encouragement and call to act.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Great resolute smashing the </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">three worlds!
</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Lucky and p</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">leased w</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">ith your
sitting, Venerable the “I” is now whole so keep the desire for liberation!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(Now here its usual is to call
names of lay people & disciples {name(s)})<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><br /></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Heroes Spell, Section Three lines 179-272<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Fear Section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Guarding fear; Poison fear; Fire fear; Water fear;
Venom fear; Accident crossing fear; Next, life </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">fear; </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Disfiguring
fear; Thunderbolt fear; Beginning right path fear; Bearing into earth;
Venerable fear; Snake enclosure fear; Guarding will fear; Town fear; Knowledge
passing fear; Saving</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">
fear! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Seizing Section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Speedy Ghost seizing; Evil spirits seizing;
Departed soul seizing; </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Beggar</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> seizing; Eerie being seizing;
Betel-nut tree seizing; Demon seizing; </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Lotus demon </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">seizing;
Sense of “I” seizing; Memory lost seizing; Prey crushing seizing; Shadow
seizing; River seizing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Robbing section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Birth robbing; Life robbing; Fierce robbing; Will
robbing; Prize robbing; Liberty robbing; Race robbing; Rich robbing; </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Desire robbing; </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Intelligence</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">
robbing; </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Free from sorrow robbing; Mind robbing!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens separation of rule swift observance
section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Mind a good seat; my
grasping! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens parting from
rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Mighty bearing</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">
Lotus p</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">laying! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Song playing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens parting from
rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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honor to </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Buddha;
burying grounds playing! Knowing lessens
parting from rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Son of primal Man playing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Beloved less injury
playing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens parting from
rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Great maker </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">hands
seal </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">songs
playing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens parting from
rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Hair braid less </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">playing!</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens parting from
rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Logic victory heady sounds hero
destroying </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">playing!</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens parting from
rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Charming
s</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">ister playing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens parting from
rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Couch liking son waking a prince
p</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">unishable
</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">playing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens parting from
rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Mountain citizen music
playing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens parting from
rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Worship
p</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">laying! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens parting from
rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Desire guarding playing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens parting from
rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Firm intense home brown robe
fate master playing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Knowing lessens parting from
rules, swiftly observe! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Wish for liberation return to protecting forest refuge.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Protecting
the forest Venerable now a complete a desire for liberation!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(At this point call previous
disciples’ names)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><br /></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Heroes Spell, Section Four lines 273-332<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Overcoming
section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Venerable nature overcoming I bow to conduct!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">You wild foolish, radiant, kinsman a monk polite,
with a bowl so lively and active. Your
memory knowing; fear knowing, dread the memory, of cutting off and </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">cessation with your</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> laughing and giggling; so immature, young, simple, ignorant, and
oblivious to overcoming! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Praise section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Praise music! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Praise to not be so vain! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Praise an essential reunion! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Praise next life!
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Praise the spiritual, the solitary, and
worship! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My complete ‘awareness’ section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">complete</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> divinity! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">complete</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> forest! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> complete</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> speedy ghost! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My complete spark divinity! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My complete demon!
Lotus entire demon! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My complete memory acquisition! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My complete defiling, publicity! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My complete animating! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My complete possession! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My complete appearance home! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My complete perception loss! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My complete yearning child! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My precepts guards acts; letting go acts; polite
acts!</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">
</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">My complete notoriety accomplished; complete Precepts
maker; complete charming call; resolute, beautiful and </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">knowing!
</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Lasting section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Protection lasting! Great wisdom and meditation! Beginning
lasting! Resolute to promise! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: SimSun;">Helping section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Helping taking away golden great purpose and a
great seal birth! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Helping</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> I bow to you once</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Helping attendant lately? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Helping satisfying jewels? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Helping fire? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Helping great action? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">Helping</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> making a gift less? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Helping material world? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Helping awful? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Helping Nowhere?
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Helping is terrible singer? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Helping a hair braid caste? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Helping beyond mind, patience, is origin a
mistress? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; page-break-after: avoid; text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Action & appeal section.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">Walking to Lotus! Existing good conduct! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">I now completely desire liberation!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">(Now at this verse near or formerly
