We are pleased to announce a one day Zen Workshop with Denko Mortensen Osho at the Unitarian Universalist Church Of the Leigh Valley in Bethlehem, Pa. Rev....
Hi, I am a Nichiren Buddhist, 30 plus year SGI member. This is part of a group of files I am assembling that have helped me emerge fairly intact from a decade...
Hi Robin: Thanks for your interesting collection of websites. I am sorry to hear of your experiences with The Truth of Suffering. All share this experience...
... a ... Thanks Robin I really like your list of files. One thing though - I was not sure if you were trying to draw a connection between 30 years of SGI and...
... this ... appreciate ... and ... to be counted as unbalanced." -- The Sutra ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hmmm? The way it was presented, it...
Hi Atta: Zange may be directly translated as 'confession' but it should not be associated with the baggage of meaning normally associated with, say, Catholic...
... etc. I must admit that 5 years with them took a toll on me. ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lol, Yes & no. There was some synchrosity going...
... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Maybe Youz knows what the charaters are for Zan (or San) and Ge or Ke? Could literally mean Three Verses??? I was...
Robin: Literally, Zan = confession and Ge = repentence. The 28th chapter of The Lotus Sutra and the Fugen Kyo that closes it are about this practice. I can...
... of ... posts. <smipped for brevity> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Thank you Peter, for taking the time to reply. A little over a year ago, a had a cardiac...
Robin: You obviously have had a better experience on the SGI list than I have. I found the censor Will Kallander to be petty, mean-spirited and a paranoid...
Youz I had the same chilling experience with Herr Kallender's chamber of thought control. ... SGI revision for Mappo (a.k.a. Daily Guidance): "Depend on what...
... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The situation there has changed. A lot. Check it out. Though if you call moderator people petty and mean spirited,...
We were discussing why SGI clings to clearly unsupportable Taisekiji dictrines (like Jogyo as Shakyamni's original teacher/Nichiren as the Adi-Buddha/Honbutsu)...
I think that the whole debate about 'who the eternal Buddha is' is ridiculous. People who believe the 'eternal' Buddha is Nichiren or Shakyamuni don't have a...
I was also censored at the SGI site for no good reason and will NEVER check them out again. There so are many wholesome resources available to learn about and...
... dogs over which one of them is right. ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You did not like my humor then? Personally, I accept the Lotus Sutra. So I accept...
... NEVER check them out again. There so are many wholesome resources available to learn about and participate in Buddhism. There is absolutely no need to...
Hi Eijo: Nice to hear from you. This is a translation of the 'Essentials for the Cultivation of Calm- Observation in Seated Meditation', also known popularly...
Eijo: I do not know who wrote this translation - however this work has been translated a number of times. Peter ... Calm- ... the ... the ... Delivered ... ...
... Chapter ... messenger for ... It sounds like your justification for viewing Shakyamuni of the 16th chapter as the eternal Buddha is along the lines of...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ First, since the archives here are public, I would like to forward this to nichirenpix and Dharma_Study_Group. Let me know...
... a ... What do Jogyo and the other three Bodhisattvas represent so that they should be the so-called messengers of the eternal Buddha? It sounds like a...
I thought they represented the qualities of self, eternity, purity and happiness. What are the four vows of a Bodhisattva? I haven't heard of that one. Chick...
... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Yes, and that is pretty much on what I impromptu expanded on below, but I got them in the wrong order. I would probably...
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