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Trusting the Dharma
Six Paramitas, Bodhisattva Vow, Spiritual Path Robert Althouse Six Paramitas, Bodhisattva Vow, Spiritual Path Robert Althouse

Trusting the Dharma

A teaching Joshin Roshi gives in the Six Paramitas: Courage and Grace Under Fire course is to trust the Dharma. The spiritual path need not be religious. It could very well be secular. But the Dharma while including science and physics goes beyond that. The logic of science is that 1 + 1 = 2. In the Dharma, 1 + 1 need not equal 2. It can equal anything because emptiness operates mathematically like infinity. So measurement doesn’t apply. The Dharma is a force-multiplier.

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Shambhala Warrior Prophecy
Zen, Buddhism, Compassion Robert Althouse Zen, Buddhism, Compassion Robert Althouse

Shambhala Warrior Prophecy

“There comes a time when all life on Earth is in danger. At that time great powers have arisen, barbarian powers, and although they waste their wealth in preparations to annihilate each other, they have much in common. Among the things these barbarians have in common are weapons of unfathomable devastation and death and technologies that lay waste to the world. And it is just at this point in our history, when the future of all beings seems to hang by the frailest of threads, that the kingdom of shambhala emerges. Now, you can’t go there because it is not a place. It exists in the hearts and minds of the shambhala warriors….

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