Category: BUDDHISM

• BUDDHISM

  RICE

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Rice Lisa Karen Miller           Gautama Siddhartha was trying to achieve wisdom through fasting.  For a long while, he ate only one grain of rice a day.           After the Buddha found what he called The Middle Way, he began teaching what he had learned to…

  October 19, 2023
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  LOTUS

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Lotus Lisa Karen Miller           A belief in karma can be a great relief; it relieves you of troubling urges to take revenge on those who have wronged you.           Marx put it succinctly: “Time wounds all heels.”           Groucho, that is, not Karl.           May…

  October 12, 2023
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  BAMBOO

  THE FOLKLORE OF PLANTS: Bamboo Lisa Karen Miller “A man is born in a bamboo cradle and goes away in a bamboo coffin.  Everything in between is possible with bamboo.” Ancient Asian saying            In Buddhist philosophy, those who can endure suffering, be equal to change, and learn to embrace…

  October 4, 2023