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Enemy mind! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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robbing; dwelling robbing; marrow robbing; origin robbing; sweating</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"> robbing; </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">childishness
robbing; cold robbing; blossom robbing;
next life robbing; brain robbing! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to madness seizing; grace seizing; away from memory seizing; grieving cries
fighter</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"> seizing; </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">sound</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"> seizing; </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">fight seizing; female seizing; </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">seal; play</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">
seizing; yell seizing; patched garment cleansing</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"> seizing!
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speech; images, sorrow; misfortune, burning; sage; precept loss; driving away
fight; gain, intelligence; my, sorrow; poet mind; bewildered, training in the
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injury; b</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ladder</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";"> injury; loin injury; river injury; hand injury; foot injury; 3 food
offering</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"> times; </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">body having gold injury! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a full-moon. A lover is worldly when you
are in fever and tormented, it’s so savage; and dimwitted. A good path surpassing it all is helpful and
seeds generations! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and to help your honor are three guardians; mighty Lotus in my town and
community I am powerful. You bloated
speedy ghost carrying such useful means in talking you are exceedingly
mighty. Reason it child be great at
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results in crossing; I am welding a thunderbolt; I am resolute; I have a </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">crown bump; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lesser</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"> birth. I am </span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">joining
in binding; I am resolute, I praise my pact; I am brilliant I am trained to
bear all equally and so it is!</span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-85404329696092490452013-11-25T12:05:00.000-06:002013-11-25T17:24:57.345-06:00Kicked out or Real, Advice to Sangha in robes on how to investigate frauds or errant Sangha<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">It is really hard to figure out if a monastic in
robes has been kicked out for parajika offenses and complicated if they refuse to
stop wearing robes unless you were someone connected by the sad occasion and actually knew them well. Sometimes we can find a dividing line between
‘professional’ and devoted to the Path. Here
are some of mine:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">First</span></u><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS"; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">, their behavior in robes is the first clue to how
they swing and how pure they really are. </span><br />
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if they emphasis money or fundraising over providing dharma talks and
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to see if you are noticing the things actually happening or if you just are feeling culture shock. You should talk to them to see if you can tell if they are needing (only if you are Sangha yourself can you give this) admonition or remain set in their ways. If they are past
caring about Vinaya then you need to leave them, break cleanly or you will find
yourself broken from the root (Sangha only commit this parajika by hiding another's clear parajika fault). This comment is regarding the parajika offense of associating with an unrepentant expelled Bhikshu or expelled Bhikshuni.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-10494558288747304392013-06-10T20:07:00.001-05:002013-06-10T20:07:38.918-05:00Motivation to seek ordination and join the Sangha<h2>
What is your motivation if you are indeed seeking to ordain as a monk or a nun? </h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I would hope it would be for the best reasons; however, I have read so many autobiographies since the 1990s of so-called modern seekers most who failed to remain robed that I should address motivation first.</span><br />
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If you become a monk or a nun in the Buddhist tradition called the Sangha then your motivation should be seeking Enlightenment for yourself while being a monk or a nun in Buddhist robes. </h3>
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<span style="font-size: large;">However, people become monks or nuns for much different reasons. Some reasons are for the fad of it, professional aspirations, supporting politics, supporting the underdog, to stand out from society, attain fame, get money, emotional satisfaction, making history, legitimizing views, infiltrate and conquer, escape, to help others, gay rights, women's rights, feminism, and many others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Popular causes highlighted in Buddhism tend to attract people's attention. Countries that have troubled histories in Buddhism tend to polarize people's views regarding Sangha behavior and authority. History is often ignored in light of headlines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Those seeking ordination need to really take the time they need to explore their motivation. If you are politically or fashionably orientated then you are facing more obstacles if you indeed achieve the goal of becoming ordained in robes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seek out stable long standing communities of Sangha to observe, be observed and understand how they work, practice and live. If you go into the robes without knowing the language, culture, history or even the basics of how you are expected to live and survive in robes then you are indeed in for a really rude awakening and may become frustrated and negative in your own life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Mental health in those seeking ordination, you must be conservative here. People do your work on yourself. Make use of therapy and therapists before you try to join a monastic community. Have plan of safety if you suffer form chronic mental illness. If you are good at putting it in place, taking care of your needs diligently then you should have no problems in your monastic life.</span><br />
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<br />haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-55137128000184521132013-06-08T12:15:00.001-05:002013-06-08T12:17:00.989-05:00Leaving HomeLeaving Home to become a sramana a left home man given 10 precepts or sramaneri also referred to as sramanerika a left home woman given 10 precepts in the West has to be the hardest for those that have no idea where to start to find a place to leave home to. In Buddhist countries there is the advantage of knowing where to go and the best places to go to.<br />
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It is important to go to the places first that you wish to ordain with, for women this means a longer period of observation while attending the temple as a lay Buddhist and then joining in volunteering. Most training places in the USA are founded by overseas Buddhists thus their primary culture and language is not English. The two largest places for those intending full ordination while training in the USA are the Sagely City of 10,000 Buddhas in Northern California <a href="http://www.cttbusa.org/">www.cttbUSA.org</a> and the Hsi Lai Temple <a href="http://www.hsilai.org/">www.hsilai.org</a> in Southern California.<br />
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Both places have a "look and see" type program for inquiring people who want to consider leaving home to become ordained. These programs are likely to ask you to be a volunteer for some time 3 to 6 months as you will better understand by experiencing monastery life. <br />
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Both places offer training with spoken English but will include and encourage you to study the Chinese language for benefit of understanding and participating in the Buddhist ceremonies which is also written in the Chinese language. Most of their material is in Chinese with instruction in Chinese but with English as well. It's great to learn both if your first language is neither then you need to know at least one of these two.<br />
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They both provide excellent educational opportunities. <br />
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If you choose a smaller temple it may be better to be sure you undertake it with a mature understanding. If you are the type to take on a new language and culture with a good deal of tolerance and enjoyment then go ahead. If you can't stand any type of new food or traditions then just forget it. In a smaller setting you will be taught most of the services during the course of the year, the music, the instruments, the care and preparation of services, food and events. Everyone is wearing all duty's hats, the decisions are made by the abbot or abbess generally, everyone is responsible for themselves, their health, their training. You need to be able to take the public nature of your life, the idea of being on a stage from the time you are up to the time you close your eyes and sleep is a good image to keep in mind. Most of the training places are based on the Dharmagupta Vinaya precepts meaning they are entirely Mahayana in orientation. <br />
