Purlaand Buddhists - What Are the Two Forces at Work?

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Ori: Pureland buddhism was a formative part of my spiritual development. I wanted to know if any of these traditions had the answer to climate change and species extinction. And pureland buddhists speak of two basic types of agency in the world, one is called self power. But when we think about the fact that we all die, we realize that there's a limit to it. In pureland bud dhism, that other power is a amitaba buddha. This isn't like the buddha who practises for many lifetimes and eventually sort of like, you know, gets squirted out of the universe like a watermelon seed.

Clark Strand is an American author and lecturer on spirituality and religion. He is a former Zen Buddhist monk and was the first Senior Editor of Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. He is also the author of many books including The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary and Seeds of a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey

In this episode, Eric and Clark discuss a few of his books in addition to his exploration of the many spiritual traditions.

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Clark Strand and I Discuss Haiku and Other Creative Spiritual Practices and …

His book, Waking Up to the Dark: The Black Madonna’s Gospel for an Age of Extinction and Collapse
His exploration of many spiritual traditions
Self power and other power
The circular notion of spiritual life rather than linear notion of progress
How a bead/rosary practice represents the circular nature of spirituality
The “hour of God” or “hour of the wolf” when awake in the night
Haiku and the tradition and forms of this type of poetry
Translation of haiku is “playful verse”
How profound meanings can come through from this playful art from

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