Radiant Light Sangha
Radiant Light Sangha, a 501c3 Non-profit Buddhist Organization founded in 2005 by Rev. Eko Noble in Friday Harbor, WA; opened Portland, OR office in 2018.
Happy New Year 2024 - https://mailchi.mp/ddfdf71c8239/happy-new-year-16975724
Happy New Year 2024 - https://mailchi.mp/1d1e2109cd3c/happy-new-year-2024
A Day of Gratitude and Thanks - https://mailchi.mp/d3479d3b8c8a/a-day-of-gratitude-and-thanks
Happy New Year 2022 - 新春 令和四年元日
Wishing you a New Year of good health,
transformation and joy! May true community be
nurtured as we support each other in our spiritual
journey, embodying love and insight!
Thank you for your presence and support!
With love,
Eko Noble
And everyone at Radiant Light Sangha
https://www.rlsangha.org
Blessings of the Boxelder Bug - A Year End Story - Link Fixed - https://mailchi.mp/ecd161ff7ad4/blessings-of-the-boxelder-bug-a-year-end-story-10718117
Happy New Year 2022 - https://mailchi.mp/077644a759a3/happy-new-year-2022
Celebrating the return of Light! Happy Winter Solstice!
A priest's hermitage in Italy, creating a beautiful, contemplative spiritual life, something to which we all aspire!
"I go to the mountains to see...the external view helps with the interior seeing!"
Young priest turns remote farm into tiny hermitage homestead Five years ago Catholic priest Johannes Schwarz left his parish to "withdraw for a few years" in the Italian Alps (in the shadow of his beloved Monte Viso). ...
Happy Thanksgiving to all friends far and wide from the Pacific Northwest. Gratitude abounds!
One of my favorite passages "The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra 'The Teaching of Vimalakīrti ' ” Vimalakīrtinirdeśa from section 12.13. This is from the Robert AF Thurman translation available here for download: https://read.84000.co/translation/toh176.html
"Relying on the meaning and not on the literal expression; relying on gnosis and not on consciousness; relying on the ultimate teachings definitive in meaning and not insisting on the
superficial teachings interpretable in meaning; relying on reality and not insisting on opinions derived from personal authorities; realizing correctly the reality of the Buddha; realizing the ultimate absence of any fundamental consciousness; and
overcoming the habit of clinging to an ultimate ground. Finally, attaining peace by stopping everything from ignorance to old age, death, sorrow, lamentation, misery, anxiety, and trouble, and realizing that living beings know no end to their views
concerning these twelve links of dependent origination—then, noble son (and daughter), when you do not hold to any view at all, that is called unexcelled Dharma-worship."
The Teaching of Vimalakīrti | 84000 Reading Room While the Buddha is teaching outside the city of Vaiśālī, a notable householder in the city—the great bodhisattva Vimalakīrti—apparently falls sick. The Buddha asks his disciple and bodhisattva disciples to call on Vimalakīrti, but each of them relates previous encounters that have rendered...