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…
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…
Opening – March 25, 2013 Meditation Meditation, whether silent or chanting Odaimoku, is an opportunity to open our lives to the Buddha within. It isn’t that the Buddha within is only present during these times, but it is these moments when we are able to actually be present to our deeper self. Much of our day is filled with numerous activities, which drown out the soft voice of enlightenment. This soft voice is within, but…
The third paramita or perfection is patience. Ah, patience…. That elusive trait that I have difficulties in giving to others and in giving to myself. As I was thinking about this it occurred to me that it is different than being tolerant, at least as I see it. Let me give an example to see if you can follow my thinking. If I tolerate something that someone is doing then I am ‘granting’ them or…
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