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Jun 07 2010
Wounded Waters
My favorite blogger on Buddhism, Tenpa from Digital Tibetan Buddhist Altar posted a story and a prayer about the devastation that is happening in the Gulf of Mexico. The post is entitled Wounded Waters: Prayer for the Gulf of Mexico.
Tenpa talks about how, in 1964, he and a friend would camp at Longboat Key. They performed acts of Buddhist vandalism:
The fishermen at Longboat Key used to plant their reels in the sand, and leave their lines cast out into the surf. The waterbirds would come skimming across the water at dusk, and get entangled in the lines. Do and me used to sneak along the beach and cut the lines, so the fish would not be tempted, and the birds would not drown
May 29 2010
Saturday I-Ching
Meet King Wen of Zhou:
King Wen had a profound role in illuminating the I-Ching. He began the Zhou Dynasty, which lasted for 800 years and 37 emperors.
But King Wen himself did not live to enjoy this victory over the evil King Zhou, Emperor of the Shang dynasty, who had imprisoned King Wen, fearing his influence (as he well should have!).
Today’s I-Ching reading made me think of King Wen.
The I-Ching provided Hexagram 34, “The Power of the Great” with two changing lines, transforming to Hexagram 30: The Clinging, Fire:
