Category: Buddhism

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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Namu And You – The Formula – Part 2 – June 16, 2019

After a couple of weeks of illness let me get back to this writing.  There are some myths floating around that Nichiren was the fist person to chant Namu Myoho Renge Kyo, or that it was his creation.  There is no to support these myths.  In fact there is a wealth of scholarly research to the contrary.  Before Nichiren the practice of chanting Namu Myoho Renge Kyo was engaged in as a death bed ritual,…

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Namu And You – The Formula – Part 1 – June 2, 2019

If your experience of first contact with Nichiren Buddhism was like mine, and I suspect for most people it was, you were simply instructed to chant some strange phrase either Na Myoho Renge Kyo or Namu Myoho Renge Kyo.  You may have been told that simply by repeating this strange expression over and over that you could become happy, or get anything you wanted, or overcome any problem in your life.  You may have been…

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Thus Have I Heard- Dharma Talk – Podcast – June 2, 2019

Thus Have I Heard – Dharma Talk This is the audio recording of the Dharma talk I gave to temple members on the morning of June 2, 2019 on “Thus have I heard” which is the opening phrase of the Lotus Sutra.  The material come from the book Important Matters.   If you enjoyed this podcast please consider making a donation to help spread the Dharma.  You may do so by clicking on the PayPal button…

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