A Fistful of Sand

I n the past I was able to teach the Buddha’s Dharma throughout the day without ever mentioning him or using a Pali or Sanskrit word. I’ve given up on that. Once the Buddha is taken out of the equation people are free to twist the teachings anyway they want to because the teaching has no context. I’ve seen psychoanalysts of all stripes damage a patient’s life by using Dharma teachings secularly avoiding what might be perceived as a religious connotation.   Whether or not “Buddhism” is a religion or not is a matter of interpretation. As a practitioner of the Dharma I find the Buddha is immensely important to me. It is after called Buddhadharma. If we can all agree that these teachings originated with the Siddhartha Gautama then the importance of the Buddha cannot be over estimated.   It is true that Dharma, as taught, is to be used in secular settings but I am just a tad skeptical of a secularized Dharma having great long lasting value. If one cannot ha...

Hongaku Jodo Website Click here to subscribe to our newsletter. Dr. Masaru Emoto has experimented on water for more than a decade. He proved that water can sense, comprehend, see, and listen. It seems that water can understand our minds. He found that water can respond to writing, language, music, and even peoples’ minds. If someone feels love and writes the word “Love” in different languages and stick the paper on a bottle of water for water to “see” it and later freeze the water bottle. When looking at the water under a microscope, we will see beautiful water crystals. If the write the word “Hate” in any language, the water crystals seemingly become ugly to some people. Water also seems to listen to & understand music. When classical music is played the water crystals become beautiful. Say words like, “I hate you” or “I don’t like you” to water, the crystals become what is usually described as ugly. This seems to prove, at least to some, that water is a living org...