Note sull'episodio
Zen Roshi, Lola McDowell Lee, suggests you look at your life as a story. Is there anything you would change? Though this life is not perfect, you’re probably reasonably comfortable living on this shore. Change is scary.
While many of us are part of a practice group, we really each travel alone on this path. The truth is inside of us. We can’t find it together outside somewhere.
For your travel on this path you have provisions. In Buddhism, they are called the Paramitas, or perfections.
- Giving. This is not necessarily material giving. Sharing of oneself.
- Observing the precepts - discipline as to your ethical conduct.
- Patience
- Diligence
- Meditation
- Wisdom
Patience and diligence on the path might seem like opposites. You can’t just sit there in your m ...