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There is no place in the SGI for cowards or for egoists who are given to arbitrary or self-serving views. Our movement has no need for the fainthearted, filled
What good karma you must have formed in the past, then, to have been born a person able to recite even so much as a verse or a phrase of the Lotus Sutra! (WND,
... That is good Don. Nobody is knocking that at all; no one I know of anyway. We are allowed to comtemplate other things while chanting. For example, I might
Regarding contenment: It seems lately that all I'm praying about is manifesting Buddhahood and sending daimoku to the Buddhahood in other people's lives. No
... Exactly. The point I was trying to make to Angela is that Buddhism is not about finding contentment. I was making the point that contentment is possible