La llama indestructible

«The day of a monk begins with cleaning. The interior of the temple, the garden, and the floor of the main hall are swept. But we do not clean because it is dirty or messy, but to rid the spirit of any shadow that clouds it.» With the Cleansing Manual of a Buddhist Monk, Keisuke Matsumoto offers us a text that combines with grace and exquisitely Zen lightness, practical advice and philosophical and spiritual reflections.

Al profesar que Jesús de Nazaret es Cristo y Señor, la fe cristiana lo reconoce por eso mismo como verdadero hombre y verdadero Dios. Por eso es justo que se hable corrientemente de él como del "hombre-Dios".

From telemarketers to traffic jams to twenty-item shoppers in the ten-item line, our lives are full of interruptions. They're often aggravating, sometimes infuriating, and can make us want to tell people what we really think about them. But they also tell us something quite important about ourselves. The prophet Jonah's life was interrupted by a clear call of God that made him mad enough and scared enough to run in the completely opposite direction. Yet it wasn't really an interruption. It was an opportunity for Jonah to be involved in something the likes of which the Old Testament world had...

“Si me voy el purgatorio, tú me sacarás de allí”. Era una broma que solía hacerle sor María Gabriela a sor María de la Cruz cada vez que esta la regañaba, pues no era muy perfecta, sobrenaturalmente hablando. Pero ninguna de ellas pensaba de verdad que eso era precisamente lo que iba a ocurrir. En el año 1871, a causa de una grave epidemia, falleció sor María Gabriela en su convento de Valognes (Francia), a los 36 años de edad. En 1874, después de tres meses escuchando unos gemidos desconocidos, sor María de la Cruz escuchó una voz muy conocida: “¡No tengas miedo! Soy sor ...