The buddhahood Podcast: Recent Episodes
Sylvain Chamberlain
Advanced Mahayana Buddhist practice in plain language from the Threefold Lotus Kwoon. Scholarship from Shakyamuni through to Nichiren and today. This is Quantum Life Buddhism!
MahaPariNirvana Part 53.
On the Parable of the Moon. Like the Birds parable, here Shakyamuni uses the perception of the Moon from the vantage of humans on the Earth and our various labels and descriptions for waning and waxing phases of the Moon; all the while the Moon simply is and remains unchanged in orbit.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 52. On the Parable of the Birds. Shakyamuni Buddha uses the parable of the Mandarin Duck and the duck’s inner insights in the personage of a Fanciful bird named the Kacalindikaka, to illustrate the difference between physical and conjured “realities”..
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MahaPariNirvana Part 51. On the Parable of the Birds. Kashyapa continues to have trouble conceiving of the potential of energies and the expression of that potential as one and the same , but separate only by the deluded mind of identification (Samsara).
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LOVE - Part 2. With these few terms we can define the Engine of Life, the experience of Buddhahood, and the Samsaric delusion that drives our physical desires. “Earthly desires” used to develop our Enlightenment, as Nichiren would encourage us, to discover the profound Love of Buddhist compassion 24/7.
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LOVE - Part 1. What is “love”? As a Buddhist, how should I understand love? Is love a useful emotion or something else? Is love just lust with some respect?
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MahaPariNirvana Part 50. Our effective practice and propagation is a result of great attention to our use of language in transmitting correctly the teachings of Shakyamuni and Nichiren. Is our attitude and intent pure, honest, true?
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MahaPariNirvana Part 49. How do we communicate the teachings and our experience of the practice? Is our attitude and intent pure, honest, true?
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How long does it take? How do we know? Shakyamuni breaks down the reality of human mind and practice; the way information is twisted and disseminated with false views; and finally realization.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 47. Shakyamuni digs into the difference of potential and the expression of potential. He uses the analogies of butter, milk, cream and ghee to illustrate potential within all beings and the need for a process to express the potential, Buddhahood. That potential already “exists” within the human being, but can only be expressed through the process of the practice.
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The three treasures (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha) are in fact, one. As the three bodies of Buddha are also but three aspects of the committed invocation of our 9th consciousness and the experience of the Engine of Life through the Tathagata-field.
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The three treasures (Buddha, Dharma, Sangha) are in fact, one. As the three bodies of Buddha are also but three aspects of the committed invocation of our 9th consciousness and the experience of the Engine of Life.
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Chapter 12 takes another straight stab at the differentiation of Tathagata-garbha or Tathagata-field (the potential of) versus the expression of energies as Buddha experience.
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Chapter 11 takes the Four Inversions and dives into the Saha expression of the Tathagata Field in the experience of the Buddha Mind. That the two are one and not two. And the inversions are the result of misunderstanding the one as two.
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Chapter 10 takes us back to the 4 Noble Truths. Yet, in this talk, these same teachings are given much more developed exploration into the truth of emancipation via the mind’s awakening of the Buddha consciousness.
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Closing out chapter 9, Attitude and Intent is tied specifically tour correct practice as separate from our mundane Earthly life.
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CRITICISM. Attitude. Intent. Criticism is about actions; what actions are doing, what actions can be taken, what is the goal of our actions? We must use our Buddhist Bodhisattva training.
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Buddhism is about the mind. Attitude and Intent.
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Right and Wrong. This is a chapter on the practice of Shakyamunibuddha's teachings and their proper promulgation.
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Closing chapter 8, we find the final refrain from Shakyamuni to be diligent in our mental efforts to grasp the meaning and intent in the stories and lessons of the teachings.
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A continuation of the teachings so clearly repeated by Nichiren; to follow the “Law” and not the “Person”; Seek meaning rather than adhere to the words; and to experience the Dharma by instantiating Buddha is the only goal.
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Attitude. Intent. Shakyamuni’s words resonate through Nichiren. Our practice is our guide, “...follow the Law, not the Person”, allowing no others in thought word or deed to impede our sharing and practice of the Mahayana and our praise for all those who seek the path of the Lotus.
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Resolve. Steadfastness. Shakyamuni’s words resonate through Nichiren. Our practice is our guide, “...follow the Law, not the Person”, allowing no others in thought word or deed to impede our sharing and practice of the Mahayana.
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We begin Chapter 8 with a reminder f the purpose of this collection of teachings to lead capacity to the jewel of the Lotus Sutra.
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We close with the final realization from Kashyapa that language belongs to the domain of expedient devices and stories within the realm of name and form and Samsara, while experience and potential are without limit and unbound in “time”.
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Emancipation is the Tathagata Field, Nirvana, and Buddhaness.
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Emancipation is the experience within the realms of name and form (Nama-Rupa) of the expressed potential of the Tathagata Field. Buddhaness.
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Emancipation is a word that indicates separation, a turning away and a release, liberation, or, in another word, Nirvana. It is important to keep in mind that this emancipation is not given or earned; nirvana is arrived at by one’s own effort and therefor one’s reward manifested.
