fallenangel
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hey all ,, just wanted to say hi ,, and tell everyone how good i feel !!! the garden looks great ,, i feel great .. nam myoho renge kyo !!!
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If a vessel is free of these four faults of overturning, leaking, being defiled, and being mixed, then it can be called a perfect vessel. If the embankments around a moat do not leak, then the water will never escape from the moat. And if the mind of faith is perfect, then the water of wisdom, the great impartial wisdom, will never dry up.
[ Letter to Akimoto, WND Page 1015 ]
[ Letter to Akimoto, WND Page 1015 ]
Please be sure to keep our good friend and fellow bodhisattva DutchGrown in your chants.
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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
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Thanks as always for the heads-up on that, Bud. You always have everybody's back. I deeply respect that about you. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo!
DG, somehow I feel responsible! It's late now, but I will get some serious Daimoku out to you in the AM. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo!
I hope you are able to figure out exactly what made you sick. That would be a good thing to know. I know you will be better, but it sucks you had to deal with that much dehydration. You poor thing.
I hope the experience doesn't make you phobic about that part of the world.
Much love,
Thomas
DG, somehow I feel responsible! It's late now, but I will get some serious Daimoku out to you in the AM. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo!
I hope you are able to figure out exactly what made you sick. That would be a good thing to know. I know you will be better, but it sucks you had to deal with that much dehydration. You poor thing.
I hope the experience doesn't make you phobic about that part of the world.
Much love,
Thomas
"To joyfully give one's own time and resources for the sake of kosen-rufu is the noble behaviour of a bodhisattva. That spirit of faith is certain to manifest itself as infinite good fortune and benefit."
SGI Newsletter No. 7078, The New Human Revolution—Vol. 19: Chap. 2, Song of Triumph 29, trans. Jan 15th, 2007
SGI Newsletter No. 7078, The New Human Revolution—Vol. 19: Chap. 2, Song of Triumph 29, trans. Jan 15th, 2007
Let others hate you if they will. What have you to complain of, if you are cherished by Shakyamuni Buddha, Many Treasures Buddha, and the Buddhas of the ten directions, as well as by Brahma, Shakra, and the gods of the sun and the moon? As long as you are praised by the Lotus Sutra, what cause have you for discontent?
[ The Unity of Husband and Wife, WND Page 464 ]
[ The Unity of Husband and Wife, WND Page 464 ]
"You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. This is not an easy struggle. Indeed, it may be the most difficult task in the world, for opening the door to your own life is, in the end, more difficult than opening the doors to the mysteries of the universe".
-Daisaku Ikeda
-Daisaku Ikeda
"In the light of the above points, this shows, my followers, that you had better cut short your sleep by night and curtail your leisure by day, and ponder this! You must not spend your lives in vain and regret it for ten thousand years to come."
(The Problem to be Pondered Night and Day - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 622) Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, January 16th, 2007
(The Problem to be Pondered Night and Day - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 622) Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, January 16th, 2007
Understand then that the votary who practices the Lotus Sutra exactly as the Buddha teaches will without fail be attacked by the three powerful enemies. In the more than two thousand years that have passed since the Buddha's advent, Shakyamuni himself, T'ien-t'ai and Dengyo were the only three who perfectly carried out the Buddha's teachings. Now in the Latter Day of the Law, Nichiren and his disciples and lay believers are just such practitioners.
[ On Practicing the Buddha's Teachings, WND Page 395 ]
[ On Practicing the Buddha's Teachings, WND Page 395 ]
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"The practice of the Lotus Sutra is shakubuku, the refutation of the provisional doctrines."
(Major Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, an excerpt from On Practicing the Buddha's Teachings Vol. 1, p. 99-107.)
(Major Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, an excerpt from On Practicing the Buddha's Teachings Vol. 1, p. 99-107.)
"Let others hate you if they will. What have you to complain of, if you
are cherished by Shakyamuni Buddha, Many Treasures Buddha, and the
Buddhas of the ten directions, as well as by Brahma, Shakra, and the
gods of the sun and moon? As long as you are praised by the Lotus
Sutra, what cause have you for discontent?"
(WND, 464)
The Unity of Husband and Wife
Written to Nichigen-nyo on January 27, 1275
are cherished by Shakyamuni Buddha, Many Treasures Buddha, and the
Buddhas of the ten directions, as well as by Brahma, Shakra, and the
gods of the sun and moon? As long as you are praised by the Lotus
Sutra, what cause have you for discontent?"
(WND, 464)
The Unity of Husband and Wife
Written to Nichigen-nyo on January 27, 1275
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
I have always been able to make my way in the world because i understood hard work. The last couple weeks I have been going through some physical things and found it hard to keep up. I have a hard time doing what I need to do at work. I find this a source of irratation and sometimes my mood is not what I wish it to be. Im sure ive been hard on some of the people around me lately. Frustration is a heavy stone. I chant but need to spend more time in front of my gohonzon i guess. I have an appt with the doc first part of feb. To any that I may not have been myself lately or not had the patience that perhaps I should have ... i apologize. Forward from this point on. Chanting as we go.
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo Thanks for being here you guys.
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
I have always been able to make my way in the world because i understood hard work. The last couple weeks I have been going through some physical things and found it hard to keep up. I have a hard time doing what I need to do at work. I find this a source of irratation and sometimes my mood is not what I wish it to be. Im sure ive been hard on some of the people around me lately. Frustration is a heavy stone. I chant but need to spend more time in front of my gohonzon i guess. I have an appt with the doc first part of feb. To any that I may not have been myself lately or not had the patience that perhaps I should have ... i apologize. Forward from this point on. Chanting as we go.
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo Thanks for being here you guys.
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
And I want to give you a real big THANK YOU Babba for being here always!!! Your strong seeking spirit and determination in your life encourages me more than you know. Sometimes (or I should say always) the bad shit has to come out first before we will see the great changes we are seeking. My chants are with you and any others on this thread that are having serious challenges or difficulties.
Like the roar of the Lion: "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo!"
Like the roar of the Lion: "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo!"
My disciples, you should believe what I say and watch what happens. These things do not occur because I myself am respectworthy, but because the power of the Lotus Sutra is supreme. If I praise myself, people will think that I am boastful, but if I humble myself, they will despise the sutra. The taller the pine tree, the longer the wisteria vine hanging from it. The deeper the source, the longer the stream. How fortunate, how joyful! In this impure land, I alone enjoy true happiness and delight.
[ A Sage Perceives the Three Existences of Life, WND Page 642 ]
[ A Sage Perceives the Three Existences of Life, WND Page 642 ]
Bud, cut yourself some slack! Attaining anuttara-samyak-sambodhi in this lifetime has nothing to do with becoming jesus christ. Not a single thing!
PTD sometimes I think things go over my head like the birds. Are you referring to some sort of guilt I hold at not being able to do what I expect of myself ?? I guess it is the american way at times 
Im really not that studied in the christian or catholic thing.
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
Im really not that studied in the christian or catholic thing. Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
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