Bodhi dharma biography of abraham lincoln
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ZEN AND ZEN MASTERS
Bodhidharma 19
Nineteenth Discourse from the series of 20 discourses - Bodhidharma by Osho.
You can listen, download or read all of these discourses on oshoworld.com.
Throughout the sutras, the Buddha tells mortals they can achieve enlightenment by performing such meritorious works as building monasteries, casting statues, burning incense, scattering flowers, lighting eternal lamps, practicing all six periods of the day and night, walking around stupas, observing fasts and worshipping. But if beholding the mind includes all other practices, then such works as these would appear redundant.
The sutras of the Buddha contain countless metaphors. Because mortals have shallow minds and don’t understand anything deep, the Buddha used the tangible to represent the sublime. People who seek blessings by concentrating on external works instead of internal cultivation are attempting the impossible.
What you call a monastery, we call a sangharama, a place of purity
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Lincoln in the Bardo is not your usual ghost story
Lincoln in the Bardo, by renowned American short story writer (and Buddhist) George Saunders, is surely the first major novel to use the Tibetan word bardo in the title. The Lincoln who is in the bardo—the realm between death and rebirth—is Abraham and Mary’s son Willie, who has just died in the White House at the age of eleven. The book is a tragic father-and-son story—Abraham lost in grief, Willie lost in a ghostly and confusing realm—told simultaneously from two points of view: the living and the recently dead. I spoke to George Saunders about this unusual and thought-provoking meditation on love, loss, and the very nature of life and death.
Melvin McLeod: How did the idea for this story come to you?
George Saunders: Many years ago I was driving with my family on Rock Creek Parkway in Washington, and my wife’s cousin pointed up to a graveyard and said that Lincoln’s son Willie had been buried there during Lincoln’s p