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The interstitial space of thought, the mind, and life is once again the conundrum of early Buddhist teaching seemingly contradicting the clarity of the Mahayana teachings. Life as “verb”; as action, momentum and ephemeral; rather than “Life” as static condition, thing, or permanent in the realm of forms.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 28. Shakyamuni continues his examples of Buddhaness as experienced consciousness, via the potential inherent in all phenomena to express this state of “being”.
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Shakyamuni uses the rhetoric of his dual existence to again drive home the point that all phenomena inherit Tathagata potential. He speaks of himself in the realm of form (human) and in the realm of expressed Tathagata as Buddha.
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In his way of the use of simile, personages, and Energy Potentials as “places in time”, Shakyamuni speaks of the 3 entities of birth with all inherent consciousnesses including Buddhahood; and his implementation of enlightenment as a gradually revealed entity in the mundane world.
The difference of thought versus experience; Samsara versus Clarity. What “is” or “is not” are both expressions of what can be, and nothing more.
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Prohibitions and “rules” were intended for specific stages of monks students in adjusting their attitudes and intent. All these were directed to propagation of the ultimate teachings.
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Chapter 7 on the Four Virtues, is a detailed reminder of the teachings of the Lotus Bodhisattva Mahasattva through the concepts of Actualizing and Sharing our practice in our daily activities and the influence of others.
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Chapter 6 on the Virtue of the Name is a detailed reminder of the teachings of the Lotus Bodhisattva Mahasattva through the concepts of the “Maha” (Eternal), “Pari” (final or ultimate), Nirvana (cessation of Samsara).
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In closing, the expression of Tathagata-field Potential, the “adamantine body” is the enduring influence of your Buddha-hood in the community of mankind. Unbound by physical survival, influence reverberates through the minds of encounters without end. This is especially manifest as the reward of protection and promulgation of the Wonderful Dharma (Lotus Teaching).
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MahaPariNirvana Part 20. The “adamantine body” is the enduring influence of your Buddha-hood in the community of mankind. Unbound by physical survival, influence reverberates through the minds of encounters without end.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 19. We close chapter four with the reminder that the Engine of Life is the process of all phenomena, that formations are karma, and that this understanding comes with the 9th consciousness.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 18. Who is the “Teacher” and to whom is the “Student? Ultimately it is we, in our own minds, to whom the experience of the world, life, is the teacher and student. This is an a priori mind-shift, a transcendence of “reality” as the illusion of “things” to the awakening of the “reality” of thought as experience.
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A lesson on parenting to all those students and people whose lives we touch. Always be the exemplar, the teacher, the maintenance of the aspiration to Buddhahood.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 16. “On Long Life” begins with Shakyamuni asking for questions to resolve any and all doubts remaining in the collected students of this congregation prior to his parinirvana.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 15. We close this chapter with a description of “Realms”. A list could be made of these descriptions to add to the discussions of later centuries about the 3000 Realms of Samsaric influence acting on our moment to moment consciousnesses to impede or support our resolve in the practice of enlightenment.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 14. Once again, Shakyamunibuddha is determined to have these monks understand that they have taken their understanding to be complete truth, when in fact, it is only superficial and not yet complete and profound.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 13. In this portion of the chapter, Shakyamunibuddha impresses on the monks the importance of transcending the language of practice to attain the intent and meaning of the stories and words of teaching for the “experience” of perception.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 12. In this chapter “On Grief”, we may well ask if it is the grief of Shakyamuni that he must bare the unwavering clinging to illusions of the Semblance Dharma in the monks assembled.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 11. Cunda makes his leave, and no sooner do the crowds commence with the whining. How must Shakyamuni get through to them before departing?
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MahaPariNirvana Part 10. Shakyamunibuddha finally reaches Cunda. The nature of Tathagata as potential is established and the experience of Buddha built into the framework of the sentient mind.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 9. Manjushri aids in Cunda’s realizations, and yet Cunda continues to struggle in confidence of his own ability to awaken.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 8. Cunda argues with Manjushri on the central point of Shakyamuni’s Lotus teaching.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 7. Cunda discovers his Buddha Consciousness and Shakyamuni exhorts him to teach and support all those he can.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 6. Chapter 2 introduces the upasaka Cunda to us for the first time. And with him we begin the long back and forth of many questioners of Shakyamuni to resolve their capacity to understand.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 5. We close this first chapter prepared for some big revelations to come to the whole of the sentient community.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 4. The procession continues as more and more offerings are offered while Shakyamunibuddha remains silent.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 3. As the Assembly grows to include varied levels of monks, men and women, with their incalculable offerings, we find Shakyamunibuddha nonplussed and unaccepted of the huge gifts being offered.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 2. We begin the story of the varied lessons and guidance given by Shakyamunibuddha in the last few months of his life on Earth.
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MahaPariNirvana Part 1. In this first video of the series on the Pari Nirvana Sutra collection I begin with an introduction as Forward to the books to set a framework of understanding of the vernacular and insights as to the “Skillful Means” used to convey meaning to the varied capacities of those present at the time.
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Buddhism Reference – Triple World. The three aspects of our Samsaric experience is “Desire, Form, and Formlessness”. Knowing and understanding the way these “worlds” form and exist in our minds is key to dissolving our cravings and clinging to Samsara.
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Buddhism Reference – Tripitaka. (the Three baskets) The early transcriptions of Shakyamuni-buddha’s teachings in Pali and later Chinese (Agama sutras) represent the two versions of translations of the earliest teachings of Buddhism.
