Tenzo note #2: the habitat of billions of beings

Wherever you may be, your life is sustained and supported by the whole universe. The main purpose of human life is to maintain this sanctuary. It is not to climb a ladder to develop your own personal life.

We all, I believe, have that craving for transcendence in our lives. There are days when we feel the weight of our self-consciousness as a burden. As I’ve mentioned before, we’re a curious, high-maintenance species, yet still a fascinating lot. A healthy life with all the wholesome trimmings— nourishing food, vigorous exercise, adequate sleep— inde

the thing is not to deny it or turn away from it but to recognize it, let the fact of the limited nature of our life be an encouragement to live it well, to live it in a way that benefits everyone, not to get caught up in fear and self-clinging and forget our connection with everything and everyone but to live our life in a way that makes of it a g

our physical lives belong to the yang world and our spiritual lives belong to the yin world, then the boundary of our existence is life and death. According to religious qigong, our physical bodies will be