So Tsingtao and I will have power struggles and stinging each other... Chris Holte and I will have good heads together.. Safwan will become headstrong with me...
... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Stop right there. Where did yiu get the absurd nation that women were excluded? Or anyone else? Have you read any of the Pali...
... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ah, I see! Nichiren was Shakyamuni? The same sentence in The Nichiren Shu's English version reads something like: "I, Nichiren,...
... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are absolutely no schools I know of who regard Shakyamuni as the only Buddha. How absurd can you possibly get? I will not waste...
This also explains what I meant about beggars..they do not understand the cause of enlightenment of all Gods and Buddhas, is a law existent within our lives. ...
<<My take is that Nichiren compares himself to a compassionate parent because he scolded the people of Japan for their errors. He was not reassigning the "the...
I know a lot of Nichiren Buddhists who "begged" the Gohonzon firt benefits. This will always be, Jodine. It has nothing to do with confusing cause & effect, or...
... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Msybe Ikeda is taking something simple and reading a lot into it? IIRC, Nichiu, the 9th HP, is credited with invemting the concept of a...
Brian wrote: << Ahh, yes, but that involves undergoing an endless, painful, austerity --- namely, reading the Book of Mormon. >> If you like sci-fi, there's a...
Safwan wrote: << One of this biggest mistakes of schools which refer to Shakyamuni as THE only Buddha, >> What schools are those? I am not aware of any. Is...
... Julius, with all due respect to your father, he was dead wrong. I happen to be a 3rd-generation Master Mason, and I know of quite a few Nichiren Buddhists...
... have been ignorant then ... other than begging ... them as directed at ... Hi Ryuei, There is both seriousness and joking. Seriously, Shakyamuni went about...
... an ... I for one will say that the chapter in there on the life and teachings of Nichiren Shonin is one of the best (and most accurate) short accounts in...
... you ... any ... been ... image ... That is the image I grew up with about Freemasons, but I know at least one Buddhist who has been accepted, and I know in...
... Just to clear up any confusion about Robin's message ... From: Online Etymology Dictionary at: http://www.etymonline.com/ "audit (n.) 1431, from L. auditus...
My perspective is that of the four ways or preaching (which is found in the SGI Dictionary of Buddhist Terms) that was formulated by Nagarjuna in the Treatise...
Let me preface that I am not nor have I ever been LDS, but their history has always fascinated me. The "magic underwear" is properly called the "Temple...
Oh... entertaining, absolutely. Just finding myself in high curmudgeon mode this morning. Friday's coming, fortunately. I bow to your polyesterness, oh blue...
... When you get your "endowments" in the LDS church in the temple, you receive a special set of undergarments which have special symbology tied to the...
Safwan, I will happily do so, but I am traveling on business, and I will not be home for weeks. I don't want to quote it when I don't have it in hand. I will...
... I bow to your zenchishikiness oh good friend, and have realized that some attempts at humor may go too far. I hereby step down as mentor of the Maybe Today...
Are you referring to the late great (and scary) Aleister Crowley? Appropo for today -- Dia de los Muertos! I'd say "great minds think alike" but I'm actually...
Fox Fur Apocrypha I had a dog I really loved, She chased foxes in the woods, when she caught them she didn't know what to do, She'd get them in a tree, or...
... That would be him - wicked old Uncle Al - who started off his "autohagiography" by telling his readers how he was born with webbed hands and feet like the...
You, you treacherous wretch, you! What about your devoted disciples? Does no one think of THEM, and the faith they held so steadfastly in not only the very...
... disciples? ... in ... but ... much ... carried ... first ... I was going to suggest that maybe Maybe today cvould go on if one of my disciples wanted to...
Folks, I found this on the Yahoo Group "Gay Buddhist Open Forum" of which I'm a member, and wanted to pass it along. For my part, I plan to chant 108 "rounds"...
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