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The best training is the one that is taken fully understanding what you are getting into, seeing problems clearly in others and in yourself and striving on in spite of them both for yourself making sure you are committed to the new role and walk the Path you undertake in purity and dedication.<br />
<br />haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-26406407108945927442013-05-28T22:24:00.000-05:002013-06-10T10:04:47.608-05:00Chinese Sangha in the United States a woman from Iowa ordained in the oldest lineage<span style="font-size: large;">It is very likely you haven't met me or anyone like me, but if you live in Ames, Iowa you have surely seen me. I am a fully ordained Bhikshuni a Buddhist trained in the oldest form of Buddhism in the USA, Chinese Buddhism. It's rather remarkable that I have not seen much about Chinese Buddhism in the USA when it's been here the longest and built some of the largest temples and monasteries in the United States.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As of right now I'm not the visually stunning photographic stock image of the Buddhist nun you see in your search engines. For one I am white not Chinese ivory but with a hint of spice from 5 to 7 countries of mixed ethnic origin thus not the typical one landed country straight liner most seem to be here in the states. If you were a minority mix you were from the other side of the tracks as far as the majority was concerned in your little town. As you can guess I was in the minority in my town, white, of the wrong clan, not a beauty queen, but a great worker, a happy woman, a risk taker, and adventurous soul. I did what most have dreamed of, earned my own way, sought experiences and education, went overseas lots of times, was poor my whole life so far, so really the sky's the limit in what you want to achieve in your life, if I can do it on a dime then you surely can!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Iowa is largely Irish, German, Swedish, Finnish, and French with a little Scots, African, Spanish and since the 70s Hmong, Vietnamese, Chinese, Thai, Sri Lankan, Indian, Singaporean, Filipino, Cambodian, Burmese, Korean, Japanese, and many more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am very orthodox in my Buddhist views even while here in Iowa. I live simply, and am not afraid to use technology, as I strongly feel that it's important to accord with the times we live in and not get hung up in trying to live the way they did in 300 BCE India. I am not alone in this, already other masters besides myself have long since be on the technology wave as it has emerged. It is true to my nature to be so, for I am a curious woman, well-educated, diligent, studious, artistic, and very dedicated to the Vinaya and the pursuit of translations of the Chinese Mahayana Tripitaka in the Taisho Edition. I want it translated completely before I die. And I won't die until that is completely done.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I respect my ordination and the robes I receive I wear gladly. I received ordination in the Chinese tradition thus have Chinese robes. They happen to be from the Tang dynasty in style and are very comfortable. I do indeed favor this style as they are very practical. Daily wear is a type of loose shirt and long loose pants, then over that is a long vest or longer shirt. This is preserve modesty for men and women both wear the same according to the Vinaya guidelines for Sangha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm not repressed except by those who seek to repress Buddhism, slot women in traditional roles in Buddhism (Western ppl do this alot) and I always walk in freedom. I find those ordained in active 2 - part Sanghas do indeed uphold their precepts and conduct with grace and maturity while those with 1-part Sangha (only monks) do not do their robes justice regarding women being ordained in their tradition. Most of the women underneath the rule of the 1-part Sangha do not achieve the same degree of education and are stuck in their householder mode of thinking due to lack of cultural and role models to emulate from women in robes. To these women I would invite them to consider a proper 2-part Sangha community to train themselves so they too can walk in freedom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I encourage women to seek the supportive path of the 2-part Sangha as the Buddha set the rules for this. The lack of support for women in just 1-part Sangha is a significant barrier to progress for women to join the the full Sangha. In modern times we must deal with things responsibly and realistically. </span><br />
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haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-24141080145907725202013-04-06T11:17:00.002-05:002013-04-06T14:38:59.380-05:00Fakers in the Sangha how to spot one it's really hard for us tooBuddha set forth clear rules on who is and who is not a Sangha member. He started with a simple command of acceptance Ehi Bhikkhu or Ehi Bhikkhuni meaning "Come here my Sakya man disciple, Come here my Sakya woman disciple" then because of Sangha members who raped, went in public naked, or were drunk or violated some local laws, or did something criminal or disgusting, he had to keep adding rules from 5 basic ones now often given to lay Buddhists for guidance in their lives to the 250 of Bhikshus and 348 for Bhikshunis. <br />
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The big 5 are do not kill (refers to a human being), do not steal, do not lie, do not have sex, do not take intoxicants. This is the usual order for lay people.<br />
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What a defeat means is that that person is no longer immediately on the act and in this lifetime allowed to be calling themselves Bhikshu or Bhikshuni or represent themselves as such, neither can they wear robes or retain the rights of a Bhikshu or Bhikshuni anywhere in this world. They cannot be re-ordained either later if they reform their ways or remain celibate. They cannot with the intention to ordain again join any Buddhist tradition new or old; or cross into another countries place with the purpose to ordain again. There is no fix to it, anywhere. This means if a Mahayana or Theravada defeat then they cannot go to the other tradition to be ordained. This means they cannot join a non-Vinaya group like Japanese traditions and be ordained a married priest nor be a monastic there. They must disrobe and leave the community in lay clothes. They remain Buddhists lay man or lay woman for the rest of their life if they choose too.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fffeff; color: #111111; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Four special categories of bhikkhunis/bhikkhus exempted from a penalty under this rule: any bhikshu/bhikshuni who is insane, possessed by spirits, delirious with pain, or the first offender(s). </span><span style="background-color: #fffeff; color: #111111; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">These four categories are exempted from penalties under nearly all of the rules, although the first offender for each rule is exempted only for the <b>one time</b> he acted in such a way as to provoke the Buddha into formulating the rule.</span><span style="background-color: #fffeff; color: #111111; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<b>In the Dharmgupta 4 part Bhikshuni precepts it's written this way:</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. If a bhikshuni acts on sexual desires, violates, impure conduct, and even with domestic animals is a bhikshuni parajika and together cannot live.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. If a bhikshuni, gathers in a city, if in an empty place, not given, cherishes stealing, intends to take; Follows and actually steals things. If by a king, if a king's official places or catches. If killed, if bound, if banished: "You are thief! You fool! You are none to know." If a bhikshuni not given, takes, is a bhikshuni does thus: is a bhikshuni parajika and together cannot live.</span><br />
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four factors.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #fffeff; color: #111111; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">Stealing under any circumstances is always an offense. However, the severity of the offense depends on another factor, which is —</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18.390625px;"><i>This is one that is vastly regulated examples, rules and intentions, living and the dead, pretas, and spirits, devas and the attached deceased; friends and acquantances permissions and implied, permanent and temporary; and the commentary and exceptions are lengthy.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. If a bhikshuni intends oneself, holds severs a human life, if holds a knife aids together with people. If admires death, praises death, and urges death: "Arrgh! People use this evil life for! rather death no life!" Acts accordingly to her mind's idea, countless helps out, admires death, praises death, urges death. This is a bhikshuni parajika and together cannot live.</span><br />
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five factors, all of which must be present for there to be the full offense.</div>
