Hello all, Yesterday, I meant to respond some more regarding my last blog and with more reasons anyone who is not yet spiritual, or doubters, or even those who might be religious but not totally bound to one particular religion, but I had a chance to go to see the Tampa Bay Rays play Minnesota and could not pass it up. Rays also won, yea!!!
I believe I ended the blog, promising to explore a but on one phase of Basic practice of the Buddhism or Nichiren Daishonin, which consists of chanting the phrase, Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.
This may sound incredible -- not only in the sense of being too good to be true but, literally, unbelievable. How can chanting a phrase one does not even understand, over and over again to a piece of paper, possibly have such an effect? What does, Nam myoho Renge Kyo mean anyway and what is so special about this scroll, the Gohonzon?
Good questions and doubltless many that will arise and hopefully answered should you decide to read the book. For now, suffice it to say that perhaps the most challenging aspect of Nirchiren's Buddhism is the way that it forces one to re-examine fundamental assumptions about the nature of life in general, and our own lives in particular. These assumptions are probably so deeply rooted that you might not even know you hold them. For example, consider the problem of suffering.
No one wants to suffer. but as we would all like to live a totally happy life, suffering is an unescapable fact of our human existance. The observance that 'Man is born into trouble, as sparks fly upward' may not have much consolation to Job, but nevertheless remains an uncomfortable truth. Generally speaking, suffering arises through our encounters with problems and difficulties; this is why much of our time is spent trying to avoid them; even though they are inherent in life. In trying to avoid problems, however, we are often simply putting off the inevitable to a future date, by which time the trouble has usually grown much more difficult to resolve.
Personal relationships are a good exmple of this. The failure to tackle a problem between two people - a clash of desires, for instance - usually for fear of not knowing what the consequences will be, or perhaps simply because of dislike of conflict, can very easily lead to a build-up of resentments which, when finally expressed, can be immensely destructive.
O.K, surely you can relate to this wisdom, if not, then you are not facing life and I suspect, might be in the midst of some similarities in your life. If so wake up.!!!!!
I'll continue this discourse shortly so stay with me, which means, please come back and learn something that might affect your total life ahead. Cheers Good old Happy, Happy CJ.
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