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No Escape – October 2, 2012 Meditation
Namu – Dharma Talk – June 18, 2019
Tonight’s Dharma talk is on Namu, your relationship with Namu, your lived expression of Namu, your manifestation of Namu, the results of Namu; the oneness of subject and object. The book referenced in the video can be purchased from Amazon by clicking on the image link below. For further study of the Lotus Sutra perhaps you may find this book helpful. or the kindle version
Namu And You – Devotion – Part 1 – June 18, 2019
Namu is not merely a prefix to Myoho Renge Kyo, the full title to the Lotus Sutra. It is not merely an appending of one word, Namaste, to the other words of the title. Instead, it is a relational marker, which ties us and our invocation of the title to the contents of the Lotus Sutra. As such, it is important, regardless of how we say it, to be mindful of the implication of its…
Namu And You – The Formula – Part 3 – June 17, 2019
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo is what we chant as our primary faith practice, our most important ritual practice in Nichiren Buddhism. More than one person has been confused about what is our primary most important practice. It is easy enough to misunderstand that more than chanting the sutra or a portion of the sutra the chanting of Odaimoku is where our practice is supposed to be centered. Given the nature of time constraints and other…
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…