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<span style="background-color: #fffeff; color: #111111; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">A bhikkhu who kills a "non-human being" — a yakkha, nāga, or peta — or a devatā (this last is in the Commentary) incurs a thullaccaya. According to the Commentary, when a spirit possesses a human being or an animal, it can be exorcised in either of two ways. The first is to command it to leave: This causes no injury to the spirit and results in no offense. The second is to make a doll out of flour paste or clay and then to cut off various of its parts (!). If one cuts off the hands and feet, the spirit loses its hands and feet. If one cuts off the head, the spirit dies, which is grounds for a thullaccaya.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fffeff; color: #111111; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rules entailing thullaccaya offenses are found in the Sutta Vibhaṅga as derivatives from pārājika and saṅghādisesa rules; in the Khandhakas, as stand-alone rules. The fact that they are scattered throughout the Canon with no special arrangement or section of their own makes it difficult to determine whether one has committed an offense of this class. NOTE these require confession to good bhikshu or if a bhikshuni to another good bhikshuni.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc1/bmc1.ch12.html">http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc1/bmc1.ch12.html</a> this is an appendix to the Buddhist Monastic Code from Access to Insight website: <br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">61. Should any bhikkhu intentionally deprive an animal of life, it is to be confessed.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">There are five factors for the full offense here.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">1) Object: a living animal.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">2) Perception: One perceives it to be a living animal.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">3) Intention: One knowingly, consciously, deliberately, and purposefully wants to cause its death.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">4) Effort: whatever one does with the purpose of causing it to die.</span><br />
<span style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;">5) Result: It dies as a result of one's action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. If a bhikshuni really not actually knows. Self admires praises says: "I gained exceptional dharma. I already become an Arhat whose wisdom surpasses dharma. I know correctly. I see correctly." Later at a different time. If asked, if ignored wishes to seek purity intentionally, doing correctly say: "All elders, I really not know, not see, and said I know, I see. False lies talking nonsense." except achieves a slow highly developed (ability) is a bhikshuni parajika and together cannot live.</span><br />
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The full offense under this rule has four factors.<br />
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1) Object: a superior human state.<br />
2) Perception: One perceives it as not present in oneself.<br />
3) Effort: One addresses a human being, mentioning that state in connection with oneself — either the state as within oneself, or oneself as in the state —<br />
4) Intention: with the intent to misrepresent the truth, motivated by an evil desire.<br />
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NOTE: Natural states are ok, confusion about an attainment is ok, lack of education, superstition, cultural customs and the case by case basis for the claim or practice that is noticed by other bhikshuni is not a violation of this. Because there is no intention to violate. Modern cases refer to gaining extra sensory ability whether it's real or mistaken, reading minds, knowing past lives, meeting the demands of Buddhists who would otherwise not learn from masters is ok but a violation if it is all faked. No ruling on making money off of abilities, except for already stated in the Vinaya.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">5. If a bhikshuni, an impure mind together with an impure mind man, from armpit already down, knee above, bodies mutually touching. If caught rubbing. If holding hands. If returns. If upper touches. If raises. If lowers. If catches. If presses down, is a bhikshuni parajika, not together to live. It is due to a body mutually touching reason.</span><br />
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A continuation of Parajika 1 in more detail. The intention is to give in to desire, sexual attraction being mutual. This means the woman has not given up her desire for sex and its acting on it. Thus it is a defeat.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">6. If a bhikshuni, an impure mind, knows a man's impure mind; accepting grabs hands, seizes robes, enters a screened place, together standing, together talking, together walking, or bodies mutually lean on, or together dates. Is a bhikshuni parajika and together cannot live.</span><br />
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This is also related to parajika 1. The case is dating, being seen dating, as a couple so the people viewing the bhikshuni with the man will see them as a couple walking in public, talking in public, going into a screened place even standing, watching them seeing them lean on each other like a husband and wife or a boyfriend and girlfriend. Women who have neglected their mindfulness finding themselves seeking out men, being in the company of men, making comments about the beauty or ugliness of men, are also at risk here. Comments to a family member to shore them up and build their confidence are not a part here, but still can't be in the company of the menfolk without attracting gossip.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">7. If a Bhikshuni, knows a Bhikshuni violated a parajika, not self confessed, not pure assembly. If in an unusual time; this bhikshuni or life when her life ends, or among assembly raises, or retires a path, or enters a place path group, after does rightly say: "I foretold similar to be thus as a right violation." Is a bhikshuni parajika, together cannot live. Covered concealed serious fault by intent.</span><br />
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This matter means that if knowing a bhikshuni in or outside your own community or even in your community has a violated a parajika then that bhikshuni is suspect but not in violation if she is unclear about the matter at hand. All good bhikshuni should be aware of this difference. Knowing someone who is a parajika breaker is not good for your credibility either. I regularly check my friends on Facebook for appropriateness. Sometimes with a large number of fans or friends it's really hard to catch it when a violation occurs.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">8. If a Bhikshuni knows a Bhikshu Sangha to do conduct. As a dharma, as regulation, as a Buddha actually taught not comply , not repentant, the Sangha not yet grant act together to live, yet to comply, all Bhikshuni speak saying: "Elder sisters, this Bhikshu no Sangha place conduct, as dharma, as law, as Buddha actually taught. Not comply not repentant, Sangha not yet grant act together to live, as did not comply." thus bhikshuni warn this bhikshuni when persists not given up. This bhikshuni must and even 2nd, 3rd warnings, order gives up this mistake. And even 3 warnings, gives up she is good. If she doesn't give up. It is a bhikshuni parajika not together to live. Violation follows conduct intent.</span><br />
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<b>Really simple, stop hanging out with the bad boys. You Bhikshuni who support a violated Bhikshu are considered warned now upon reading this blog. I'm checking your Facebook timeliness periodically, unfortunately it takes me time to figure stuff out, I like you, do err on the side of caution. If you hide you can be found. Don't worry about it if you are not in the wrong here.</b><br />
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A bhikkhu who violates any of these four pārājika rules is automatically no longer a bhikkhu. There is no need for him to go through a formal ceremony of disrobing, for the act of violating the rule is an act of disrobing in and of itself. As each of the rules states, he is no longer in affiliation, which the word-analysis defines as no longer having a single transaction (i.e., he can no longer participate in any Community meetings), no longer having a single recitation (i.e., he can no longer participate in the uposatha (see <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc2/bmc2.ch15.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1e3478; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BMC2, Chapter 15</a>)), no longer having a training in common with the bhikkhus.<br />
Even if a bhikkhu who has violated any of these rules continues <b>to pretend to be a bhikkhu</b>, he does not really count as one; as soon as the facts are known he must be expelled from the Saṅgha. <b>He can never again properly ordain as a bhikkhu in this life</b>. If he <i>tries to ordain</i> in a Community that does not know of his offense, <b>his ordination is invalid</b>, and he <b>must be expelled </b>as soon as the truth is found out.<br />
The Commentary to <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc1/bmc1.ch04.html#Pr1" style="border: 0px; color: #1e3478; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pr 1</a> maintains that he is allowed to "go forth" as a novice, but because the Vibhaṅga does not clearly support this position, not all Communities accept it.<br />
<b><u>Ignorance of these rules does not exempt an offender from the penalty</u></b>, which is why the Buddha ordered that they be taught to each new bhikkhu as soon as possible after ordination (Mv.I.78.2-5). Because the rules cover a number of cases that are legal in present-day society (e.g., <i>recommending abortion</i>, proving to oneself how supple one has become through yoga by inserting one's penis in one's mouth) or <i>that are common practice among people who see nothing wrong with flirting with the edges of the law </i>(e.g., hiding an article subject to customs duties when entering a country), it is especially important to inform each new bhikkhu of the rules' full implications from the very start.<br />
If a bhikkhu suspects that he has committed a pārājika, he should immediately inform a senior bhikkhu well versed in the rules. The way the senior bhikkhu should handle the case is well-illustrated by an incident reported in the Commentary to <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc1/bmc1.ch04.html#Pr2" style="border: 0px; color: #1e3478; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pr 2</a>: A king together with an enormous crowd once went to worship the Great Stūpa at a certain monastery in Sri Lanka. Among the crowd was a visiting bhikkhu from the South of the country who was carrying an expensive roll of cloth. The commotion of the event was so great that he dropped the cloth, was unable to retrieve it, and soon gave it up for lost. One of the resident bhikkhus happened to come across it and, desiring to steal it, quickly put it away before the owner might see it. Eventually, of course, he became tormented by guilt and went to <b>the resident Vinaya expert </b>to admit a pārājika and disrobe.<br />
