Chant to fulfill your mission for the Law - to accomplish kosen rufu. Then your life will natuarally attract the person best suited to help you fufill that...
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William
gaydave53
Jul 15, 2012 1:56 am
{top post} Sometimes there is no husband for you..and you've got to be willing to accept that reality...as Ikeda said, we're born alone and die alone. In my...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 15, 2012 4:00 am
Governments come and go, economies rise and fall and society constantly changes. Only the good fortune that we accumulate during our lives lasts forever. The...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 15, 2012 4:01 am
Outstanding Principles also declares, "Neither teacher nor disciples need undergo countless kalpas of austere practice in order to attain Buddhahood. Through...
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William
gaydave53
Jul 15, 2012 8:16 pm
Hello all... Whomever's still out there, I was encouraged by Greg Martin's comments on the "reson for Nichiren's advent" in the July "pre-lecture" video on "On...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 16, 2012 1:34 am
What is the treasure of youth? It is struggle; it is hard work. Unless you struggle, you cannot become truly strong. Those who fight hard during their youth...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 16, 2012 1:34 am
I, Nichiren, am hated by the people of Japan. This is entirely due to the fact that the lord of Sagami regards me with animosity. I grant that the government...
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I. Crawford
ladykitt
Jul 16, 2012 2:52 am
Thank you for writing this. The Dai-Gohonzon is not the original Gohonzon...Nichiren wrote many Gohonzon's prior to the Dai-Gohonzon. In 1986 I was at the...
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macwolf424
Jul 16, 2012 5:18 pm
I saw this also and was pleasantly surprised. There is hope. Lee...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 17, 2012 1:27 am
The powerful may appear great, but in reality they are not. Greatest of all are the ordinary people. If those in power lead lives of idle luxury it is because...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 17, 2012 1:27 am
I have pondered the matter carefully with what limited resources I possess, and have looked a little at the scriptures for an answer. The people of today all...
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Brian Holly
bholly72
Jul 17, 2012 1:39 am
Thanks! I spent years sifting through the tea leaves for tiny changes like this to give me hope. I would like to think that this might be the beginning of a...
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stoney
stoneymyo
Jul 17, 2012 5:40 pm
Aloha Brian, It would have been quicker to delve into the Gosho instead of tea leaves. Soka Spirit, study & discussion with others speeds the process of...
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Brian Holly
bholly72
Jul 17, 2012 5:49 pm
So we should default to the mandatory mentor instead, even when we know that he has continued to teach a distorted version of Buddhism and Buddhist history...
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stoney
stoneymyo
Jul 18, 2012 12:36 am
Aloha B.H, Perhaps the "mentor/community of believers/Gosho" reference I used was too vague. You seem to be looking for someone other than yourself to open the...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 18, 2012 1:26 am
Life isn't always smooth. If it were, we would never grow and develop as human beings. If we succeed, we are envied; if we fail, we are ridiculed and attacked....
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win
win_spirit
Jul 18, 2012 1:27 am
Those who chant Myoho-renge-kyo [the title of the Lotus Sutra] even without understanding its meaning realize not only the heart of the Lotus Sutra, but also...
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Brian Holly
bholly72
Jul 18, 2012 3:13 am
... Whoops, most certainly not. Why would you think such a silly thing. You can use the history function of this board and find literally hundreds of my posts,...
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markp_perltng
Jul 18, 2012 11:10 pm
I wouldn't say that Taisekiji is distorting the life of Nichiren on purpose. Some are myths that build the founder up in everyone's eyes, but when it comes to...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 19, 2012 2:11 am
There is no need to seek impatiently for greatness, fame or wealth. The Earth and Sun do not hurry; they follow their own path at their own pace. If the Earth...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 19, 2012 2:11 am
The ten directions are the "environment," and living beings are "life." To illustrate, environment is like the shadow, and life, the body. Without the body, no...
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William
gaydave53
Jul 19, 2012 9:44 pm
... I do feel that creating it for the Kaidan was what completed Nichiren's mission. Now that doesn't mean that all Gohonzon from here on out won't work ". ...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 20, 2012 12:31 am
Youth is truly wonderful thing. Unfortunately, though, this is often something that's hard to appreciate when we're young. Life passes by quickly. Before we...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 20, 2012 12:32 am
Those who believe in the Lotus Sutra should beware of and guard themselves against the sutra's enemies.... If you do not know your enemies, you will be...
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Brian Holly
bholly72
Jul 20, 2012 1:20 am
... Exactly right. The situation is even more tenuous. We cannot even be sure that Nichiren intended that there be one place that would be THE Kaidan, as the...
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verrytesty
Jul 20, 2012 3:38 pm
<< "A. The Absolutely True Object: << Being neither cause nor effect, with or without a Buddha enlightened to it, its nature and appearance are always as <<...
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Mark Porter
markp_perltng
Jul 20, 2012 11:13 pm
First of all, take all the talk about 'the power of' a special Gohonzon and the mytology surrounding it out of your mind, because that is only used to keep you...
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markp_perltng
Jul 20, 2012 11:14 pm
Yes, you can read it that way, but do you understand it? Tell me how dependent origination works without giving me the cut and dried explanation of what it is,...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 21, 2012 12:18 am
Our lives are ruled by impermanence. But simply realizing that changes nothing. There is no value in bleak pessimism. The challenge is how to create something...
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win
win_spirit
Jul 21, 2012 12:19 am
To speak out without fearing others and without flinching before society - this is what the sutra means when it says, "We care nothing for our bodies or lives...
