Why A Different Gongyo Book Available now for order for order on Create Space an Amazon subsidiary and on Amazon as well, is a new Nichiren Shu Gongyo book I have published. You may wonder why such an offering, that’s a fair question. I’ll take a little time now and share with you my motivation and what I hope to accomplish. There are several options out there for Gongyo books, all of them good. The…
Sutra Study Guide Today I would like to offer you a strategic way you might want to use when you are studying the Lotus Sutra. You may or may not find it a useful tool, that is alright. Perhaps it will help you develope a tool for yourself. However it may be nice place to begin. Some people benefit from a structured or guided study approach so this my help them. Others do not want…
Continuing from Part I on March 23, 2013 Tip number six is to get a good night’s sleep. I know that sometimes this can be difficult to do. For example, as I have gotten older it has become increasingly difficult to sleep the entire night. And I fondly remember the times when I could sleep for hours and hours at a time but as a person gets older they also sometimes require less sleep. Getting…
Harvest Versus Sowing I was thinking the other day about the Fivefold Comparison Nichiren outlined in his writing Kaimoku Sho, wherein he lays out a system of comparisons establishing the superiority of chanting Namu Myoho Renge Kyo. The series of comparison ends with the Buddhism of sowing being superior to the Buddhism of harvest. That is, chanting Odaimoku is superior to those who obtain benefit in this lifetime because of meritorious deeds performed in the…
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