The <b>Vinaya expert</b>, though, wouldn't let him disrobe until he had found the owner of the cloth and inquired about it more fully. Eventually, after a long search, the bhikkhu was able to track down the original owner at a monastery back South, who told him that at the time of the theft he had given the cloth up for lost and had abandoned all mental attachment for it. Thus, as the cloth was ownerless, the resident bhikkhu had incurred not a pārājika, but simply some dukkaṭas for the preliminary efforts with intention to steal.<br />
<i><b>This example shows several things: the great thoroughness with which a senior bhikkhu should investigate a possible pārājika, the compassion he should show to the offender, and the fact that the offender should be given the benefit of the doubt wherever possible: He is to be considered innocent until the facts prove him guilty.</b></i><br />
There are, however, cases of another sort, in which a <u>bhikkhu commits a pārājika and refuses to acknowledge the fact</u>. If <u>his fellow bhikkhus see, hear, or have any suspicions that this has happened, they are duty-bound to bring up the issue with him.</u> If they are not satisfied with his assertions of his innocence, the case becomes <u>an accusation issue</u>, which must be resolved in line with the procedures outlined in <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc1/bmc1.ch05.html#Sg8" style="border: 0px; color: #1e3478; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sg 8</a> and <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc1/bmc1.ch11.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1e3478; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Chapter 11</a>.<br />
Finally, the <i>Commentary concludes its discussion of the pārājikas</i> by noticing that there are altogether <b>24</b> — <b>eight actual</b>, <i>twelve equivalent, and four derived</i> — pārājikas for bhikkhus and bhikkhunīs.<br />
The eight actual pārājikas are:<br />
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the four for bhikkhus (also observed by the bhikkhunīs), and</li>
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<i>The twelve equivalent pārājikas</i> include the eleven disqualified types who should not be ordained as bhikkhus in the first place. <b>If they happen to be ordained, their ordination is invalid; once they are found out they must be expelled for life</b> (Mv.I.61-68; see <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc2/bmc2.ch14.html" style="border: 0px; color: #1e3478; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">BMC2, Chapter 14</a> for details). They are —<br />
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a "non-human" being, (this includes nāgas, petas, devas, and yakkhas),</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a hermaphrodite,</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a person who poses as a bhikkhu without having been ordained,</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a bhikkhu who has ordained in another religion without first giving up his status as a bhikkhu,</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a person who has murdered his father,</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a person who has murdered his mother,</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a person who has murdered an arahant,</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a person who has sexually molested a bhikkhunī,</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a person who has maliciously injured a Buddha to the point of causing him to bleed, and</li>
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<li style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a person who has dishonestly caused a schism in the Saṅgha, knowing or suspecting that his position was contrary to the Dhamma-Vinaya.</li>
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<b>These eleven equivalent pārājikas apply to bhikkhunīs as well.</b><br />
The twelfth equivalent pārājika, which applies only to bhikkhunīs, is the <b>case where a bhikkhunī leaves the Bhikkhunī Saṅgha and takes up the role of a lay woman</b> (Cv.X.26.1). Unlike the bhikkhus, <b>the bhikkhunīs have no formal procedure for disrobing.</b><u> If they leave the Saṅgha, they are not allowed to reordain for the rest of this lifetime.</u><br />
In addition to the twenty actual and equivalent pārājikas, the Commentary gives separate listing to the four <i>anulomika</i> (<b>derived</b>) pārājikas, which are actually four cases included under <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc1/bmc1.ch04.html#Pr1" style="border: 0px; color: #1e3478; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pr 1</a>: the bhikkhu with a supple back who sticks his penis in his mouth, the bhikkhu with a long penis who inserts it into his anus, the bhikkhu who performs oral intercourse with someone else, and the bhikkhu who receives anal intercourse.<u> Of these, three can be extrapolated to apply to bhikkhunīs</u>, too. Why the Commentary lists these cases as separate pārājikas is hard to tell, until it's simply to ensure that these permutations of Pr 1 don't get overlooked. <u style="background-color: #f4cccc;">Still, the entire list of 24 is important</u>, for under the rules dealing with falsely accusing another bhikkhu of having committed a pārājika (<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc1/bmc1.ch05.html#Sg8" style="border: 0px; color: #1e3478; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Sg 8</a> & <a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc1/bmc1.ch05.html#Sg9" style="border: 0px; color: #1e3478; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9</a>) or the rule dealing with concealing another bhikkhu's pārājika offense (<a href="http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/thanissaro/bmc1/bmc1.ch08-7.html#Pc64" style="border: 0px; color: #1e3478; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.399999618530273px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Pc 64</a>), the <b>Commentary defines <i>pārājika</i> as including equivalent and derived pārājikas as well.</b></blockquote>
Inserted material is from Access to Insight website. Parajika section in Chapter 4 of the Buddhist Monastic Code I; the material I inserted is only a little bit from this entire section. It bears saying that it is better to read the Buddhist Monastic Code I and Buddhist Monastic Code II for more information and for a complete understanding of this matter.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember those who are Bhikshuni or Bhikshu </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">living in solitude away from Sangha but not intentionally disrobing are still considered pure.</span> It is a fault on the Bhikshu or Bhikshuni that </b> views them or claims them as defeated or disrobed because they live alone or in retreat or are retired. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Sangha in Buddha's time his students even lived in solitude and it's always been the case due to financial costs or lack of community space or geography or even personal preferences where Sangha would live on their own. </span> Records left to us by ancient masters and their communities point out those that live to high achievement while living on their own and remaining pure. And exceptions are made for those that need to be working and having to adhere to dress codes in the workplace then returning home to wear robes are in fact still in good standing. There is no rule against such living only rules guiding one in how to live in community and how to live outside it. <br />
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Take heart dear brothers and sister in purity. If you find you are the object of derision by another Sangha member just get on Facebook, I will find you someone you can trust to help you decide the matter. <span style="font-size: large;"> If the matter includes one of these then you are duty bound to seek an elder who is expert in the Vinaya and who is willing to hear you and you should observe the advice given. </span> If you are in defeat admit it <span style="font-size: large;">let it be investigated to see if the it is truly the case</span> and if it is so, then take the recommended action but please do wait for the review and the process to be complete, particularly if you are a bhikshuni. <br />
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We are not to attract local gossip, being careful to deport ourselves properly in public, we are to seek out other Sangha regularly, asking elders for advice often. It is also clear that you can go outside your own community or tradition to receive good advice from Vinaya masters. Do so, it matters. It clarifies and makes you more supported than if you were sitting in a chair wondering about a mater.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remain in contact with other Bhikshuni or Bhikshu in good standing who are in solitude or residing in communities. </span> This is clear. <span style="font-size: large;">No one can be accused of a parajika or other offenses for where they live and/or how they have to survive as long as they are not breaking the the laws or their Vinaya precepts given to them. </span> Remember dear Sangha a place or robes does not make you pure<br />
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if you observe them in your daily life continuously that makes you pure.haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-30870751838085344222013-03-27T10:35:00.000-05:002013-03-27T10:35:51.808-05:00Surangama Sutra translator notes<br />
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">The Surangama Sutra is from the esoteric section of the
Taisho Edition of the Mahayana Tripitaka.
Esoteric teachings are often misinterpreted as the secret
teachings. It is not secret; it is deep teaching
that requires much commitment to study. I
do not believe in secrets or promoting them in Buddhism. I
strive for clear teachings and translations.
