In our daily prayers, we open by reciting: "[a]ll beings can expiate misdeeds, perform good, and attain Buddhahood by the merits of this Sutra. It does not...
... wrote: We are compelled to look back on our ... and ... An important clarification: I was wrong to say we wipe out regret. Using faith, we find its...
... to ... Rev. ... Hi Kevin, I feel your pain, I live here in central Florida with no temple or priest near by! My husband and I just recieved Jukai with Rev....
Helo Kevin, My name is Phil Sorenson. I am one of the Shami's being trained by Rev. Faulconer. Welcome, and nice to meet you. In Gassho, Shami Ryunin ... ...
... studying ... Hello! I am glad that there are other people a little closer that understand! Maybe I will be able to meet you one day. You have a very nice...
Hello Shami Ryunin! Thanks for the welcome and it is nice to meet you too! You are lucky to be near Rev. Faulconer and learning from him.I wish you the best! I...
Hi Kevin, Thanks for the compliment on the website! I think that it will be undergoing some major revamping in the near future. It just screams Frontpage. ...
I'm posting this against my better judgment, but I just can't let it go. And, I think I've bombarded Rev. Faulconer with enough questions, so I'm going to try...
Hi Mark: Here are some general comments on your post. Everyone runs across passages in the Lotus Sutra they don't like. I know one person who became livid...
Hi Mark this is from a footnote in Leon Hurvitz's excellent translation....ch. 14, following the statement: "nor does he approach the 5 kinds of unmanly ...
I concur with Dharmajim's analysis. I have written about this before in response to the same inquiry. It seems to me that chapter 14 is directed to monks and...
Hello...I'm new to both Nichiren Buddhism and this group, which seems friendly and helpful. I have a question..do any of you know if it is correct to chant...
Hello ameenah6! N a m u is complete and formal, while Nam is a contraction......it oughtta be Nam' in the latter case. To me, chanting silently is *often*...
Heh. Chanting silently better be OK, since I do most of my chanting on the train. I suppose if I chanted aloud I would get more room on the train, as no-one...
Hello Mark: I remember quite well the passge you are referring to and Dharmajim mentions some information I believe is helpful to you on the subject. I...
... helpful. I have a question..do any of you know if it is correct to chant silently as well as aloud? Are the effects the same? I think the answers already...
Thanks to everyone who replied. *sigh* I feel better now. :o) I think I still must have some of that literalist/fundamentalist attitude in me that I was...
Hi Mark: Learning to read the Sutras with a broader and more relaxed approach is a difficulty almost everyone faces. This is because of the way we learn how...
Dharmajim: Thank you so much for your insights. I, too, tend to see things as either/or and read (and listen) just as you describe...with an analytical...
Here is one instance where I am grateful to have had a liberal Catholic education. From about jr. high school onwards I learned all about the textual criticism...
Hi All, I pretty much agree with the insights shared by Jim and Ryuei, though I tend to bring with me a pretty Protestant approach to the interpretation of ...
if the buddha came and said in all his humility and perhaps, glory that the end of suffering was at hand, only, your religious practices needed to be left in...
Gassho Kevin; I just moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina from Ireland! I didn't have a sangha for 5 years, wonderful Rev. Ryuei here was the one who helped me...
Gassho Kevin; I just moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina from Ireland! I didn't have a sangha for 5 years, wonderful Rev. Ryuei here was the one who helped me...
... Answer 1: Nothing, I'd kill him. Answer 2: Nothing, reflecting emptiness, which is itself empty, empty of fullness, full of emptiness, empty of ful.., oh...
The Buddha always backed his views with excellent reasoning, and warned his followers against taking anyting just on his sayso. I'd ask him what his reasoning...
I agree with you, Brian. And from what I've studied, the Buddha's final instructions were a reminder that all phenomena are in constant change and that we...
Robin Beck Mettawaves from Robin's Nest May 13, 2005 The Hirahara Response to Ryuei (1) Terry Ruby recently posted SGI-USA Study Department Leader Eugene ...
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