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Preview of the MahaPariNirvana Sutra. The upcoming Book annotated and edited by Sylvain Chamberlain for modern Nichiren Lotus Sutra Buddhist practitioners. Soon to begin the YouTube series for the final edit of the books for later release to the bookstore in print and in e-book.
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Buddhism Reference – Trichiliocosm. An early term referring to 3000 realms of the sentient mind inhabited by the Buddha-nature or Tathagata-field.
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Buddhism Reference – Treasure Tower. A critical analogy of the teaching of the Lotus Sutra is the concept, the visualization of the Treasure Tower and the ceremony, the thought exercise of the Treasure Tower.
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Buddhism Reference – Transmigration. Buddhism is about the mind. Transmigration is the momentum from moment-to-moment through the 3000 Realms of influence, Our constant emergence from the Engine of Life, Karma.
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Buddhism Reference – Topknot. The metaphor of the Buddha’s Topknot is to indicate the enlightened mind’s power and wisdom to propagation and inspire aspirations to Buddhahood by propagating the Dharma.
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Buddhism Reference – Tongue. The metaphor of the Buddha’s Tongue is to indicate the propagation and widespread reverberations of propagating the Dharma.
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Buddhism Reference – Timelessness. The training to experience momentum of the Engine of Life as non-local or non-linear happening.
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 8. The Great Contemplation and Insight of Tien-Tai Buddhism authored by Zhiyi or Chi-hi, and further extended and developed for our modern practice by Nichiren.
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Objectification. We live in the mind of Samsara that objectifies everything, and we want to move our mind to the transparency of Appreciation, of the momentum, of the experience.
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 7. The Five Periods and the Eight Teachings. We can gain a depth of understanding of Nichiren's insights and doctrinal basis.
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 6. Buddhahood; what is it, how do we experience it. I introduce the word Transparency, to visualize the Engine of Life.
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 5. The One Vehicle, the One Buddha Vehicle, the Lotus Sutra as defined in the Immeasurable Meanings Prologue Sutra. These fundamentals of Zhiyi figure prominently in Nichiren.
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 4. Three realities and the Middle Way. From Nagarjuna to Zhiyi, the integration of the sentient mind.
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Mindset of Chanting. A comprehensive and profound way to consider the awakening of Buddha mind as we chant.
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 3. This episode traces texts and history of shifts as well as revivals of TienTai thought to the Modern Era.
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 2. The lineage of teachings are discussed in this series on the importance of Zhiyi and the Tien-Tai school of Lotus Sutra practice for our doctrines of Nichiren in this modern era.
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Buddhism Reference – Tien-Tai – Part 1. We begin a short series on the importance of Zhiyi and the Tien-Tai school of Lotus Sutra practice for our doctrines of Nichiren in this modern era.
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Buddhism Reference – The Thus Come One. Our invocation of the Engine of Life. By chanting the Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra, we manifest directly the three bodies of Buddha.
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Buddhism Reference – The Three Vehicles. Three vehicles refers to Shakyamunibuddha’s teachings evolving to the ability and capacity of his audience over his teaching life. There is in reality, only One Great Teaching.
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Buddhism Reference – The Three Realms (Spheres) of Existence. A discussion illuminating the perceptions and identifications of the mind from energy into physicality and Samsara delusions of separateness.
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Buddhism Reference – The Three Periods of the Dharma. A discussion illuminating the stages of enlightenment teachings leading to the Later Age and the doctrines of Nichiren.
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Buddhism Reference – The Three Clarities. Early teachings for Arhats become the Mahayana of Three Illuminations of Bodhisattvas and Buddhas.
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Buddhism Reference – Third Eye. The GoHonzon. The objective of our practice to open and experience our Buddha potential.
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Buddhism Reference – Teacher. Is the great power of our sentient mind to take our self awareness of the experience of the engine of life to clearly understand the manifestations and energies that instantiate in moment to moment flow of momentum.
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Buddhism Reference – Tathagata. Simply put is the Potential inherent in the entire engine of the Cosmos. Tathagata is the inherent potential for the instantiation of Buddha consciousness.
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Buddhism Reference – Sravaka. A student or monk and a “Hearer of the Buddha’s meaning”.
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Buddhism Reference – Single Minded Buddha. Happiness in this Life is a Gosho written to remind us that our life condition is always under our control via our Buddha consciousness. We chant to awaken and maintain our attitude and intent with regard to our maximal life potential at all times.
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Buddhism Reference – Sovereign. To “single-mindedly” contemplate Buddha is your personal Sovereign act to Love your personal experience of the Engine of Life.
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Buddhism Reference – Singlemindedly Contemplate Buddha. To “single-mindedly” contemplate Buddha is to chant the Daimoku. Na Mu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo. Contemplate, Awaken, Open the eye of, Buddha.
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Buddhism Reference – Seven Jewels. From earliest teachings and throughout, and in the culminating teachings of the Lotus, Shakyamunibuddha offered traits and human skills to be purified into powers that are analogs to the characters of the Daimoku.
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What is Consciousness?
Quantum Life Field of Potential. Moment-to-moment, this field instantiates 3000 realms of potential experience for our minds to sort and choose to adopt.