In the Tantra vehicle there are teachings for practitioners and clear
instructions to keep their practice private in order to focus on the practice and
to avoid fame. Buddha dharma should be
open, clear and available to anyone who cares to read it, all of it. All collections of Buddha’s teachings,
including commentaries are not private and should be open to all. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Arial Unicode MS";">In my opinion and as well as others, sometimes labels of ‘secret’
are offered to cover up the fact of lost scholarship, centuries of protecting selfishly inherited
teachings to remain in power, poor study, a serious lack of access to moral,
sane, even of qualified teachers there gets to be a label of ‘secret’ to help
the teacher save face while they are trying to avoid the dreaded “I don’t know”. Then with time this mistakenly is taken for
precedent and the tradition with a perfectly prefab type answer becomes the
only rote response instead of encouraging investigation and growth in the
practitioner. There are teachings that
are publicly offered and practices carried on that have produced many positive
effects. They are known far and wide as
beneficial and talked about openly, this <i>Surangama
Mantra</i> is such a teaching in any language it is written in and folks it’s
been written in many languages just not in English until now. This work has been a part of Mahayana practices
in China, Vietnam, Korea, and Japan and recited in native languages for
centuries and it’s about time in our short 160 years history in the USA that we
have standard Mahayana daily recitation texts in English. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Sanctity of the language versus clarity in understanding.</i> There is no mandate for sanctity of language in traditional Buddhism, so why demand one in the West? It is ordered by the Buddha himself to adapt to the country in which his Sangha (meaning monastics bhikshu and bhikshuni only) travels to and resides. <br />
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<i>It’s a power trip from wrong view.</i> Those that demand a blind devotion to a language as a vehicle of enlightenment or access to Buddha’s teachings are perverting Buddha dharma. Devotion to language as ‘official’ to to legitimize a particular sect or teacher limits another being’s access to sutras, esteemed teachings of ancient and modern dharma masters. Thus stunting their growth and development in the pursuit of enlightenment. <br />
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<i>Lack of common language limits successful understanding.</i> I have seen, heard and read about the constant struggle of laity to achieve success in their own practices because they did not have a common language with a dharma master or wat, vihara, temple or center in which they sought to study and practice Buddha dharma. I have first hand knowledge of ordained Sangha that do not know their adopted culture or it’s language and are stuck as a servant, living years at a lower level of practice than what they can achieve had they been aware of detailed teachings. <br />
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These Westerners and some Asians have little or limited access to their own dharma master’s meetings and teachings due to poor translators or no translators. Since they do not have any notable level of training they often seek outside of Buddhism to survive in work or in other religious practices or faiths beyond Buddhism, even if they have been a novice of 30 years or fully ordained for 5 years. If they do not have competancyat least one of these areas: listening, speaking, writing the temple language or even if they are not pursuing a line of Buddhist study and just seem to be taking up space then it keeps them at the ‘newbie’ level. They are the same as a tourist would be in their own understanding and ability or lack of ability to teach Buddha dharma with any degree of skill.<br />
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This seriously stunts the progress of Western practitioners and students of Buddhism. It’s a joke on sincere people being perpetuated by repetition and desire for gain or control, the joke can be on you based upon your own limited views and blindsidedness. You need to support financially qualified Western monastics in their advancement of training rather than send your dollars or euros overseas. Support the Western monastics improvement in their level of training, ask them how they train, if they have language ability in their own tradition; if that is missing they are not accomplished much except in reading trendy Buddhist books or by their own limitations in their personal practice for they try to fit in somehow to fads, trends and other religions. The fact is most of the Western monastics have householding duties and very limited monastic training; unless they are trained in these traditions: Chinese Buddhism, Vietnamese Buddhism, and Korean Buddhism. <br />
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The training available to Chinese and Korea is also available to sincere Westerners with competant translators being available but the training to Westerners in Vietnamese Buddhism is very limited in access to the Sangha and sometimes to access to higher level masters who can speak English and outside of Vietnam as it’s government does not allow Westerners to train in their temples or ordain there. <br />
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<i>Western women seeking training must be diligent.</i> Those going after trendy sects covered in the Buddhist news places like the newly formed Theravada nuns or the Tibetan communities will not find much stability or standard training or even qualified training dharma masters. Strong patriarchal leanings in Thai, Sri Lankan, and Tibetan culture limit women severely even if they achived the full ordination as bhikshuni. <br />
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For women interested in quality well-established training the best is from the training nuns in Taiwan and the training nuns in Korea. I am noting ‘training nuns’ meaning they are qualified to teach women to be come sramaneri, siksamana, and bhikshuni. Their level of Vinaya education, understanding of Buddha dharma and skill as teachers are derived from their dedication to serious training from their own time spent training as sramaneri to bhikshuni. <br />
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haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-57315352023024799762013-01-03T15:46:00.001-06:002013-01-04T00:11:13.960-06:00New Indiegogo Campaign Calm Clarity Temple<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Feel free to click on our new indiegogo campaign <a href="http://igg.me/p/290050/x/813234" target="_blank">Indiegogo fundraising for Calm Clarity Temple</a> , we are trying to raise funds for a down payment for a purchase of land or a home for housing nuns who want to translate the Chinese Mahayana Tripitaka or study Chinese Buddhism. This temple will serve the Asian American community and the general mid west community who is interested in Buddhism, either through practice or curiosity<br />
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This is a traditional nunnery following the Chinese Buddhism within the context of our Western culture, Iowa flavored with context, primary to it's mission is translation and secondary is service to the public. Daily religious services, along with Buddhist traditional services with the Chinese lunar calendar will be used as the foundation. <br />
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Daily life is vegetarian with egg and cheese allowed. No offerings from laity will be refused, as long as the food is safe and not rotten. Fresh fruits, vegetables, donations of staples of flour, sugar, baking supplies, especially vital wheat gluten used for primary protein, along with low salt soy products are welcomed. links to standard USA sources for vegan and vegetarian Buddhist products will be listed shortly.<br />
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Calm Clarity Temple now has a simpler Chinese name. 安定寺 An Ding Si. Of course it may change to something else, but since this is a simpler translation and an easier way for non Chinese to pronounce it, it may just be the permanent name in Chinese.<br />
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安定<br />
āndìng- stable / quiet / settled / stabilize / maintain / stabilized / calm and orderly<br />
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ān安<br />
peaceful, tranquil, quiet<br />
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dìng定<br />
decide, settle, fix<br />
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sì - Buddhist temple, temple, mosque, government office (old)<br />
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This photo is from our Sangha gathering in Sacramental CA at the City of Dharma Realm in 2011. This is a Chinese nunnery founded by the late founding master Ven. Hsuan Hua and the monastics of the Sagely City of 10,000 Buddhas.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Americans and residents around the world all are Sangha, the flavor of Calm Clarity will reflect the tolerance of various traditions but our foundation is firmly set upon our ancestral heritage based in Chinese Buddhism. To honor this we will follow Chinese services, style, robes, decor, and food but English will remain the core of communication and dharma talks, all services will be in English with some alternate Chinese services if requested.</td></tr>
