BLESSED ARE THE PEACE-MAKERS.

Kitabu Roshi sits with a Buddhist Monk at the Wat Promkunaram Buddhist Temple in Arizona. -Photo by Reverend Jeanene McQuillen- The gyroscope was invented in 1852 by the French experimental physicist Leon Foucault (1819-1868) as part of a two-pronged investigation of the rotation of the earth. (On display at Bowdoit College)   As a child I was fascinated by a gyroscope spinning on... Read more

Octuplet Mom: Eight Gates to Heaven…Focus on the children.

Nadya Suleman talks to Ann Curry of "The Today Show." To me, there is nothing more exquisite or as beautiful as a child. There is not to be found a more trusting and innocent being than a baby. The opposite complement to children would be the love of the mother. She opens her heart and takes the little life unto her breast.  If she is truly endowed with motherlove, there that child will... Read more

Why Did Bodhidharma Come to the West?

Wind blows...leaves scatter Bodhidharma traveled from India to introduce Zen (Ch'an)to China. Historically, Bodhidharma was the 28th patriarch of Gotama Buddha. Nevertheless, he was the founder of the enlightenment approach now known mostly by its Japanese name, Zen. Bodhidharma was also known as Tamo and Daruma. He travelled the distance from India to China over treacherous ground...but... Read more