Chanting Growers Group (2013-∞)

[AvidLerner]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
And Happy Birthday to me!

Happy birthday

 

[AvidLerner]

Nam MyoHo Renge Kyo
Like the Roar of the Lion!

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Stan G.]

the best way to improve your dayo, is to say, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Stan G.]

Happy birthday

Thanks, cheers!

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

In the Latter Day of the Law, the votary of the Lotus Sutra will appear without fail. The greater the hardships befalling him, the greater the delight he feels, because of his strong faith. Doesn’t a fire burn more briskly when logs are added? All rivers flow into the sea, but does the sea turn back their waters? The currents of hardship pour into the sea of the Lotus Sutra and rush against its votary. The river is not rejected by the ocean; nor does the votary reject suffering. Were it not for the flowing rivers, there would be no sea. Likewise, without tribulation there would be no votary of the Lotus Sutra. As T’ien-t’ai stated, “The various rivers flow into the sea, and logs make a fire burn more briskly.”2
You should realize that it is because of a profound karmic relationship from the past that you can teach others even a sentence or phrase of the Lotus Sutra. The sutra reads, “Nor will they hear the correct Law—such people are difficult to save.”3 The “correct Law” means the Lotus Sutra; it is difficult to save those who are deaf to the teachings of this sutra.
A passage from the “Teacher of the Law” chapter reads: “If one of these good men or good women [in the time after I have passed into extinction is able to secretly expound the Lotus Sutra to one person, even one phrase of it, then you should know that] he or she is the envoy of the Thus Come One.” This means that anyone who teaches others even a single phrase of the Lotus Sutra is the envoy of the Thus Come One, whether that person be priest or layman, nun or laywoman. You are already a lay practitioner and therefore one of the “good men” described in the sutra. One who listens to even a sentence or phrase of the sutra and cherishes it deep in one’s heart may be likened to a ship that crosses the sea of the sufferings of birth and death. The Great Teacher Miao-lo stated, “Even a single phrase cherished deep in one’s heart will without fail help one reach the opposite shore. To ponder one phrase and practice it is to exercise navigation.”4 Only the ship of Myoho-renge-kyo enables one to cross the sea of the sufferings of birth and death.
The Lotus Sutra speaks of “someone finding a ship in which to cross the water.”5 This “ship” might be described as follows: As a shipbuilder of p.34infinitely profound wisdom, the World-Honored One of Great Enlightenment, the lord of teachings, gathered the lumber of the four flavors and eight teachings, planed it by honestly discarding the provisional teachings, cut and assembled the planks, forming a perfect unity of both right and wrong,6 and completed the craft by driving home the spikes of the one true teaching that is comparable to the flavor of ghee. Thus he launched the ship upon the sea of the sufferings of birth and death. Unfurling its sails of the three thousand realms on the mast of the one true teaching of the Middle Way, driven by the fair wind of “the true aspect of all phenomena,”7 the vessel surges ahead, carrying aboard all people who can “gain entrance through faith alone.”8 The Thus Come One Shakyamuni is at the helm, the Thus Come One Many Treasures takes up the mooring rope, and the four bodhisattvas led by Superior Practices row quickly, matching one another as perfectly as a box and its lid. This is the ship in “a ship in which to cross the water.” Those who are able to board it are the disciples and lay supporters of Nichiren. Believe this wholeheartedly. When you visit Shijō Kingo, please have an earnest talk with him. I will write you again in more detail.
With my deep respect,
Nichiren

The twenty-eighth day of the fourth month
To Shiiji Shirō

---> http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/3

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

Thus faith is the basic requirement for entering the way of the Buddha. In the fifty-two stages of bodhisattva practice, the first ten stages, dealing with faith, are basic, and the first of these ten stages is that of arousing pure faith. Though lacking in knowledge of Buddhism, a person of faith, even if dull-witted, is to be reckoned as a person of correct views. But even though one has some knowledge of Buddhism, if one is without faith, then one is to be p.142considered a slanderer and an icchantika, or person of incorrigible disbelief.

---> http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/14

 

[Weird]

One should consider the fact that, if the Buddha had not attained enlightenment in the distant past, there could not have been so many disciples who were converted and instructed by him. The moon is not selfish with its reflection, but if there is no water, then its reflection will not be seen. The Buddha may be very anxious to convert all people, but if the connection he shares with them is not strong enough, then he cannot exhibit the eight phases of a Buddha’s existence. For example, the voice-hearers attained the first stage of security or the first stage of development, but so long as they followed the teachings that preceded the Lotus Sutra and sought only to regulate and save themselves, they had to postpone the attainment of the eight phases of a Buddha’s existence to some future lifetime.

---> http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/30#Part Two

 

[Cvh]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

he Great Teacher Miao-lo says in his commentary (The Annotations on “The Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra,” volume seven), “Therefore we know it is because of seeds planted in previous existences” that in the latter age one is able to hear the Law even for an instant, and having heard it, take faith in it. He also says (The Annotations on “Great Concentration and Insight,” volume two), “Having been born at the end of the Middle Day of the Law, I have been able to behold these true words of the sutra. Unless one has planted the mystic cause in a previous existence, they are truly difficult to encounter.”

---> http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/48

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Cvh]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Cvh]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[PassTheDoobie]

Hi EVERYONE!!! Just wanted you all to know that our prayers for G continue to be answered. The next two weeks is super critical. I know we all have our own problems, but this thread wouldn't be here without the support of Gypsy. PLEASE CHANT THAT THE UK TELLS THE FEDS TO FUCK OFF ONE MORE TIME>

Hello to Chris, to Bud, to everyone! Deepest thanks to WEIRD!!!! I hope you are still with me Brother? I just had Easy drop by my YouTube. Those of you who know me can PM anyone to find a link.

MY LIFE IS KICKING ASS AND TAKING NAMES AND I AM PROUD OF ALL OF MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS HELPING TO CONTINUE THIS THREAD! MUCH LOVE AND DEEPEST RESPECT TO YOU ALL!!!

THOMAS