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<br />haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-70654840169849766262012-12-05T17:01:00.000-06:002012-12-05T18:04:33.482-06:00Calm Clarity Temple Named in Iowa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The quest for a temple name has been settled here in Iowa. Calm Clarity Temple is the name for the temporary location here in Ames at my apartment with use of my community room for large events. The reason I chose this name after asking for input is that it is quite overwhelming to be the one to pick a name that will live on long after I'm gone and to be honest it has to sound good over the phone to the public.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Calm Clarity </span>these are attributes that I myself have been told that I have. These are desirable attributes for living a quality life. In fact these are the attributes you need to progress and train with Buddhist methods if you want to achieve nirvana. These 2 attributes "calm" and "clarity" will serve future Sangha residents and members who attend the temple as guiding principles.<br />
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安 an - content, calm, still, quiet, safe, secure, in good health, to find a place for, to install, to fix, to fit, to bring a charge against sb, to pacify, security, safety, peace, ampere.<br />
靜 jing - still, calm, quiet, not moving<br />
安定 anding - stable, quiet, settled, stabilized, calm and orderly<br />
安寧anning - peaceful, tranquil, calm, composed, free from worry<br />
心静xinjing - tranquil, calm<br />
安静anjing - quiet, peaceful, calm<br />
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明 鏡 mingjing - mirror (as in a metaphor for sth beautiful, bright and flat - such as a lake or <b>sth that provides clarity and insight</b>)<br />
明晰 mingxi - clarity/lucid<br />
智 zhi - knowledge, wisdom<br />
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To pick a Chinese name using these attributes I would pick 安明鏡寺 An Minjing Si Calm Mirror Temple.<br />
It's the closest to my intended meaning in terms of function of the temple.<br />
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This temple will be dedicated to translation of the Buddha dharma to English. My present project is the Mahayana Tripitaka Collection from the Taisho Edition.This collection is unique in that it has all the extent schools included including an esoteric division which I was intrigued to learn that esoteric practices originated in India and were carried into China when Buddhism spread it's influence there, this collection has many of the masters including commentaries; it also contains the complete Pala Tipitaka, the 4 abhidharma collections as well as Mahayana collections, the Vinaya collection is inclusive of all the schools.<br />
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It's been rarely touched and translations exist in scholars treatises and to my knowledge none of their works are online and free to read. I hope that changes with this temple.<br />
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<a href="http://buddhafolk.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/calm-clarity-temple/" target="_blank">Buddhafolk Blog has more on this with more about the mission statement and goals</a><br />
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Following a brief discussion on Facebook, I've gone back to my first choice for the Chinese name of the temple, 安定寺 Anding it has various supportive meanings and it exists already overseas in various countries. Since Iowa is known for stability, calm, and peace as a state environment that is good for living and families, this is a worthy link to the natural environment. A very auspicious trait too.haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-77330036519332275572012-11-27T15:35:00.001-06:002012-11-27T15:35:48.887-06:00à bas le ciel: The Only Statistic for Buddhism in the USA<a href="http://a-bas-le-ciel.blogspot.com/2012/07/only-statistic-for-buddhism-in-usa.html?spref=bl">à bas le ciel: The Only Statistic for Buddhism in the USA</a>: There are not many statistics worth knowing for Buddhism in the U.S.A., and I would like to offer a few notes on some of the limitations ...<br />
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Well I hope everyone has a chance to read this slop from ARIS. Not even one ethnic Buddhist or Buddhists of non White origins were interviewed. How skewed is that! It's plain embarrassing.haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-67683413487170657532012-11-27T15:23:00.001-06:002012-11-27T15:23:39.601-06:00à bas le ciel: Religious Identity in Taiwan 2001-2011<a href="http://a-bas-le-ciel.blogspot.com/2012/08/religious-identity-in-taiwan-2001-2011.html?spref=bl">à bas le ciel: Religious Identity in Taiwan 2001-2011</a>: The statistics on religion in Taiwan are extremely interesting, but my initial warning (and final conclusion) here would be the standard ...haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-1706803748356833612012-11-27T15:02:00.001-06:002012-11-27T15:02:19.520-06:00GuideStar Exchange Reports for Bhikshuni<a href="http://www.guidestar.org/organizations/20-4354893/bhikshuni.aspx#.ULUqTKdRT3U.blogger">GuideStar Exchange Reports for Bhikshuni</a>haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-24194291036089867722012-11-27T00:59:00.000-06:002012-11-27T01:03:21.029-06:00Why are the Chinese Buddhists and rest of Asians ignored by Western Buddhists ... or are they??<br />
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In response to Flower Ornament Depository blog post: Why is Tibetan Buddhism more poplular?</div>
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5 weeks ago the blog showed up in my feed today when I looked through my subscribed blogs.</div>
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I'm a mid-western woman and a Chinese Buddhist
bhikshuni. I do believe your article not
based on realistic numbers or any numbers as you stated in the first paragraph.
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I do not see what you are claiming. Just because something is marketed in
Shambala Sun, Tricylce, and Buddhadharma does not make it as well-known as you
claim. TB Westerners are really good
business people. It is remarkable how ad
orentated these rags are, little content in them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I do not agree with you.
Chinese Buddhism is about 160 years old in the USA and came with the
Chinese immigrants working on the USA railroads. TB is relatively new since the rush of
English print books in the mid-90s only featured Japanese Buddhism and Tibetan
Buddhism by said rags. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Why we are not seen, maybe we are not desirable maybe not as
marketable. US Media and religious organizations claiming diversity does not
include us in all its so-called coverage of religion. It is because somehow
Western people lump Chinese Buddhism as part of the hated-CC; we are to be
hated for a government we are not a part of overseas and never were. Chinese does not equal Commies. But somehow that get played up in the
politics of those engaging in persecution of one ethnic group that followed
Buddhism for centuries. Our order survives because we understand Buddhist
culture, endure to save it, uphold our precepts, struggle for time to cultivate
and study on our own. We have always
mixed different Buddhist traditions in our temples, all forms. Most western
people don’t realize that, if they did take the time to really understand
Buddhist culture from a Sangha member’s view then they would really treasure
their time in temples everywhere.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Real advanced TB practice requires fluent Tibetan, high
level of reading skills in Tibetan Sanskrit, and great deal of time and
patience waiting so you can gain access to a highly achieved master who can
actually teach you well. These masters
are in demand and do not have time to dummy down for those too lazy to do
this. Most of the TB monks and very few
of the TB nuns have any degree of traditional TB monastic education; mostly
they are rim sitters which is sad for they cannot attain much levels at
all. Lots of this has to do with lack of
language ability, for you can’t train if you can’t understand. Interpreters cannot give you the details,
they are too pressed for time. I’m fluent in Chinese so I know this first hand,
at dharma talks you must be able to understand the high level masters very
detailed instructions or you gain nothing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Tolerance of other cultures should be given to understand
how to excel in your Buddhist practice. It is not fair to say our Chinese
Buddhist communities demand conformity from Western people, they do not. They say over and over again, we do not want
you to think we want you to be Chinese when you come into our temple we want
you to be who you are, American. Every
temple says this even FGS, DDM, CTTB.