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Buddhism Reference – Secret. A concept, teaching, or insight that requires foundational teachings and understandings in order to fully grasp or appreciate.”
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Buddhism Reference – Save or Rescue. An ancient term of religious rituals of the body and ego. A term not useful to Buddhist practice. To “quote” from ShakyamuniBuddha, “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
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Buddhism Reference – Sarira. An ancient term of religious rituals of the body after death and cremation. A term not useful to Buddhist practice.
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Buddhism Reference – Samadhi. An ancient term used to describe and ascribe various aspects and qualities of meditative practices to focus the mind.
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Buddhism Reference – SadDharmaPundarikaSutra. The Sanskrit title of the Doctrine of the Dharma of the Wonderful Lotus Blossom, in Japanese the, Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo.
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Buddhism Reference – Refuge or Taking Refuge. Buddhism is about the mind. So “refuge” in Buddhist teaching is about maintaining a mind-state of Buddha, compassion, and support for the path to enlightenment. This is a refuge in mind and out thoughts of attitude and intent expressed as actions toward Buddha.
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Buddhism Reference – Pure Land. A predominantly East Asian Buddhist sectarian division of schools maintaining the ancient traditions of reincarnations in misinterpretations of Buddhist teachings.
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Buddhism Reference – Pratyekabuddha. Self-realized in the realm of Realization but not yet capable of instructing others on the Buddha way.
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Buddhism Reference – Prakrit. A set of Indio-Aryan languages based on Sanskrit but varied for particular castes and subcultures of the Indian geography, spoken by ShakyamuniBuddha as the oral transmission of his teachings.
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Buddhism Reference – Prajnaparamita. One of the vows we take to perfect our Buddha knowledge in the pursuit of Buddha wisdom. This is the clarity of full understanding of all phenomena as it happens.
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Buddhism Reference – Prajna. Our mind development through Buddha awareness of the true aspect of experience and all phenomena.
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Buddhist – 6 (six) Penetrations. The purification of the Skandhas and the mind of the first 6 consciousnesses as qualities or “Marks” of the Buddha.
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Buddhism Reference – Parinirvana. Nirvana of extinction rather than the counterfeit or semblance nirvana as a temporary motivator for early students.
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Buddhist – Cycle of Life. The universal cosmology of potential to quiescence.
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Buddhism Reference – Parent. The Parenting, Teacher-ing, Sovereign-ing of Buddhism is the intimacy of all life, of all sentient beings in search of their own path to Buddha.
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Buddhism Reference – 10 Mahayana Paramita. Compassion and its many forms explored as skills for the Bodhisattva Path.
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3 Kinds of Practice. Nichiren gives us advice for steadfastness in our practice in the Gosho, “Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra”.
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Buddhism Reference – Paramita. The Bodhisattva building of self-behavioral skills for reason, honesty, and truth for one’s mind of awareness and as it applies to the understanding of others.
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Buddhism Reference – Outflows. Expelling energies using the Samsaric mind of cravings and clinging, thwarting those energies from manifesting Buddha.
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Buddhism Reference – Omniscience. A term used by translators to try to capture the illumination of the mind of Buddhahood.
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Buddhism Reference – Non-Origination. An early teaching term used often to equate ideas of emptiness, the void, self/not-self to “Destiny” or karma as immutable. Nichiren and the Lotus directly confront and destroy this idea with the invocation of the Engine of Life to alter, to influence all karma by our actions.
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Buddhism Reference – Eternal. All phenomena are momentum of energy. Moment-to-moment instantiations of potential energies arising, abiding, and dissolving from and back to quiescence.
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Buddhism Reference – Nagarjuna. One of the most important Buddhist scholars and founder of the “Middle Way” and “Emptiness” doctrines of the Madhyamaka School.
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Buddhism Reference – Nagas. An ancient term from Hindu mythologies of a creature relegated to the underworlds by Brahma; these dragons or serpents are used as helpful protectors of living beings in Buddhism.
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Buddhism Reference – Monkey Mind. Our Samsaric Mind as it relentlessly jumps from one distraction to the next for self pleasure and emotional rewards or fears.
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Buddhism Reference – Middle Way - part-2. Dependent Origination is a cornerstone of the Middle Way in that it describes in language the incalculable interactions and influences of constant instantiations of potential upon each and every other from moment to moment in our experience of life.
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Buddhism Reference – Middle Way. The Dharma Path between the two extremes of Self indulgence and Self mortification or Eternal self versus Annihilation.
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Buddhism Reference – Miao-lo. Japanese name for Zhanran, the sixth patriarch of the Tien-Tai Chinese sect of Buddhism.
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Buddhism Reference – Merit. Achieving the Bodhisattva Path through our interactions of thought, word, and deed. We build our life condition by our Daimoku and practice to develop our mind, the minds of others, and our dignity and respect.
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Buddhism Reference – Mara. The influences of our imagination and minds of Samsara using craving and clinging as obstacles and distraction from our enlightenment.
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Buddhism Reference – Maitreya. The future Buddha. Also, the future Buddha as you and I accomplish our Bodhisattva Mahasattva practice to inspire others to the Lotus Sutra method of Self-Realization.
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Buddhism Reference – Mahasattva. A Great Person, a great Bodhisattva, a Bodhisattva of great accomplished practice.
