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I can’t post a video today … but I had the privilege of sitting a little Zazen<\/i> this morning at Pu’uhonua o Honaunau<\/b>, an old Hawaiian religious site and place of refuge, now a U.S. National Park …<\/p>\n

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Puuhonua o Honaunau is one of Hawaii’s most sacred historic places. The center piece of the park is the Hale O Keawe Heiau which once housed the bones of important chiefs. A heiau<\/b> is a Hawaiian temple, usually dedicated to treating the sick, making offerings of first fruits or the first catch, offerings to
\nstart or stop rain, even offerings of human sacrifice.<\/i> Often offerings were made seeking success in war.<\/i><\/div>\n

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All week I have had with me a recent translation of the Lotus Sutra by Gene Reeves<\/a>, very well done. It contains this many words by the Buddha such as the following which, if we stretch them just a little, might just contain all religions in some way. Perhaps all religions, in the end, have that same kernel of Truth at heart …<\/p>\n

Knowing that living beings have various desires and things to which they are attached, I have taught the Dharma according to their basic natures, using a variety of causal explanations, parables, other kinds of expression, and the power of skillful means. Shariputra, this is so that they may obtain the complete wisdom of the One Buddha-Vehicle.<\/p>\n

<\/i>Okay, well, granted, the practice of human sacrifice and such may be a bit hard for the
\nmodern mind to wrap itself around. It certainly does not represent a
\nBuddhist value, and I am very, very glad that it is not a part of Buddhism! I would rather have a religion that emphasizes respect for all life, and non-violence. So, that is certainly a form of practice I can do without! I can also do without using religions practices as a means to obtain success in war (although that still goes on in our modern world). I can do without that too. <\/p>\n

But, even so, I sat today with the human religious heart … which I think is common to most of us, though with many difference expressions and voices.  Each seeking in its own way to be at one and in peace with the world. <\/p>\n

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