Talk at Johnson C. Smith January 20, 2010 Nichiren Shonin the founder of Nichiren Buddhism was a 13th Century Buddhist reform priest who taught that the way to Enlightenment was through the single practice of the Lotus Sutra. He crystallized this practice as the recitation of the Sacred Title or Odaimoku Namu Myoho Renge Kyo. He believed that if all people adhered to the principles as taught in the Lotus Sutra that we could all…
Good Afternoon. Thank you all for coming today. I would like to thank the following: Rev. Faulconer Rev. Ryuei McCormick (from San Jose to be an official witness) Visiting Ministers Shami Ryunen Sorenson Haru – flowers Members and Friends of Nichiren Buddhist Temple Hoto-ji My Friends and classmates at PSU Karen Shawcross My parents Today I hope you will bear with me for a brief while longer, it has been a long ceremony for you…
Time – Dharma Talk – May 10, 2009 Today I would like to talk a little about time. In two weeks I’ll be giving a lecture on Nichiren’s Major Writing – Senji Sho which in English is abbreviated as On Selection of Time. In this writing Nichiren lays out the argument that this time in which we live, this time called the Age of Degeneration of the True Law, the time in which the efficacy…
Today I would like to talk about our daily service, our recitation of the sutra and what it is all about. Perhaps some of you already know this, yet others do not. At its core, our daily practice is about participating in the events that take place in the Lotus Sutra. We are in one sense recreating the actual Sutra in our daily practice, even if it is only an abbreviated form. The heart of…
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