Author: David Schwarm
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St. Theophan the Recluse
Monasticism itself is a perpetual labor of conquering passions and uprooting them in order that, being in a pure and immaculate state, one may preserve oneself before the face of God. This, then, is your task! Give your attention to it, and direct all your powers towards it.
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CASE 89: Tôzan’s "Place of No Grass"
Tôzan instructed the assembly and said, “At the beginning of autumn and the end of summer, you, brothers, are departing east and west. But you should go directly to the place of no grass over ten thousand miles.” And again he said, “How will you go to the place of no grass over ten thousand…
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Technology’s Impact on Families
Try to maintain perfectly pure thoughts in all circumstances, so that even the most insignificant of your acts will preserve their positive energy until you attain enlightenment. A drop of water that falls into the ocean will last as long as the ocean … Positive
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CASE 88: "Non-Seeing" in the Ryôgon Sutra
The Ryôgon Sutra says, “When I don’t see, why do you not see what I do not see? If you argue that you see what I do not see, that is of course not what I do not see. If you do not see what I do not see, then it is quite natural that…
David Given Schwarm 