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96045
Here it is... The following is a summary of a lecture given by SGI-USA Vice General Director Greg Martin at the Seattle Culture Centre on June 9, 1995....
win_spirit
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Jul 9, 2009
1:38 am
96046
I take this "nit" comment back. If you've got nits, you need anti-nit medicine immediately. Ignoring them will do no good. You will just get more nitty. I...
Kathy Sain
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Jul 9, 2009
2:17 pm
96047
Kathy I think Chris's metaphor was attempting to say: "don't become too fixated on doctrinal minutiae" or potentially "don't obsess on sectarian legend" (e.g...
steve_is_a_buddha
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Jul 9, 2009
2:39 pm
96048
"deliberately blowing back the fur and hunting for flaws" "On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land" The Guest asked, "Why do you try to...
Don Gropp
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Jul 9, 2009
2:47 pm
96049
Ben trovato Don! - Steve...
steve_is_a_buddha
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Jul 9, 2009
3:50 pm
96050
win-spirit: Thank you for taking the time to get this for me. I hope you didnt have to look far for it. I appreciate your efforts. Warm regards aryanna...
Aryanna Green
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Jul 9, 2009
4:01 pm
96051
... Anyone who speaks Japanese has heard the recording of that famous speech. We are dealing with human beings on all sides of these issues. Nikken did attend...
Christopher H. Holte
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Jul 9, 2009
4:02 pm
96052
I was using it in it's figurative sense. I haven't had to deal with literal nits since High School.... :-))...
Christopher H. Holte
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Jul 9, 2009
4:02 pm
96053
... It's a paraphrase of something in the Gosho Kathy. Sorry. Nichiren compared confused or counterfeit priests to cats; always stalking donors, always...
Christopher H. Holte
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Jul 9, 2009
4:05 pm
96054
... Kathy: Well, I was referring to the Law of Cause and Effect, that is, everything one thinks, one says, one does engenders specific effects. But, I have...
Kathy Sain
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Jul 9, 2009
6:36 pm
96055
Thanks Don, that is pretty close however that was not the passage I was thinking of, but it does remind me of what makes up a legitimate critique. Note, the...
Christopher H. Holte
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Jul 9, 2009
9:30 pm
96056
Strengthen your faith now more than ever. Anyone who teaches the principles of Buddhism to others is bound to incur hatred from men and women, priests and...
win_spirit
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Jul 10, 2009
1:45 am
96057
Even in times of hardship, the important thing is for each of us to determine that we are the star, protagonist and hero of our lives and keep moving forward....
win_spirit
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Jul 10, 2009
1:45 am
96058
Don Gropp wrote: << Do you keep up with Nichiren Shoshu activities and read their publications? >> Yes. Do you? << Are you up-to-date with what's going on in...
Andy Hanlen
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Jul 10, 2009
1:50 am
96059
<<5. He [Nichiren] talks within the doctrines of Buddhism, not inventing his own ideas and passing them off as Buddhist doctrine>> The following passage sounds...
Don Gropp
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Jul 10, 2009
2:14 am
96060
I recall Makiguchi chiding the priesthood for ignoring the principle of punishment (seven dharanis), especially since it is so obviously displayed on the...
Don Gropp
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Jul 10, 2009
1:32 pm
96061
"Life Force," a term used by Soka Gakkai becoming mainstream. ...
Don Gropp
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Jul 10, 2009
1:59 pm
96062
Don <<the SGI; do you read the publications?>> Andy <<Yes>> Perhaps, Andy, you could substantiate your claim by citing something you've read in the latest...
Don Gropp
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Jul 10, 2009
3:13 pm
96063
... Do you even understand what an oral teaching is? An oral teaching is a teaching passed on from priest to priest and usually ascribed to the authority of...
Christopher H. Holte
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Jul 10, 2009
4:02 pm
96064
"The Entrustment and Other Chapters" There are two kinds of demons, good and evil. Good demons feed upon enemies of the Lotus Sutra, while evil demons feed...
Don Gropp
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Jul 10, 2009
4:55 pm
96065
Don, I do not receive any SGI publications but I am curious about this "historic calligraphy." Would you be so kind as to tell us about it? Thanks....
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Jul 10, 2009
4:59 pm
96066
... Yes Don, before SGI no one had ever used the term "Life Force"....
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Jul 10, 2009
9:45 pm
96067
... And middle way demons eating both enemies and votaries are like hungry teenagers indiscriminately invading your refrigerator after school. Is it...
verrytesty
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Jul 10, 2009
10:59 pm
96068
That's it, VT, You've solved my problem.  I'm giving up this quasi-vot biz and choosing to be a demon.  As for a "middle way demon" I've been an 'addled...
Kathy Sain
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96069
... Bill, I know you are being sarcastic, but I really had never heard the term before I heard it used in the SGI many years ago. I am not saying they...
camoonchild
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96070
é•lan vi•tal Élan vital, coined by French philosopher Henri Bergson in his 1907 book Creative Evolution, was translated in the English edition as "vital...
Don Gropp
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11:47 am
96071
Don, really.... You are proclaiming Toda's genius through his ability to borrow other people's ideas. But a brilliant mathematician? Where did he do that?...
steve_is_a_buddha
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6:16 pm
96072
No, just how to save the planet using Buddhistical, logical, common sense. Sorry, Don, whatever you might want to say... Demon-apprentice failure Sain Don,...
Kathy Sain
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6:33 pm
96073
Hmmm, 2 days later and no explanation about the "historic calligraphy." Seemed like a reasonable question to me. . . must not be that "historic" or maybe its...
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96074
... This may all be valid, at least if we accept that demons are not literally supernatural beings which hand out punishment and rewards to humans. Maybe they...
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