Dewah, yesterday morning at our Daddy and Dewah Breakfast Time at The Brickhouse Cafe. The antique rocking horse's nameis 'Brii' according to Dewah. Brii is only one of several ancient chi treasures in this 108 year-old restored Victorian house. When you sign up for your WF Private Intensive, we'll be sure to take you here as well!
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At the time of Buddha, there lived an old beggar woman called Relying on Joy. She used to watch the kings, princes, and people making offerings to Buddha and his disciples, and there was nothing she would have liked more than to be able to do the same. But she could only beg enough oil to fill a single lamp. However, as she placed it before Buddha she made this wish: “I have nothing to offer but this tiny lamp. But through this offering, in the future may I be blessed with the lamp of wisdom. May I free all beings from their darkness. May I purify all their obscurations, and lead them to enlightenment.”
That night, the oil in all the other lamps went out. But the beggar woman’s lamp was still burning at dawn, when Buddha’s great disciple Maudgalyayana came to...
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