Top of the Week to you all, may your whole week be a happy one. I'd like to mention one piece of wisdom right here, for starters, and KEEP THIS IN MIND because it is true and inevitable !!!
The 'Effects' you will experience in the future, will exist from the 'Causes' you make today.
When I completed my last blog friday, it ended with the example, "That a Poor Man cannot earn a penny just by counting his neighbor's wealth, even if he does so, day and night".
The implication of the denial is that, human beings are totally responsible for their own destinies. The ramifications of this throw into sharp relief the differences between the teachings of Christianity, centered on God, and those of Buddhism centered on the human being.
For example, while both doctrines stress the importance of prayer as a means of relating to either God or the universal Law, the attitude behind the prayer differs markedly. In Christ-ianity, prayer is essentially an act of humility: one tries to discover and carry out God's will here on earth and asks for His help, inspiration or foregiveness in the face of the problems and sufferings one might encounter.
In Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism, prayer takes the form of chanting NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO , which reveals one's inherent Buddhahood, the highest state of one's life. In other word's, rather than ask for help from without, whilst chanting, you summon up the courage and wisdom from within your own life in order to confront and overcome any problem you may be facing.
In addition to this, by chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo you reveal the Law in your own life, thereby putting putting yourself in harmony, or rhythmm with the universal Law.
To explain further, Buddhism teaches that everything in the universe is an expression of this Law and acts in accordance with it.
'Law' here is used in the scientific rather than the legal sense, in that we 'obey' the Law of Nam myoho Renge Kyo' in the same way as we 'obey' the law of Gravity. If we act contrary to the law of gravity - by walking off a tall building, say - we usually suffer grave consequences. Similarly, if we go against the Law of Life - for example, by denying cause and effect, a central aspect of this Law - eventually, and inevitably, we will end up suffering. **********
Right here is a great way to end this first blog of the week. I shall continue this study and wisdom, for a bit more. Be assured I will, when I consider something important to political America, be back with my commentary, and you'd be dumb not to follow this blog. Think not??
Well, just you wait and see, if you continue to ignore it.
A short story------- A man visited his Doctor and said to him, "I have visited 3 other Doctors and eveyone disagrees with you".
His Doctor just nodded his head and said " Well, when you see the autopsy, you will find out that I was right".
Cheers. CJ
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