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Buddhism Reference – MahaPrajnaParamita. The Perfection of Wisdom Sutras written to promote personal deep insight into the teachings and method of Buddhist thought.
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Buddhism Reference – Madhyamaka. Nagarjuna’s Middle Way of practice and the piercing perception of Sunyata.
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Buddhism Reference – Liberate. To break free of our craving and clinging mind of Samsara to experience the true reality of the Engine of Life.
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Buddhism Reference – Extinction. The third phase of Karma from instantiation to Abiding formations and decay, and ultimately to Dissolution or Extinction.
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Buddhism Reference – Invoke - Invocation. We chant “NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo” to Instantiate our Buddha experience in accord with the universal Law of the Engine of Life to instantiate our maximal potential, moment-to-moment.
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Buddhism Reference – Homage. We chant “NaMu” as homage to “MyoHoRenGeKyo” in accord with the universal Law of the Engine of Life to instantiate our maximal potential, moment-to-moment.
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Buddhism Reference – Hinayana. A term used to define early practices based on early teachings of Shakyamunibuddha, also known as incomplete or lesser vehicles.
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Buddhism Reference – GoHonzon, again. An important distinction to know in our modern understanding of Buddhist scholarship of Nichiren and the Lotus Sutra.
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Buddhism Reference – Gandhari Languages and Texts. An ancient center of Buddhist scholarship important in the transmission of Buddhist scholarship into central and Eastern Asia.
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Buddhism Reference – Gandhara. An ancient center of Buddhist scholarship in what was then North-Eastern India.
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Buddhism Reference – Elongated Ears. The symbolism of this represents the Buddha ability to understand and perceive all “suffering”. This is written in many stories like those of Avalokitesvara, et al
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Buddhism Reference – Eight Deliverance. These eight deliverance are the mental steps to realize and release our minds from Samsara.
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Buddhism Reference – Earthly Desires. The starting block of reasoning leading to Nichiren’s doctrine of “Earthly Desires are Enlightenment” as discussed in his writings and teachings.
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Buddhism Reference – Dhuta. For Lotus Sutra Mahayana practitioners, this directly equates to Nichiren’s teaching of the “Earthly Desires become Enlightenment”, when we take our carnal cravings to our mandala of GoHonzon to invoke our Buddha mind.
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Buddhism Reference – Devadatta. A great story of subduing one’s Ego to discover our full potential as teacher, Bodhisattva, and Buddhahood.
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Buddhism Reference – Dengyo. An important figure in the lineage of Nichiren’s study and Japanese history of Lotus Sutra propagation and scholarship.
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Buddhism Reference – Butsudan. Our personal Altar re[resenting the stupa to protect and house our seven jeweled treasure tower of the true teachings of the ultimate Dharma.
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Buddhism Reference – Awakening. For modern Buddhists in the lineage of Bodhisattva Nichiren, awakening the mind of Buddha, the enlightened and unobstructed mind is the goal and meaning of this term.
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Buddhism Reference – Brahman Conduct. Some translations of the Lotus Sutra continue to use this terminology to discuss the comportment of Bodhisattvas. This term shows up in the very first teachings of Shakyamuni in the Avatamsaka Sutra.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 65 – Meditation on Bodhisattva Universal Virtue. The comportment for any person wanting to take the life path to enlightenment is summarized in this final sutra, epilogue to the Lotus Sutra, One Vehicle Bodhisattva/Buddha teaching.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 64 – Meditation on Bodhisattva Universal Virtue. Our transmigration from Samsaric mind of conjured “reality” to the purified clarity of Buddha-ness.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 63 – Meditation on Bodhisattva Universal Virtue. The process of self-realization is delved into as a reminder and coalescing of all Shakyamuni’s teachings, crystallized in this lotus Sutra method for focused contemplation, release, and awakening.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 62 – Meditation on Bodhisattva Universal Virtue. In this closing sutra, devices reminiscent of the first of Shakyamuni’s teaching of awakening, the Avatamsaka Sutra, emerge as short mental exercise to integrate the personifications of Buddhist characters into our mental cognition and experience of enlightenment.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 61 – Meditation on Bodhisattva Universal Virtue. Epilogue, a recap, a point by point answer in consistent practice of the One Vehicle meditation to awaken the Buddha Eye.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 60 – Encouragement of Bodhisattva Universal Worthy. A closing exhortation from ShakyamuniBuddha, on the way to live this Saha lifetime as a compassionate being, seeing all others as potential Buddha, and staying vigilant in our own practice as exemplars.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 59 – Deeds of King Resplendent. Shakyamuni tells a tale of timelessness to recount the filial relationships of leaving the household to pursue a life dedicated to learning and propagation. And as is the form, the story reflects upon the history of comportment and single-mindedness of the present Bodhisattvas.