They have all races and all countries people in their communities, fully
accepted and fully ordained. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Realize there are Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Thai,
Burmese, and many more including Japanese (non Vinaya); there are new movements
too here in the USA that are all colors of people. The white elite it seems that is who you talk
about most, I think maybe so; is such a small number as not to matter in the
data about Buddhism here in the USA. In
all these temples from all these countries there are Americans who take refuge,
a few ordain and you got way more than that 12 that you say you eyeballed when
you visited 2 places. Please let me know
if you want to visit more diverse places now, I’ll send a recommendation for
you ahead of your visit. I say start with CTTB and then visit Thich Nhat Hahn’s
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haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-60677798951202962552012-11-07T16:00:00.001-06:002012-11-07T16:02:29.767-06:00Inspire u? Y u?<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me, Ven Hong Yang, Bhikshuni</td></tr>
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Much of what I write is very earthy, sometimes it's not all that easy to accept basic dirt. So I all I can say is this, living is great as a Sangha. I am happy and in my element as a bhikshuni. It has definitely felt like fitting into a glove hand tailored just for me.<br />
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I love my robes and respect my tradition, I am grateful for this life that led me to take full ordination as a bhikshuni. I do not doubt the choice. I do not feel sad ever about uphold precepts, it's easy. I do not feel deprived of human affection for I get loads of attention. <br />
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I became a bhikshuni in the Chinese Mahayana tradition and that is only because I have an affinity for Chinese culture, have family that is Chinese and long history with families and friends of Chinese origin. I'm not a commie (geese isn't that obvious!) and didn't magically turn into Chinese like many who on objected to my trying to save Tibetan monks from self-immolation accused me of being (how stupid is that!). I don't have to respect such monks, all Westerners full of polluted thinking.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My daughter Liz</td></tr>
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I am grateful for my choices because I got loads of benefits from getting closer and being around my growing daughter to see her now almost 21 this month, and so happy! Even though my tonsure temple was not the best for me, it was good that she was allowed to stay with me there and I kept in touch with her loads more than being in Iowa or California. Because of that she grew healthy and strong. And I saw it. I am so proud of her! She joined right in and even when it was difficult for her or uncomfortable, she kept happy and got a good grounding in Buddhist life in a temple.<br />
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It is always inspiring for me to visit with other Buddhists, I am isolated here in Iowa from my Buddhist community, so I get on Facebook now almost daily. I love it, I get to visit with monks and nuns from all kinds of traditions in Buddhism. That is so precious to me, it helps me and sustains me while here in Iowa.<br />
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Special mention, it's very common for monastics to have pets, mine is Pepper she is a rescued kitten in the first photo, right after having her fixed. And now a hefty fur ball that purrs when she decides you must sit on the couch so she can lay on or near your legs and snooze. I've promised the shelter she is with me for life, and she will be. I want her comfy settled and happy every day too. She snorted when I asked her if she wanted to take refuge in the Buddha and receive 5 precepts, so I took that as a no. Which I have to settle for it is her choice. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pepper at 4 months old and 5 pounds, just after surgery</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pepper now at 13 pounds and 7 years old</td></tr>
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<br />haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-47465900068629711532012-10-30T17:32:00.003-05:002012-10-30T17:32:47.037-05:00New blog for Sangha in USA<a href="http://usasangha.blogspot.com/">http://usasangha.blogspot.com/</a><br />
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I've included some links to some of the largest monasteries in the USA, the <span style="font-size: large;">Hsi Lai Temple</span> the headquarters in the USA for <i>Fo Guang Shan</i> which was founded by Ven. Master Hsing Yun, who promotes traditional Vinaya Sangha and new school called Humanistic Buddhism, it's a very large group that has temples everywhere in the USA. Very good group and well-trained. Great at large crowds and attracts large crowds, lovely tea houses, active well educated and nice Sangha largely bhikshuni and some bhikshu. <b>This is a <i><span style="font-size: large;">closed community</span></i> to outside Sangha</b>, however, if you choose to pursue residency be warned you more often are asked to return to lay life and apply to them for monastic training. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Bhikshuni</span> be warned in the Chinese Buddhist Bhikshuni Sangha it is not normal to return to lay life and expect that you will be accepted again even if you are told to do this, just don't. Many women are treated harshly by resident bhikshuni who try this, <b>most if not all fail </b>and only achieve novice status. I strongly do not recommend anyone doing this at all. I am hoping one day that tolerance for outside traditions and recognition of full ordination of monastics who want to reside within their Sangha will be in their future. Sangha outside their FGS system may visit for very short stays, you will find them friendly and very nice. I count them as my long time friends and ally's.<br />
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I've also included the <span style="font-size: large;">Sagely City of 10,000 Buddhas</span> a totally friendly group of orthodox 2-part Sangha which observes additional teachings of wearing the work robe (5 strip) and the strict segregation of genders on their very large monastery grounds.Everyone there speaks English and it's known for tolerance of both Theravada and Mahayana schools in residence. This is a<i><span style="font-size: large;"> closed community</span></i>. Ven. Master Hsua Hua donated the land for the Theravada monks of the Abhayagiri Monastery to be built and reside. Limits outside Sangha residence to short, very short stays. One day they hope to have enough housing for visiting Sangha who wish to apply for long term stays.<br />
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Chuang Yen Monastery, the <i><span style="font-size: large;">visiting monastic by policy</span></i>. This place has provisions for allowable with permission a 2 week stay at the longest which is unfortunately very, very short. But historically this has served it's purpose as a wandering monastics way place. Very nice area, remote but they have active amount of laity and very good Sangha in residence.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If there are any communities that have open doors to outside Sangha then let us know, it will be shouted from the rooftops (not literally but we will post links or information).</span>haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2561740860112798407.post-48349394621372153482012-10-26T16:30:00.000-05:002012-10-26T16:32:42.225-05:00In response to sufferingToday I read of yet another child's death. Yesterday two children, killed by their nanny. What kind of mind does this? Sorrowing, angry, and full of repetitive rages? These last few months the child murder rate is dangerously rising? What happened to the parents? What happened to their caregivers? What happened to the stranger who grabbed and killed?<br />
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Caring hearts all cry the same.<br />
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I can't logic this out. But I can pray.<br />
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Namo Guanshiyin Pusa<br />
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Please watch over our world's sufferers much closer. Actively assist those children facing violence, protect them. Enable the human's who can act, to act to protect our precious jewels. This is violence is not stopping but it seems to be increasing, aid those haters, angry, sorrowful, regretful, imbalanced, and swiftly calm their minds, enabling them to seek help of a long lasting kind to keep them stable. To those murdered please teach them no revenge, to let go of their sorrow, sense of loss and fear, moving in to their next life or to their heavens let them be at peace. May all sentient beings in the past, present and future benefit from this prayer from this bhikshuni who is caring and thinking of all of them, who is a mother, who was a wife, who was child, who was born into this human realm. May all my ancestors of all my lives, my loves, my children and my children's next lives and families benefit and have full and peaceful lives. Amituofo!<br />
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I bow to Observe World Sound's known as Avalokitasvara Bodhisattva.<br />
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Ven. Hong Yang, Bhikshuni<br />
8th rains October 26 2012.haloshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11847880198481419648noreply@blogger.com0