Chanting Growers Group (2013-∞)

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Forest20]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

"Misfortune comes from one's mouth and ruins one, but fortune comes from one's heart and makes one worthy of respect."

(New Year's Gosho - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 1137) Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, January 24th, 2013

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[easyDaimoku]

The besssssst!

The besssssst!

As always Bud, it was all for you. Just like this whole darned thread! Thanks to all who continue to advance in faith here.

These are from my friend George. He just started recently posting these--maybe one a week. I hoped at least one person would find it interesting or encouraging and of course Bud, I genuinely did think of you (And Weird, and Chris, and Trichy, and Forest, and everyone here that I think of so often and care for so much).

G is still struggling to get from where he is to where he wants to be. Please! Never stop chanting for him!!!

Much love and deepest respect!

T

Here's one more: https://youtu.be/W6xDEicTb9k

I only have one video left to digest! Please tell George to give us some more!

This thread continues to be my treasured lifeline to kindred Bodhisattvas of the Earth, so diverse, yet all so Buddharific! We're so special so special so special!

Thanks to everyone especially the PTDs, the Babbas, Weirds, Forest, SoCal, GIS, Bonz, everybody! We're living the dream!

 

[Bonzo]

Happy Halloween my friends!

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

woohoo!

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[kokomarin]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[easyDaimoku]

I want to thank Tony Matsuoka, Ted Osaki, Sensei Toda, President Ikeda, Thomas, George, and Babba always and forever. The lectures on President Ikeda's Heart of The Lotus Sutra came at the right time.

I have been teetering on the brink of insanity, I've been so fucked up and never thought I'd be in this position or station in life. Yet my faith sustains me, these studies encourage me, and my spirit keeps going forward. Sansho shima is what keeps me back, I'm still persevering though, against all odds.

Somedays i feel like I need to quit and lately, i have quit momentarily. Some nights I've expected to surely die and then the next day is upon me.

In two weeks I'll finish my masters in business administration, then I will continue going to school for fashion and design. I am sp grateful that the Babbas showed me love and PTD looked out for me. In a couple weeks I'll begin the final edits for my book, a compilation of poetry developed in yhe last three years. All this, is due to our Chanting growers movement.

Much love and appreciation to all!

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Babbabud]

nam myoho renge kyo

 

[LyryC]

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

Eye would like to share what love and light eye have left!

Eye would also like to ask if a few chants can be shared to help rekindle my soul. Going through a difficult spiritual time.

Thank you! Namaste

Sat Nam

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Payaso]

Great to hear from you Easy... hang in there! The last few weeks is always the toughest... and then its on to the next phase!

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo!

We'll be chanting for you

Thank you Weird for keeping the thread alive!

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo!

I have been tooooo busy helping create a new front end format for this place to feature articles about the Cannagraphic by and for the members...

It sure would be wonderful to have an article about the Chanting Growers and what they have accomplished over the many years

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo!

A BIG shout out to PTD Thomas, Gyspy and all others!

~Nam Myoho Renge Kyo!

Chanting Daily

 

[LyryC]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

I was asked to write about the thread for an article to be published in the magazine and it has been a difficult task because I do not want to add my own take but I also can't represent it in a vein other than those who started it and contributed to it agree.

I haven't been posting here as much but I have been chanting more, studying more and trying to further my practice as a way to deal with trying times. It works, but that is too short a article.

I can come back and edit this post to reflect changes. The xxs represent places I wanted to go back through the first chanting thread and get some things form it like exact date and what pass the Doobie has posted as the meaning of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. Feel free to add anyhting you think needs to be added.

I was asked to write about the chanting thread, why is it still here after all these years. Well simply put it is here because people still continue the practice, but then that leaves open the question of what that practice actually is.

I have found it a difficult position to answer this question, not because there is a lack of propagation of the practice within my life, but rather that in my practice, I am nothing more than a simple practitioner, and while I have practiced for some time I do not consider myself an indoctrinated representative of the practice from any particular school or teacher formally enough to say I should be considered as such. I am simply someone with whom the practice has resonated and this thread has become a place to practice it.

The thread is called the chanting growers group and was founded 10 years ago by Passthedoobie, a member of our community. It introduces, encourages, educates and propagates the practice of chanting Buddhism, or more appropriately Nichiren Buddhism. For me this practice can most simply be summed up as it being the most efficient means to live your life to the fullest potential while facilitating the same in others. It evokes joy within and harmony among others, as this is the underlying foundation of our fullest potential.

Its practitioners believe it to be the most expedient means of Buddhism available. This is because it facilitates the propagation of Buddhism in others while one is the process of practicing it to benefit oneself. This is simply manifested by chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. The translated meaning of this is XXXXX. In learning the nature of causation in regards to human nature we become enlightened to the meaning of the ten spiritual realms and how we can be in possession of those realms which allows us to be Buddha.

Being Buddha is not a power over anything other than the human conditions that arise in ourselves and undermine the quality of our lives and being Buddha does not give us power of other humans, but it allows us to help facilitate Buddhism in others through faith in our practice and through selfless giving in compassionate understanding of the human condition. This is the realm known as Bodhisattva. The capacity to understand the human condition and thrive within the framework of it is the prize, one we all rightfully deserve. This thread has been a place for many who are foreign to the practice to go and start practicing with no other requirement other than to join in, chant, chant to your plants, put into play the simple action which is ultimately a form of "paying it forward" and see fi there is causation in your life. If it makes sense to you and someone is interested, share it with them. There is no commitment other than that, no requirement other than self fulfillment. This is why this thread exists and continues to propagate Nichiren Buddhism today

To learn more about Nichiren Buddhism and things like the ten realms visit .... XXX eds can decide