RELIGION or POLITICS - Why Buddhism?? The incredible 9th consciousness

Again much of the contents herein are taken from the book "Unlocking the Mysteries of Birth and Death, byDaisaku Ikeda, President of Soka Gakkai International.)


Everyone who is not wholly dedicated to a religion, or who is spiritual and open minded about religion,

should seriously consider .... "Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism, the Buddhism of the SUN."


Hi ladies and gentlemen:  Guess you are about now revving up to have a glorious weekend. Me too. But for you all, I'm starting in on explaining the Ninth Consciousness, and it takes care of all your life's problems if you will adhere to the rules of Life as laid out in the philosophy by Nichiren Buddhism. So off we go.


NOT ONLY OUR THOUGHTS BUT ALSO OR WORDS AND DEEDS ARE REGISTERED DEEP IN OUR LIVES.  OUR KARMA COMBINES BOTH GOOD AND BAD, OR ENLIGHTMENT AND DELUSION  -- OPPOSING FORCES LOCKE IN A NEVER-ENDING STRUGGLE.   BASE ON COMPASSION, WE CAN AROUSE A DETERMINATION TO MAKE CAUSES THAT OFFSET THE KARMIC EFFECTS IMPRINTED ON THE ALAYA-CONSCIOUSNESS THROUGH DELUSION.   WE CAN WORK TOWARD SELF-REFORMATION BY BREAKING THROUGH THE WALLS OF EGOISM AND DEDICATING OUR LIVES  TO THE BENEFIT OF OTHERS.   IN THIS WAY, WE CAN SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT THE ALAYA-CONSCIOUSNESS.

Theoretically,  to overcome the negative influences of past deeds, we would have to spend as long a time making good causes as we spent accumulating bad ones since the infinite past -- replacing each bad seed in the storehouse with a good seed one by one. And we would carefully have to avoid adding new bad causes!   Changing our destiny would seem almost impossible, then, since we live in what some Buddhist scriptures call a "defiled age" in which we cannot help creating bad karmic causes.  But this bleak outlook stems from a cause-and-effect theory grounded in only the first eight consciousnesses. 

The nine consciousnesses concept explains that we can radically break through our accumulated bad karma.   Nichiren teaches that even people of little virtue or who have committed great offenses, will, by accessing the deeper currents of life,  receive the same effects as if they had made many good causes in the past.   How  does this work????

Right here, friends, is where I get off the the weekend, though I may through some wisdom in my blog over the weekend before monday. But I will go on with the Ninth Consciousness then, and you will find this more and more interesting, that is, if you are truely spiritually minded and wanting to be in the state of ABSOLUTE HAPPINESS.        Cheers       CJ