Ground Zero I just arrived back in Los Angeles after having spent a week in New York on business. The company set me up at the Millennium Hotel, directly...
Hello friend, the Buddha used to say, ³Ehipassikho,² see for your self. So, see for yourself what the Buddha really said, There you can also see for your...
Hi everyone, This is to remind everyone that on Thursday April 6 from 7 to 9 pm Prof. Takashi Nakao, leading authority on the history of Nichiren Shu Buddhism...
Greetings, As some of you noticed, the server for Nichiren's Coffeehouse was down last night and today, but it is fixed now. There is a brand new backroom in...
Hi Don - Nice pages! If you wish, you could include this information for trans folks. Spectrum also serves the trans community. Positive Images in Santa Rosa...
What a great coming out post, Colin. ;-] I just added your group to GayWineCountry.com at: http://home.flash.net/~campross/GaySFNorthBay.html Is the new...
Dear Sangha, Please see the summary of the combined lectures and Q&A from Prof. Nakao recorded by Rev. Ryuei at http://fraughtwithperil.com/blogs/ryuei/ Here...
Lisa - Thank you very much for your summary here! I really appreciate it; I would very much have liked to attend this talk. I will definitely do my best to...
... the NBIC really is doing wonderful things & t I just want to say to Lisa, many thanks your eloquent narration really made me feel like I was there. It...
Dear Don: Thank you for your help. You have always been my favorite contributor. Your messages are insightful and pithy. Please tell me more about Rissho ...
Hi everyone, Thanks to Matt Miller, my new article on Angulimala has been uploaded to Ryuei.net. It tells the story of the Buddha's conversion of an infamous...
Guys, I was paging through my copy of Miraculous Tales of the Lotus Sutra in Ancient Japan the other night and one thing that struck me was the common practice...
Hello Max, I picked up that practice from that same book. It is a lovely practice. When I was in San Diego living in an urban environment, I regularly and...
Hi Don, Living in New England, I often see tanks of lobster for sale. Since they are a native species I will give this a try. I know of many tough old "Down...
Gassho Max Interesting you would mention that...... i have a friend who lives in Maine, and once a year, during some major lobster catching festival, she...
Yes, Max, setting New England Lobsters free back into the sea would be a wonderful modern spin-off practice of this venerable tradition to set living beings...
Mark, If I remember many of the ancient Jewish dietary laws were concerned not just with health but with whether the animal could be dispatched in a humane...
Max; I can tell you (being Jewish) that modern interpretations (that's the past hundreds of years) of the laws of kosher, is compassion and a sense of...
... Don and Max, When I lived in Nevada, I was astonished and pleased at the number of people who would buy captured mustangs (they are rounded up yearly)......
For anyone interested, I happened upon an illustrated history of Buddhism. This is coming from the Theravadin tradition, and there are some legends here that I...
Rory, Thats great. I have always felt that these traditions were largely based on humane ethics rather than some practical consideration of food safety as...
Kris, Yes, I have heard about this. Saving these horses is remarkable, especially when such an act of kindness really impacts your pocketbook. I heard that ...
Hi everyone, I have been sick in bed the last day and a half probably owing to a three hour root canal I had on Monday morning. I was at work today and got...
THANKS RYUEI Im glad that i found a form of nichiren buddhism that realy satisfies all my spiritual needs. Ass a member of gakkai (that i still am) im verry...
... week. SO im wery great full to all of em BUT IS IT A KARMIK ERROR TO LEAVE. And does it make an asshole out of me. ... First of all, ask yourself if...
Morning to you :) I have a question! I listen to the radio offen, I heard that it used to be that some communities would build their homes around the...
I was chanting last night for the mother of a close friend who's dying from cancer. In the Prayer for Healing the Sick in the "Sacred Services of Nichiren Shu"...
Hi Pam I hope you, your mother, and your mother's close friend experience freedom and joy in the midst of this big transition. I'm not really qualified to...
Thank you for your quick response.I feel more confident now and that I `m on the right track. I even got the answer to the Sangha -question. I`m going to...
... neighborhood/community ... be ... a ... Temple ... Originally, the "temples" were not meant to be temples at all but "viharas" which means "abiding...
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