Category: compassion

Lotus Path Volume 2, Available Now – Book – August 14, 2019

Print Edition Digital Edition  Now available in both print and digital versions the second volume of Lotus Path. Collection of short essays written to help encourage and deepen faith and practice of the Lotus Sutra to attain enlightenment.The practice of Buddhism is about changing our lives deep at the core. Buddhism calls on us to examine the causes of our suffering in brutal honesty. After making this self-assessment we then take the next step and…

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Pebble – Dharma Talk – June 20, 2019

Good morning (13 March 2011 Sunday Morning Service).  Thank you all for coming to the temple today and thank you to all the folks who have joined us online as well.  Today we gathered together as a Sangha and celebrated the day praising the Lotus Sutra by reciting passages and chanting the Odaimoku, the sacred title.  As it says in the sutra we have partaken of the medicine, which is good in flavor and color…

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Cuestiones Importantes: Sutra del Loto, Fé y Práctica (Spanish Edition) – Book Release – May 13, 2019

I am very pleased to announce the Spanish language translation of my book Important Matters.  Thanks to the hard work of Gonzalo Peña and his readers this is what I hope will be the first of many Spanish translations of my books.   In the Spanish version of the book I note that when an author writes it is easy to communicate with native language readers.  However when a translation emerges then it is a team…

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Instructions for Performing Daily Service – Movie – May 13, 2019

Instructions for Performing Daily Service in Nichiren Shu  Presented in this video is basic instruction for performing your daily service at home. For me and the way I teach it is important to consider and understand the reality of various lives. Many people, who due to various situations in their lives, are unable to make time to do a complete service. Some, perhaps those working two jobs and caring for children, live in a different…

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