Perhaps Another Place

I co-host the Circle City Sangha, a Plum Village group in Indianapolis. Recently, after one of the sessions I facilitated, a woman who has become a regular attendee came to me with some degree of gratitude for sharing a presentation of Buddhist thought different from what she had heard before. She told me of how she heard a teaching on the “simile of the saw.” The way it had been taught to her was that if you don’t keep love in your heart even when having your limbs sawed off by brigands, you aren’t a Real Buddhist™. I’m glad that karma or the devas or her ancestors brought her to us, and that she is now able to add Buddhist ideas to her already existing robust spiritual practice.

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