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Two Buddhas is a fresh take on Nichiren Buddhism for the 21st century—warm, curious, and free of dogma.
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Grief Isn't a Mistake: The Order of Care (opens the original)
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A friend asked whether one sentence from my Lion's Roar essay could ever be said to someone who'd just lost his family in a war. The honest answer was no, and it taught me that compassion has an order: see the suffering, acknowledge it's real, hold space, then offer medicine. This episode follows that order from a war zone to our own anxious minds, drawing on the two arrows, the sutra on mindful breathing, Thich Nhat Hanh, Fred Rogers, Viktor Frankl, the Lotus Sutra, and Nichiren. It also includ
When Meditation Makes You Feel Worse (opens the original)
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Meditation has adverse effects, and the research is finally saying so. What almost nobody says is what to do when it happens to the person in front of you. Fourteen centuries ago Zhiyi, the Chinese master who wrote the manual on silent sitting, named this exact situation. Extreme weariness, illness, drowsiness that will not lift, obstacles that displace concentrated mindfulness so the practitioner cannot dispel them. For these he prescribed chanting, and he explained why it works in anatomical r
Does Buddhism Have a Soul? (opens the original)
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In 1278 a woman named Myoho-ama wrote to Nichiren with a question. Her husband was dying. She wanted to know whether chanting was enough — whether what she was doing at his bedside was reaching anything. He died within weeks of the reply. Nobody has ever come to me asking about receptivity and response. They come asking what she asked. And the sole question turns out to be the soul question — which is the trouble, because soul is the one word Buddhism will not give them. This episode looks at fo
One Daimoku Is Enough, and a Million Is Not Enough (opens the original)
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Is chanting really enough? Shouldn't I understand more of this first? Everyone asks it sooner or later. The answer is yes, and that is not the whole answer. This talk sits with a saying that will not resolve: one daimoku is enough, and a million is not enough. One is enough because nothing is missing from it, and nothing is being held back from us. A million is not enough because a life takes a lifetime, and knowing we are on the path is not the same as being done with it. The Buddha kept sittin
To Forget the Breath - To Forget the Breath — first there is a mountain, then there is no mountain (opens the original)
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"Don't think about your breath, just let it come naturally." All right — and how exactly does one do that? It is like being told not to think about a pink elephant. Nothing complex is ever learned whole. I spent years training search and rescue dogs, and the road to a dog who could work a scent for hours began with one small thing: engagement. Look at me. Everything else was built on top of it. Breath meditation works the same way. Zhiyi, the Tiantai master, set out the sequence most of us have
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