I’ve slept for eleven hours two nights in a row.  This has got to be a world record for me.  There’s not much oomph in the bod but I wanted to put something out into the world today.  So here goes …

The photo is of Donald Lopez Jr.  He’s a professor of Buddhism at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.  My antennae are always up for good teachers.

First of all, a note about vocabulary:

“In Buddhism, sutras are sacred scriptures, considered records of the oral teachings of Gautama Buddha or his close disciples”

Donald had an assignment for his students.  In his words …

The second paper topic pointed out that Buddhist sutras were written for centuries after the death of the Buddha, with anonymous authors attributing their own words to the Buddha, thus allowing the Buddha to address important issues of the time, sometimes in the form of prophecy.  Using the literary style of a Buddhist sutra, the students were asked to compose a sutra, setting forth what the Buddha might teach those living in America today.

What a cool task to present to young minds!  The article I read didn’t give examples of student sutras but I bet there was a lot of spiritual energy flowing from student to prof within computer files.

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A big Yes to the spiritual life of the planet