Chanting Growers Group

[pb4ugo]

Let's read the Gosho regularly. Even just a little is fine. Even a single sentence. Just opening the Gosho is a start. At any rate, let's strive to read the Daishonin's writings. It's important to have the spirit to study the Gosho, to open up the Gosho. Even if you forget what you've read, something profound will have been engraved in the depths of your life.

Daisaku Ikeda

So Cal,
Thank you,
I try my best to study each day and share.

The True Aspect of All Phenomena
"Without practice and study, there can be no Buddhism."
[No.40, Page 386, col 2, paragraph 17, Content]

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[EasyMyohoDisco]

Let's read the Gosho regularly. Even just a little is fine. Even a single sentence. Just opening the Gosho is a start. At any rate, let's strive to read the Daishonin's writings. It's important to have the spirit to study the Gosho, to open up the Gosho. Even if you forget what you've read, something profound will have been engraved in the depths of your life.

Daisaku Ikeda

Yep, I agree with this statement 100%

I wouldn't even go to meetings, if everything in the SGI didn't have roots in Nichiren Daishonin (Gohonzon, Writings, Reference, and most importantly the Intent).

However, I do go to meetings and host many special study meetings because STUDY is that important and is a critical foundation of our faith. Without study we cannot practice correctly, but new members are encouraged to chant before anything else so that they develop their daimoku. Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the same as reciting the daimoku of The Lotus Sutra, and in my opinion is the PHRASE THAT PAYS!

CHA-CHING!

 

[SoCal Hippy]

It is not a question of your environment or those around you, nor what the
organization or leaders may be like. To be swayed by such externals is
pointless. It all comes down to one person: you. What matters is that you become
a brilliant beacon, shining with joy and happiness, and live your life with
confidence and courage. If you shine with a radiant light, there can be no
darkness in your life.

Daisaku Ikeda


Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[SoCal Hippy]

The human spirit is the strongest force there is. As long as our spirit remains
unbroken, there is no defeat. In life, spiritual defeat always precedes actual
defeat. Guard against laziness, cowardice, carelessness, impatience, resignation
and despair which corrode the human spirit and sow the seeds of defeat.

Daisaku Ikeda


Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[PassTheDoobie]

I try my best to study each day and share.

pb

PB!!!

 

[Weird]

I try my best to study each day and share.

and I am learning the necessity that human nature seeks to takes me away from the truth every day as well, most especially my own.

its almost like the truth is there in front of you, written on your face but it is so close that you can't see it until you look into the mirror


nam myoho renge kyo

 

[pb4ugo]

Goso Passage for today Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Goso Passage for today Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

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[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

Nam myoho renge kyo

From 2010 Introductory Exam Study Guide, Page 37. www.sgi-usa.org.

Ultimately, because evil is essentially a function of ignorance, it can be defeated with wisdom.

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

PB4ugo thank you so so much for posting that

I almost fall off the seat reading it

it is as if the truth that has been forming in my mind is being taken from soul and put to paper by one much wiser than me but one who sees me and says what you see in your heart is indeed real

something I so desperately need to walk the right path but something so desperately hard to find since for me truth seems to effect the root of my heart and conscience and so much of todays interpittions of truth seem to fall short and leave a spot on my heart

here the truth elevates and feeds my being

its really so profound I feel like I might be delusional except I remember very quickly that have I lived a very long life of giving and suffering without any word but the guidance of the beat of my heart and the feeling i felt when I did right or wrong and i followed my heart without relent and walked though all the self imposed hells

in the end I found more than me, so for me and for you I will remember to chant because the reconciliation of my heart to my conscience is a gift of seeking to live in truth

sorry if I tend to be wordy and profess the same things but i need to remember this place and time and burn it in my heart so my spiritual compass is always set for home

peace love and chanting

ohh and WEEEED!!!!!

 

[Weird]

From 2010 Introductory Exam Study Guide, Page 37. www.sgi-usa.org.

Ultimately, because evil is essentially a function of ignorance, it can be defeated with wisdom.

:: big hugs for you and Mrs. B

hey brother good to see you

Much LOVE to you my friend

 

[TrichyTrichy]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[EasyMyohoDisco]

The Three Treasures in this age of the Latter Day of the Law are none other than:
1. The Law being the Gohonzon of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo!!!
2. The Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law, being Nichiren.!!!
3. The Community of Believers, being all of us believers who uphold and propagate Nichiren's teaching based on these Three Treasures to be spread and known throughout the world and into the future!!!

Mugi Wasshin! Seems to me like you're also practicing doubt-free faith my man!