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 58 – Dharani. The invocation of words or phrases uttered by the Tathagata for our immediate attainment and efficacy of enlightenment offers clarity, protections, and anuttarasamyaksambodhi.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 57 – Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. A story of our universal embodiment of compassionate inter-relations with others to guide, and lead all living beings to Buddhahood.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 56 – Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara. Our malleable nature to be excellent listeners to any walk of life in order to address people as they are to share the priori Law of NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 55 – Bodhisattva Wonder Sound. Our motivations to propagate NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo are inherent in our Buddha nature manifest of the Tathagata, the Engine of Life.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 54 – The History of Bodhisattva Medicine King. In closing this chapter, Shakyamunibuddha makes it clear that Man or Woman, the merits, the practice, the attainment of annutarasamyaksambodhi are guaranteed and the equal.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 53 – The History of Bodhisattva Medicine King. It is our most stubborn Samsaric attachment, the nexus of our identifying possessions, our physical body, that holds us back from complete and perfect enlightenment.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 52 – The Final Entrustment. Our Final Vow in the ceremony in the air or sky accepted by Buddha.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 51 – The Transcendent power of the Tathagata. Our infinite connection to experience the timeless “Engine of Life” that is the expression of the entire cosmos. This Doctrine of Awakening.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 50 – Bodhisattva Never Despising. Inspire others to aspire to Buddhahood. Being mindful of our attitude and intent we can lead others to do the same.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 49 – Bodhisattva Never Despising. Attitude and Intent. Buddhism is about the mind, and we are all of one mind, Buddha.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 48 – Merits of the Teacher of the Law. Closing with merits of the body, we learn the transformation of our very Saha World identity to Buddha-ness.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 47 – Merits of the Teacher of the Law. Coursing in the Saha World, the Bodhisattva leading and sharing and teaching others can expect the purification of the sense organs via their consciousnesses.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 46 – Merits of Joyful Acceptance. Remember the joy of your first realization that the Daimoku provided. Repeat it and let it drive your resolve, and as you radiate this life condition, the 50th person to encounter and realize this teaching will experience annutarasamyaksambodhi.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 45 – Merits of Joyful Acceptance. Simply put; the merits of Joyful acceptance of the a priori truth of innate Buddha is the experience of Tathagata while living in this Saha world.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 44 – Numeration of the Merits. All of the practices, behaviors, studies, teaching of others, chanting and rituals of Lotus Sutra Buddhism do not amount to a single moment of fusion with our Buddha-mind. Open your Buddha Eye, that is your single goal.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 43 – Numeration of the Merits. An expectation of perfect and complete enlightenment in mere moments of acceptance and understanding of Myo-Ho, Ren-Ge, Kyo.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 42 – Revelation of the Timeless Life of the Tathagata. Just do it. Reveal your connection, your inherent enlightened mind of full awareness and compassion.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 41 – Revelation of the Timeless Life of the Tathagata. Buddha reveals that “Buddha” is simply our awakening of innate Tathagata. Tathagata is the Engine of the Cosmos, of Life, of all phenomena.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 40 – Bodhisattvas Spring Up from Beneath the Earth. Maitreya finally asks the ultimate question. And this brings Shakyamuni to the centrally foundational point of the Dharma as developed by Nichiren throughout his doctrine.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 39 – Bodhisattvas Spring Up from Beneath the Earth. Tathagata is the “Engine of Life”. Manifest in the Saha World as Buddhas, we are all the Tathagata “product” of the process of Life. To open our Buddha Eye is our one solitary goal in practice to experience the Tathagata.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 38 – Comportment and Peaceful Practices. Make the Buddha Eye, your default. Your singular awareness. Your single minded experience.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 37 – Comportment and Peaceful Practices. Make new friends. Let them observe your correct practice that they may emulate you. To behave with dignity and respect for the Lotus Dharma teaching that you Always represent.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 36 – Comportment and Peaceful Practices. To behave with dignity and respect for the Lotus Dharma teaching that you Always represent.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 35 – Exhortation to Maintain Conviction and Confidence. Be true to the Teachings bequeathed us by Shakyamuni. This commitment will keep us protected from all detractors and distractions.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 34 – Devadatta. How “challenging” friends can actually be “good” friends; How women are equal in Buddha potential; and how invocation of the “Law” is manifestation of Buddha in the resolved mind.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 33 – Apparition of the Jeweled Stupa. This is the ceremony that Nichiren captures in the mandala of the bequeathing of the teaching of the Law.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 32 – Apparition of the Jeweled Stupa. Shakyamunibuddha begins the ceremony in the sky for the bequeathing of the Lotus Dharma Law.
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Chanting – How To – What did Nichiren mean when he wrote on “Earthly Desires”?
