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<\/a>In the Japanese calendar April 8th is hanamatsuri<\/a>, the flower festival honoring the birth of Gautama Siddhartha<\/a>. The Buddha\u2019s birthday<\/a> is celebrated at other times in other Buddhist<\/a> countries. But it seems worth a brief pause here to take a breath and to recall one world teacher who called us to attention<\/a> to what is and to live a middle way<\/a>.<\/p>\nWould that we all followed those precepts\u2026<\/p>\n
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