I liked this presentation because it was very succinct and was the kind of language I can appreciate. My girlfriend had a huge benefit today 3+ years in the making and she's finally a student! I've cried about her not wanting to goto school for quite some time and through Rock the Era and all the regular meetings we've been having I shakubukued a friend who recieved Gohonzon last week and introduced a co-worker today who promised to come over to a youth division led toso

I'm doing kosen-rufu everyday. There is only so much we could do online and the biggest impacts are the life to life connections. I shared my life with Babba and he shared his life with me. We made a vow to join Thomas and Socal in this amazing adventure and everyday we realize that we're in soo deep there is no way out! ONLY got one option these days and its: "How can I lead others to attain the unsurpassed way?"

Mugi Wasshin my friends! MUGI WASSHIN!

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo
Great post everyone! ... what a wonderful group of Buddhas !!
Well our daughter is moving back east to finish a couple years of college. So tomorrow we take her to the airport to send her off to live many thousands of miles away. Not use to our kids being so far away. Im sure its going to be tough on Mrs.B as they are best friends. I know my daughter is protected through our chants and you know actually if I think about it there are friends right here on this thread that wont be all that far from her... you chanting growers rock Well just thought I would share a little piece of personal news with you my friends.... as it is some of what we chant about.
Much love to everyone here .. thanks for being you .
Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

It is an interesting phenomena. We can always remember when our Buddhahood effects others in our environment, but we rarely remember when our other nine worlds effected others in our environemnt.

Many times we are not even aware we have effected other people with our ten worlds. A Buddha can not achieve the way without desiring for others to do the same. This is the life of the Buddha, as well as our own life. If we can appreciate life in the same way the Buddha appreciated his own life, and the lives of others, than we can understand this one fact of our lives are all intertwined.

When we effect other people with our ten worlds, we are making causes and conditions upon others lives. No different than gravity effects everyone.. Whether we underatand or ar aware of it or not, we make the causes and we reap the effects in our own life, as well as the lives of other's.

However, when we take responsibility for the effect we have on other's lives, we awaken our Boddhisattva nature, which in turn awakens our Buddha nature. The Buddha appears within our life for other's. Nichiren Daishonin states, " The voice does the Buddha's work" WND.

When we enslave other's we enslave our self. This is simply understanding Dependant Origination. The basic building block of life, as well as General Buddhist thought. All life comes and goes and is connected to all other life, never ceasing and never gaining. Like ocean tides that rise and fall within the ocean. No beginning and no perceived ending. This is called myo or mystical or " that which is understood between the minds of Buddha's" WND.

When we free other's we free oursleves. When we hurt other's we hurt our self. We we respect other's we respect our self. When we love other's we love our self, and vice versa!

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo is no more than a mirror that reflects what we feel and what we do to our self and other's.

The Gohonzon is the physical manifestation of the Ten Worlds and the Two Buddha's, with Nam Myoho Renge Kyo in the middle with the Ten Worlds swirling around; ever-changing just likje life;and the Wonderful Law of Cause and Effect touching all Ten Worlds bringing Nam Myoho Renge Kyo to the center of our life, which in turn brings the same to the lives of others.

Nichiren Daishonin isncribed the Gohonzon for alll mankind on October 12, 1279. Nichiren Daishonin writes, "I inscribe my life in sumi ink" Nichiren Daishonin manifested the great law of life from within his own life and revealed the Gohonzon for all mankind!

Nichiren Daishonin encourages each of us to do the same!

Just when we think no one is watching, we can see our self in the mirror called life!

VegasBuddha

wow

just wow

I chant for you

nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

PTD,
Now that we can see there are ten differing life-states or worlds or realms of life, we can recognize that our actions can be associated with any one of the ten worlds at every given moment of our life. These Ten Worlds could be called "self".

But there is a more interesting phenomena occuring, that we may or may not be aware of. Normally, within every given situation, we will repond in a manner we feel comfortable with. Each of us will respond to the same set of circumstances in a different manner or style. This is what makes each of us unique. "Apple, Peach, Plum, Damson."

What predestins our basic human trait that identifies each one of us as unique is how we act or respond to any given set of circumstnces is based on our karma. Our karma is a collection of our thoughts, words, and deeds throughout the three existence of past, present, and future.

Our karma pre-destines us to react to a given situation in a given manner. We can identify our karma in the same manner as we identigy our ten Worlds. This karma could be considered our Eternal Ten Worlds.

These Eternal Ten Worlds; from Hell at the loweest to Buddhahood at the highest all exist within each of our Ten Worlds, we call self. In each of our Ten Worlds resides a prerecorded response for all of lifes situations that bring us to that world.

As an example, there is a world of hell within the worl of hell, as well as the world of Buddhahood within the world of hell. These two great life-states lay dormant until we enter that world, due to external circustances. Once we enter that world we don the robe of that world we have pre-selected for ourselves. Buddhaood or Hell.

