Has anyone noticed that http://www.nichiren.info seems to have vanished from the net? I had to use http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://nichiren.info to track...
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Chanter Kyo
chanterkyo
Jun 17, 2008 3:24 pm
Apologies, if you get this muti-times. I just read this again, and felt I would share it with those might find it of interest. metta, betty/chanter THE LAST...
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mulcogi
Mar 8, 2010 11:39 pm
Howdy, Just curious as to how all my olde IRG buddies are doing? Are you all well? Enjoying your lives? Enjoying or still practicing Buddhism? Just curious....
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Jerry
boddhishaman
Mar 9, 2010 3:40 pm
Mulcogi, I'm doing great! Not practicing Buddhism or anything else. No need to practice when the practice, practicer and object of practice are seen to be a...
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Don Ross
campross
Mar 9, 2010 9:06 pm
Howdy Friends, I too am doing fine, living in the wilderness in our off-grid ranch home in Lake County, CA behind locked and code protected gates, far from...
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JIM WAGGONER
butsu6472
Mar 10, 2010 3:57 pm
Greetings, Â I'ts been awhile (June '08) since the last posting. I no longer re-assess anything. I disconnected myself from the Gakkai some time ago. I...
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Nancy Rogow
illarraza
Mar 10, 2010 3:59 pm
Dear Mulcogi: I am doing quite well thank you and you? Some are always here preaching "a" dharma while other's are always here preaching "the" Dharma, Mark ......
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ThusOne@...
Mar 10, 2010 4:06 pm
In a message dated 3/8/2010 3:39:03 PM Pacific Standard Time, ... HI HI HI... wow, i didn't know this page was still "hooked up"... is that how you say it? I...
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bloomingpouf
Mar 10, 2010 4:55 pm
... Oh it's spring and IRG pops up! The sap must be rising again! P^) Glad to see that some are still about and being true to The Self. I'm Still alive,...
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Jerry
boddhishaman
Mar 10, 2010 10:28 pm
Don, It has been a decade?....gosh how time flus when you no longer have to read Ikeda's poetry! We should do some kind of 10 year Internet reunion event and...
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Don Ross
campross
Mar 11, 2010 6:26 pm
Yes, it's been over 10 years, Jerry. (I left in Nov 99.) But I was never a signer of the Reform Declaration. I had already left IRG Central as a member (though...
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Michele Chavez
michelechavez
Mar 12, 2010 4:41 pm
Hi All, I was never a part of the IRG, but joined this group at some point to see what was going on. I left SGI about 3 years ago and a year later joined...
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Jerry
boddhishaman
Mar 12, 2010 4:44 pm
Thanks for the details on the UK. Does SGI do the "Year of" stuff there? In he US they used to do The Year of Glorious Victory, etc, which would in turn be...
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Rob
rrobinrb2000
Mar 12, 2010 4:46 pm
... I heard a reference to Nogales the other day, and wondered how you are doing. robin...
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Rob
rrobinrb2000
Mar 12, 2010 4:50 pm
... I am pretty sure I got mine in 2002. Got a letter from Tom Friese the same day. Tom wanted me to meet with Pascual and maybe stop being Taiten. I declined....
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bloomingpouf
Mar 12, 2010 7:48 pm
... Oh Jerry I had managed to forget the "Years Of...." and now you have brought it all back! I will have to go back into therapy! >8^) The "Year of Victory",...
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bloomingpouf
Mar 12, 2010 9:40 pm
How Odd! IRG limps back to life and some posts appear. THEN.... I'm Contacted! It seems that any and all posts on here are subject to monitoring. Thankfully it...
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Chanter Kyo
chanterkyo
Mar 15, 2010 4:08 pm
... What Fun to see posts on this group again and to hear from some I have not heard from for along time. As for myself, live is better than good. I am...
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Rob
rrobinrb2000
Mar 15, 2010 4:10 pm
... I have been looking into that weirdness and sorting out thoughts here: http://www.fraughtwithperil.com/blogs/rbeck/ Non-duality of Mentor and Disciple? ...
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Rob
rrobinrb2000
Mar 15, 2010 4:10 pm
... It is now the essence of the Lotus Sutra and all of Buddhism! This is a direct quotation: "Millions of SGI members around the world have shown clear proof...
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G. F. Nowatzke
boddhishaman
Mar 15, 2010 4:15 pm
Wow, the UK seem much more energeitc thatn the US these days! Â I almost miss it all, especially the exercise I got jumpiing up from my chair to yell AAO!...
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bloomingpouf
Mar 15, 2010 4:52 pm
... I think the correct term is "phlegmatic" - it's what happens when your Karma has had enough and savages your Dogma!...
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bloomingpouf
Mar 15, 2010 4:55 pm
... Don't forget these ones: "The Law, not the person is to be regarded as the proper standard in all things. Putting the person first gives you an uncertain...
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Don Ross
campross
Mar 15, 2010 5:53 pm
I hate to interrupt this SGI love fest, but... if there are any D&D fans out there, you might enjoy checking out a game I've been involved with for the past 15...
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Michiko Diby
onlymichiko
Mar 15, 2010 5:54 pm
Hey ya'll, I was watching the Vice Guide to North Korea and got the heeby jeebies becuase it was so much like SGI propganda video and exactly like the old ...
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bloomingpouf
Mar 15, 2010 8:39 pm
... Hey you forget "Forever Sensei" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOtpvfMRIZ0 It aint got the same level of spectacle and the production values may be lower...
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John Andre
john.andre85
Mar 16, 2010 4:33 pm
One big difference between the SGI and North Korea...they won't allow ANYONE to chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo in North Korea! In North Korea you worship the...
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bloomingpouf
Mar 16, 2010 7:29 pm
... Thanks for clarifying that John! So Mr Ikeda has no "Absolute Control" over SGI. That would explain the failure of SGI to follow the SGI Charter then -...
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Rob
rrobinrb2000
Mar 17, 2010 5:22 pm
... It seems like that guidance is now inoperative. It was always window dressing anyway. Excerpts from a lecture given by Masaaki Morinaka, Soka Gakkai Study...
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elessarjrr@...
elessarjrr
Mar 17, 2010 5:23 pm
The similarities may not be unveiled completely until PI passes away and his son becomes the next President. At that point we will be the world's largest...
