Category: Love
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It’s Lion’s Gate Day. Thinking About the Origin of the Universe.
Every year around August 8th, the spiritual community starts buzzing with talk of “the Lion’s Gate opening.” Apparently, this is a time when cosmic energy is said to grow stronger. As seen from Earth, the sun sits in the direction of Leo, and it aligns at a special angle with Sirius — which is why…
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Watching the Michael Jackson Movie Made Me Realize Again How Extraordinary He Was
This was a little while ago, but in mid-June, around the time the movie was released in Japan, I finally watched the Michael Jackson film. It had already opened in the United States at the end of April. A friend of mine saw it in the theater and told me, “It was so good. You…
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Watching Coachella While Thinking About the State of the World
It’s already been four months since we entered 2026, and the world seems to be moving in a more and more uneasy direction. From what I personally feel, gas prices have become the “new normal” at around $5 per gallon, and sometimes even creeping into the $6 range. There are constant headlines like “attacks on…
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Holiday Season: The Busiest Shopping Time of the Year
With Thanksgiving just around the corner, November marks the true beginning of the holiday shopping season.In my neighborhood, the roads leading to the mall are already packed with cars, and parking lots are constantly full. Even discount stores like Marshalls, HomeGoods, and Ross—usually the everyday favorites—are overflowing with shoppers.Despite the gloomy headlines about the AI…
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The Heart Sutra and What It Teaches Us in an Uncertain World
A few years ago, I became curious about the Heart Sutra and started looking into it.This short Buddhist scripture—only 262 characters long—is said to contain the essence of Buddhist wisdom.But honestly, I couldn’t understand any of it at first. So I went to my teacher: YouTube.I searched for “Heart Sutra explained simply” and finally found…