As an example, whenever my life would come to some inexcuseable conclusion for which I could forsee the outcome, I would always seek someone else to blame for my suffering and misery, instead of accepting my suferuign as a form of growth. One is the life-state of hunger, and the other is the life-state of Buddhahood. All the other Eternal Ten Worlds work in a similar manner.

Observing this action from a buddhist persepective, we can only come one logical conlcusion. If we expect to change our response to a given situation, we will have to change the life-state of that recorded response, i.e. we must chant nam myoho renge kyo to the Gohonzon in order have the wisdom to recognize our response pattern, and change it. In this manner, we can elevate our recorreded responses to a higher life-state. We can acomplish human revolution or self mastery.

This process is called changing earthly desires into enlightenment. What troubles us, will truly lead us to our ultimate happiness. A Joyful practice in the saha world. When we chant to the Gohonzo with this type of understanding we can begin to elevate our own expectations of the outcomes instead accept whatever comes comes.This is, I believe, manifesting the True Cause and True Effect, simultaneously.

Our Eternal Ten Worlds are inter-connected to the Great Law of Life itself, called Myoho Renge Kyo, Thus Come One. The Great Buddha of All life itself. We all are connected to this One Great Buddha and each other through this One Law of Life called myoho renge kyo. When we chant with the understanding our life is not just one life, but is inter-connected with all life, than we can we realize our Vow to save All living beings; The Four Debts of gratitude. The most basic teaching of Buddhism.

The debt of gratitude owed to All living Beings, The debt of gratitude owed to our mother and father, the debt of gratitude owed to our teacher, and the debt of gratitude owed to our sovereign.

VegasBuddha

i just cant stop crying as the reality of this sinks in

i can remember the very time and place when two very special people took me aside and planted the seed of karmic right in my heart, a compass to predestine my choices (karmic choices) as i suffered through many many unspeakable hells of those around me


if it were not for the compassion of a stranger for a stranger (the bodhisattva), someone who sought peace for others out of pure love and compassion (or perhaps out of the sacred reverence for life the feeling of the 4 debts ) i may not be here today and i would not have made the same choices i may never had the chance to hear or chant nam myoho renge kyo

and yes as if it were written in my soul the choices I have made to release myself from the hells of each world

but it was not of my own design, but because the love that resided in some one else for me

thank you

my personal hells were no longer eternal because of the good works of the Buddha who decided i deserved to make right karmic choice and be free

so can I say its safe to assume the enlightenment the bodhisattva found ( that he.she was freed from his own hells by the the gift of good karmic choice from Buddha) through the compassion of giving to others is where the debt of gratitude is born and why it calls to be fulfilled so strongly, fortified by the courage wisdom and truth that comes from and is nam myoho renge kyo?

regardless I couldn't identify the source of gratitude flooding my heart and why,and knowing that this for me is the case, it brings me to tears

not tears of suffering but tears of freedom and joy

yes i am grateful

because of you i am me

and because i know it i will be you for every one else and I will do so by chanting

nam myoho renge kyo

nam myoho renge kyo

nam myoho renge kyo

i am simply blown fucking away

and when the heart is full the eyes over flow

i only hope I can plant the same good seed that was planted in me

 

[pb4ugo]

Gosho Passage for today wednday, August 25th, 2010

Gosho Passage for today wednday, August 25th, 2010

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[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo
Wooooooooooooop !! awesome post today guys !! Thanks so much !
Up Early to take my daughter to the airport. Get to take in another ball game while there Cinn vs Giants . Should be lots of fun.
Of course we always stop at the Soka Gakkai for a good recharge while there
Hope today brings much joy to everyone !
Nam myoho renge kyo
Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[straintester]

To be fearless no matter what happens -- that is the root of true happiness. To
move forward resolutely regardless of what lies in store -- that is the spirit,
the resolve, that leads to human victory. But if we allow ourselves to be
disturbed by petty criticism and slander, if we fear pressure and persecution,
we will never advance or create anything of lasting value.

Daisaku Ikeda

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

This thread enchants me everytime I read it but unfortunately I am not a Buddhist. In fact I don't practice any type of religion but have always been fascinated with buddhism as it is the closest to my beliefs.
To find a group of people who share the same type of spiritual beliefs AND an interest in cannabis sounds too good to be true.
I'd love to be a part of this group if you'll have me.

Where should I start?
Is there a book that I can start reading so I can join this discussion?
I would love to practice some form of spirituality on a daily bases and have others to share it with.

 

[TrichyTrichy]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[straintester]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

Was this an answer to my question or just the morning chant ritual?