Two quotes from President Ikeda from two different lectures: First, But of all human relations, that between mentor and disciple is the deepest and most...
I found this video at you tube which was someone reciting gongyo to musical and visual accompaniment I thought it sounded and looked interesting. At the very...
I'm going to go ahead and say Master/Disciple. In all of the martial arts movies I ever saw, there was a master martial artist with a school and many...
Byrd's message got consumed by my fiery wrath, but I'm reposting it because she's nicer than me... --Will ... Byrd wrote: Hello, both Alan and "Jim" - Alan, I...
Hi, I am a new member and have some questions. How does diamoku work and for what kind of problems can we chant and while chanting what attitude should we...
Here is a take on buddhahood,perfection, original enlightenment, and practice by one of the most highly regarded zen teachers alive today. Jim Perfection...
People will talk about hinayana & mahayana, but do we really know what those terms mean. One of Nikaya Suttas {Pali Canon} talks about our original mind...
The Lotus Sutra would not have come to our hands without its firs sentence, embodying the transmission of the principle of M/D : (1) " This is What I Heard": ...
This month was our discussion on the War in Iraq and we had a record turn out. The opinions flowed and they were amazingly diverse… and it was clear that...
O.K. maybe I don't fathom Shakyamuni's precepts as far as why he proposed them or what they mean. And maybe guns are a necessity even though I don't see it....
"If you seek enlightenment outside yourself, then your performing even ten thousand practices and ten thousand good deeds will be in vain. It is like the case...
SGI President Calls for Humanization of Religion as a Basis for Peace TOKYO, Jan. 25 -- In his 2008 peace proposal, to be issued on January 26 to commemorate...
Let's put things into perspective if we can. A short while back there was some discussion about what a buddha is. To me, and I hope that you will agree, a...
Hi again everyone A few years ago members of the Absolute Freedom Group got together to do a fundraiser for children affected by HIV / AIDS in South Africa. ...
Dear All Plans are well underway for the Absolute Freedom Division UK Training and Planning day to be held in Birmingham on Saturday 12 April 2008. SGI members...
Dear All Please see below an email from Haukur, inviting you all to Iceland to join the SGI Icelandic members before and during Reykjavik Pride - please see...
When Buddhists and Catholics pray, they use a string of beads. But did you know that these beads have a common ancestor in India? Originally, Brahmans -...
I thought about what it is that SGI teaches through the Mentor and Disciple relationship and this is what I came up with: Buddhism is the supreme philosophy of...
[Vision2000+] SGI news release on 2008 peace proposal This latest news is distributed worldwide: SGI President Calls for Humanization of Religion as a Basis...
Hello everyone: My question is, how do I chant to let go of something that doesn't belong to me and looking back, it never really did. How do I chant to let it...
Hi all it's almost that time of year -- for the annual independent survey about the sgi. the questions asked in year one and two were the exact same. before...
I am wondering how some of you might interpret the transmission of the Dharma to Superior Practices in the Lotus Sutra? If this has already been covered,...
Hi everyone, I've been liaising with Pam and Monic in Ohio to see how we can move forward since the election of Bush as the President of America in regards to...
Hi All; (and you know who you are) I rejoined this group just to get one member's address so I could send him Richard Seager's book, "Encountering the...
If you would like to do some extra Daimoku (chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo)with another member from UK, I am trying to do at least an hour or two every day so we...
Ikeda defines the M/D relationship as the mechanism for transfer of Buddhism to future generation. Any mentor is destiend to die, and so will the disciple....
I would love to hear about how you came to practice Buddhism, your personal experience. Did you start in Australia or somewhere else? Does your family know...
Hey, guys - I know this is off-topic, but Heath Ledger died this afternoon: http://www.cnn.com/2008/SHOWBIZ/Movies/01/22/heath.ledger.dead/index.ht ml Good...
