CALLING ALL SGI MEMBERS (please pass on this email to all those on your list) This Saturday 5 July 2008 members of SGI will be taking part in London Pride...
I am a group chief practicing in India since 2003...All what I want to convey to my kind readers are that the moment you build up faith the same way you love...
... happening ... frowning ... we ... revolution ... yoho ... Love and a strong faith:). I just have to email this to many of my friends. Thank you for...
I like your sentiment. One question, what happens with those who hate their parents? Things are getting better, but in the nineties, I knew too many parents...
... You certainly make a lot of assumptions about me. Just as you and Brian assumed the experience Don posted meant something it did not say at all. I didn't...
Though evils may be numerous, they cannot prevail over a single great truth, just as many raging fires are quenched by a single shower of rain. This principle...
"Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is like the roar of a lion," the Daishonin says (MW-1, 119). It is by chanting powerful daimoku, like a lion's roar, that we can move the...
... Dear Vanya I have made no assumptions about you! I don't know you, have not met you, have not spoken to you etc. I also made no assumptions about what Don...
Did You Know LB, July-Aug 2008 Due to a combination of folklore and translation, a fictionalized version of Shakyamuni Buddha was canonized by the Catholic...
So one goes from a complete understanding of non-self and emptiness to believing in a supreme self, absolute good and evil and all other varieties of inverted...
The writer Geothe was an unflagging optimist. How was he able to maintain such optimism? Because he was always active. He did not allow his life to stagnate....
The sutra teaches that women, evil men, and those in the realms of animals and hell - in fact, all the beings of the Ten Worlds - can attain Buddhahood in...
So your point (and Brian's) is that if someone does recover from an illness, and attributes it to their faith, they should keep quiet about it because it might...
My wife has a ruptured disk in her lower back and Blue Cross has denied the ADR (Artificial Disk Replacement) and she has filed to have this overturned. This...
... Dear Jim You seem to be mixing up Grammatical Structures. You start of using a statement and then seem to wish to turn it into a question. It's a common...
... positive ... Universal ... others. If ... cliché". ... having had ... using ... others. ... little ... say ... meant ... Perhaps I did misunderstand. It...
... It is ... but I ... If you have a problem with SGI leaders, take it up with them. Complaining about them on a message board is, as you say in the Isles, ...
... I think that baby/bath comment is a good way of looking at it. There is pretty overwhelming evidence that a positive attitude has a significant effect on...
... No. Hurt feelings are not the point. Teaching things that are likely not true is. Not everything good that happens after someone begins chanting is...
Since the Lotus Sutra defines our body as the Dharma body of a Thus Come One, our mind as the reward body of a Thus Come One, and our actions as the manifested...
Those who have a mentor in life are truly fortunate. The path of mentor and disciple is one that leads to personal development and growth. Those without a...
Definitely you don't want to "throw the baby out with the bath water." That is why everyone takes their own bath, and you don't leave babies unattended in the...
... Sorry I didn't explain the reference to Honen. Honen insisted that no other way to Buddhahood existed other than faith in the Nembutsu. He rejected 'hard...
... It is ... In all honesty, I cannot take credit for mixing grammatical structures, but for appropriating a rhetorical device. In this case, perhaps, its...
... Dear Mick You make a most interesting point that agrees with known interactions between the Human Brain, Endocrine System and The Biological Imperatives ...
As evidenced by the many letters to his followers, Nichiren encouraged all people of his time and future generations to chant Nam- myoho-renge-kyo so they...
... Dear Brian "classic post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy"... ooh that sounds contagious! Can it be cured and if so how? }P^) ... and my Granny swore by St...
... Dear Vanya You have no need to make such a suggestion to me - It is a path that has already been trodden. Letters have been written, questions asked and ...
There is no more evidence that Nichiren cured the people described below than there is for the contention that chanting "cured" Ms. Elliott's mother (if taking...
The general rule is that any criticism of fearless leaders is "really bad form". Informal, formal, through channels, not through channel, privately,...
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