Posts Tagged "anger"

Anger

Anger

Reading at Waimea practice 10/15/2011 A man once cursed the Buddha to his face.  the Buddha only smiled.  The man became even more incensed and asked, “Why don’t you respond?”  The Buddha replied, “If someone refuses a gift, it must be taken back by the one who offered it.” The Buddha then recited this verse: “For those with no anger, how can anger...

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I Have Come Into this World to See

I Have Come Into this World to See

Reading at Anara spa practice 6/29/2011 I have come into this world to see this: The sword drop from men’s hands even at the height of their arc of anger Because we have finally realized there is just one flesh to wound …… I have come into this world to see this: All creatures hold hands as we pass through this miraculous existence we share on the way to even a greater being of...

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