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Homosexuals in the United States
As a self-confessed statistics nerd, I figured this out. I just bought the 2011 US Almanac, which said 2.3 percent of men in the US identify themselves as gay. Estimating about 115 million adult males in the US, that means there are approximately 2,600,000 men in the United States openly identify themselves as gay. This does not include bisexual ( Read more... ) -
Why I am chanting
I chant for many reasons, but the main reasons I believe I chant is for freedom from my addictions and to create a life condition for myself that is more than I could ever create on my own. I struggle with an addiction, depression, and an overall attitude problem. Chanting helps me to heal these things. Truly it does. Way more than attending ( Read more... ) -
Juzu
Wanting to learn more about why beads are used while chanting, I looked up some information online. Most of the information below is from http://www.nichirenbuddhist.org/LearnBuddhism/MeditationBeads.html . I edited a lot of it because there is WAY too much for me to understand at this point in my study. As I found out while reading all of this ( Read more... ) -
CONTROL your MIND, and you can CONTROL your EMOTIONS
"Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds."
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The Courage to Overcome
They ridicule the Lotus Sutra as nothing more than a finger pointing at the moon or a meaningless string of words. (Letter from Sado, p. 304)
Yet you must grit your teeth and never slacken in your faith. Be as fearless as Nichiren when he acted and spoke out before Hei no Saemonnojo. Although theirs was not the path to Buddhahood, the sons of ( Read more... ) -
The Law of Life
This morning I am contemplating how through Nichiren Buddhism, I can transform my desires into firewood--fuel for my quest toward enlightenment. When I was a Christian, I thought of the path to enlightenment being the eradication of all desires. I thought I had to train my mind to desire only God. However, in Nichiren Buddhism, I am learning ( Read more... ) -
Daimoku and Gongyo got me thru yesterday
Yesterday was quite a day. A type of "hell" (a condition of suffering and despair). Chanting helped to fill that emptiness and pain.
"If you wish to free yourself from the sufferings of birth and death you have endured since time without beginning and to attain without fail unsurpassed enlightenment in this lifetime, you must perceive the ( Read more... ) -
After Evening Gongyo
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo is the Heart and core of the Universe
All life is Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo is the Law of Cause and Effect
- Nam is devotion to the mystic law and the act of summoning the Law from within
- Myoho is the law of life - the emergence of the highest state of life -the Buddha state-from within
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- Nam is devotion to the mystic law and the act of summoning the Law from within
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Human Revolution
"Human revolution is the work of transforming our lives at the very core. It involves identifying and challenging those things which inhibit the full expression of our positive potential and humanity."
The core philosophy of the SGI can be summed up in the concept of "human revolution."
This is the idea that the self-motivated inner change of ( Read more... )