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 31 – Teachers of the Right Dharma Law. Shakyamunibuddha makes it absolutely clear that this teaching is for Bodhisattvas to attain the Buddha Way.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 30 – Teachers of the Right Dharma Law. The life condition of those who teach, those who honor those who teach, and those learning to teach, are expressed as the Tathagata of the entire universe.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 29 – Teachers of the Right Dharma Law. How to become a Bodhisattva Mahasattva, this Lotus teaching is a manual of Bodhisattva behavior, practice, and achievement.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 28 – Predictions for the Arhats. Ultimately for the entire assembly, Shakyamuni states the ever present potential in all sentient minds to attain enlightenment, the realization of Tathagata, to course (live) as Bodhisattvas with Buddha mind.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 27 – Predictions for the Disciples. At the close of this chapter, some arhats return to the Buddha to admit their faults and to redouble their efforts for the Supreme Way.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 26 – Predictions for the Disciples. Our sentient capacity for self-teaching and the teaching of others with compassion for their awakening is innate to our Bodhisattva natures in this Saha World.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 25 – Parable of the Conjured City. This parable obviates the expedient means of offering a respite for those monks who would otherwise have simply quit due to their weariness and doubts, rather than to persevere to the ultimate goal of their practice.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 24 – Parable of the Conjured City. Shakyamunibuddha tells an auto-biographical story before he introduces the parable.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 23 – Prediction for 500 Monks. Shakyamunibuddha confers the prediction of Buddhahood in this physical human body state for the 500 senior monks.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 22 – The Parable of the Herbs. Shakyamuni makes clear that his teachings have always been consistent in the One goal, however received variously by those of varied capacity.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 21 – Resolve and Discernment. As this chapter comes to a close we once again are reminded that our focus must be on awakening Buddha without distraction.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 19 – Resolve and Discernment. Maha-Kashyapa reiterates the parable in verse to show contrition by these senior Sravakas on their stubborn attachment to their undeserving of the highest goal of Buddha’s teachings.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 19 – Resolve and Discernment. Introducing a parable, Subhuti and the other senior monks, explain their error as they also profess their joy at this supreme Law they are now hearing.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 18 – A Parable. In closing, Shakyamuni describes the people whose behavior and self awareness is desirable to teach this Lotus Sutra method for immediate enlightenment.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 17 – A Parable. Teaching and sharing this MyoHoRenGeKyo with others always maintaining Dignity and Respect, for the teaching, Buddha, your practice, and students.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 15 – A Parable. This parable exactly mirrors the lesson just discussed and to continue in the Lotus teaching.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 15 – A Parable. This 3rd chapter begins with the joyful acceptance of Sariputra of this universal Dharma teaching, and Shakyamuni pointing out the timeless abiding of this One Vehicle Buddha Law.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 14 – The Hoben chapter. The close of this chapter repeats the exhortation to Sariputra of the One and only Buddha vehicle as well as an anecdote of Shakyamuni’s decision to teach in stages appropriate to the capacity of those to whom he would teach.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 13 – The Hoben chapter. Sariputra, is each our open mind of learning, and here we learn of the one great vehicle of attitude and intent throughout all our actions and relations in the Saha World.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 12 – The Hoben chapter. Sariputra, there is only the One Buddha Vehicle, there are NOT two vehicles and much less three.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 11 – The Hoben chapter. The first confrontation of the Lotus Teaching. The opening salvo for the attention of the assembly to hear with earnest the direct and profound Law of Enlightenment.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 10 – We end the Introductory chapter with the ovation to this ultimate teaching and the understanding of timelessness.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 9 – Shakyamuni is in samadhi, while Manjushri and Maitreya explain to the assembly that the momentary glimpse the Buddha has shared for them is only a taste of what is about to be taught.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 8 – We begin the Lotus Sutra proper with this first chapter, “Introduction”.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 7 – In closing the Innumerable Meanings Sutra we are fully prepared to dive into the revolution that is the Lotus Dharma Sutra.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 6 – The Merit-Powers we attain as we invoke Buddha into our mind in this practice include ALL previous, current and future teachings and practices at once, of Buddha.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 5 – Chapter Three introduces us to the opportunity, merit, and mental benefits of the practice of this sutra for ourselves and its propagation.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 4 – The Teachings of chapter two of Innumerable Meanings offers us a concise preview of the teachings to come in the Lotus Sutra.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 3 – The summation of chapter one is the setup for the remainder and the exposition of the entire Sutra of the Wonderful Dharma Flower.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 2 – As the prologue to the 28 chapters of the Lotus, this “Innumerable Meanings” Sutra identifies succinctly, the themes and concepts of the Lotus Teaching.
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TLK Lotus Sutra - part 1 – In my annotated and transliteration of the Threefold Lotus Sutra I have written many annotations and language corrections to clarify meaning and integrate Nichiren’s scholarship and Doctrine for our modern practice, confidence, and insights.
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Buddhism Reference Volume 2 – Demons. Those Samsaric influences that plunge us (via our tendencies – karma) into realms or worlds of mental experience that inhibit our volition to enlightenment.
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Buddhism Reference Volume 2 – Citta. An ancient term used in early Buddhist scholarship in the breakdown of the minutia tracing the origins of thought and the minds inner workings.
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Buddhism Reference Volume 2 – Avatamsaka. Siddhartha Gautama’s first sermon as Shakyamunibuddha. In Japanese this sutra is known by the name Kegon Sutra, and in China often named the Flower Garland Sutra foundational to the sect of the same name.
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Forward to 3fold Lotus part 2 – In my annotated and transliteration of the Threefold Lotus Sutra I have written a Forward with several sections to create a framework and context of modern practice with Bodhisattva Nichiren’s doctrines for a clear reading of this ultimate of Shakyamunibuddha’s teaching..
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Forward to 3fold Lotus part 1 – In my annotated and transliteration of the Threefold Lotus Sutra I have written a Forward with several sections to create a framework and context of modern practice with Bodhisattva Nichiren’s doctrines for a clear reading of this ultimate of Shakyamunibuddha’s teaching..
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Buddhism Reference Volume 2 – Anuttarasamyaksambodhi. Perfect and complete enlightenment. The experience of Buddha, as in Buddhahood or Buddhaness.
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Buddhism Reference Volume 2 – Annihilation. As Buddhism is all about the “mind”, this is a mental attachment or concept of the relation we have to the physical world to “identify” as a unique and perpetual condition of “self”.
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Buddhism Reference Volume 2 – Anatman. An Ancient word with Hindu roots used throughout Buddhism. In Mahayana Buddhism, this word is used to teach the critical mental detachment from permanence of physical things, emotions, cravings, and clinging, as “Non-Self”, or “No-self”, etc.
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Buddhism Reference Volume 2 – Ananda. Shakyamunibuddha’s attendant and personal secretary known for his perfect memory and the establishment of the Nun’s sangha.
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Buddhism Reference Volume 2 – Amitabha. Also known as Amida or the Buddha of Infinite Light, is one of Shakyamunibuddha’s personages to demonstrate the mental paradigm shift of Samsara to Pure perception of the “land” or landscape of our detached physical realms.
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Hurvitz – Lotus Sutra – part 56. Encouragement of Bodhisattva Universally Worthy. As we close out this last chapter of the Lotus Sutra we are reminded that this Bodhisattva personage is our innate ability to practice and raise our Buddha mind in this human lifetime.
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Hurvitz – Lotus Sutra – part 55. Encouragement of Bodhisattva Universally Worthy. Resolve, attitude and intent, fortifying these three are your assurance of success in the Bodhisattva path to Buddhahood.
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Hurvitz – Lotus Sutra – part 54. Former Affairs of King Fine Adornment. Another story to describe the always extant presence of the Engine of Life or “Buddha” accessible to all living beings. The awareness of which is our awakening of it, Buddhahood as experience in our sentient mind.
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Hurvitz – Lotus Sutra – part 53. Former Affairs of King Fine Adornment. Filial responsibility and the advantage of the fortune child.
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Hurvitz – Lotus Sutra – part 52. Dharani. Those of us who are not ready to promulgate the teachings, but practice assiduously, can, by assisting those who can, receive great reward and prepare yourselves as well.
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Hurvitz – Lotus Sutra – part 51. Bodhisattva Observer of the Sounds of the World. The development of constant compassion is an immense contributor to our Bodhisattva path as teachers on the Buddha Way to enlightenment.
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Hurvitz – Lotus Sutra – part 50. Bodhisattva Fine Sound. The sound of chanting the Daimoku and the teaching of the Dharma taking the form of the listener; these are further lessons on the Bodhisattva path.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 49. History of Bodhisattva Medicine King. Determination, conviction, confidence, attitude and intent; these are essential means for overcoming Samsara in order to enter the stream of Buddha consciousness.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 48. History of Bodhisattva Medicine King. Once again the lesson that our practice of Buddhism is designed to Cease our Cravings and Clinging of the physical worlds in order to fully engage our mind in the moment-to-moment “BEING” of life.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 45. Entrustment. This is our moment! We are given the mission to propagate this teaching of MyoHoRenGeKyo.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 45. Supernatural Powers of the Thus Come One. Once we tap into our innate Buddha experience, we can experience the all knowing cosmos of the Engine of Life and all phenomena.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 45. Bodhisattva Never Disparaging. Attitude and Intent. Never “take” offense. Always hear the intent of others as their expression of pain. Then, with compassion, see them as future Buddha.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 44. The Merits of the Dharma Preacher. This chapter closes with the promise of teaching abilities attained through practice and teaching that equal all Buddhas throughout time.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 43. The Merits of the Dharma Preacher. Having completed the paradigm shift of previous teachings, this chapter raises the aspiration of the multitude to attain Buddhahood in this life.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 42. The Merits of Appropriate Joy. Acceptance and understanding of the MyoHoRenGeKyo. Understanding and teaching, sharing, this truth leads to full and complete expression and experience of your life.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 41. Discrimination of Merits. Wow. To live our lives completely free of obstruction; what would that be like?
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 40. Life Span of the Thus-Come-One. So, what do we do with this new revelation? This is the discussion at hand in chapter 17.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 39. Life Span of the Thus-Come-One. Shakyamuni declares that he is but an impermanent vessel for the dharma to teach ordinary beings that it exists throughout all time without ceasing.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 38. Life Span of the Thus-Come-One. It is a come-to-reason meeting! Time to stop obsessing about your Samsaric “self” and discover your timeless Buddha “self”.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 37. Welling up Out of the Earth. Manjushri asks the “give-away” question that is the last tendril of attachment to the physical body of identity, which, it is now time to destroy...
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 36. Welling up Out of the Earth. The appearance of the Bodhisattvas of the future of Buddhism, the Lotus Bodhisattvas.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 35. Comfortable Conduct. Teaching this MyoHoRenGeKyo with dignity for it and those who are learning it, is the most comfortable and edifying way to practice and share its ultimate goal.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 34. Comfortable Conduct. How to course in the physical world as a Bodhisattva of the Lotus Sutra.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 33. Fortitude. With the entire assembly conferred the promise of future Buddhahood, vows of commitment for propagation of this ultimate teaching of the Lotus are made to Shakyamuni and Taho Buddhas.
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Hurvitz–Lotus Sutra–part 32. Devadatta. Shakyamuni gives kudos to Devadatta while reminding him of what he has forgotten and then breaks the Arahant delusion of nirvana, represented by Sariputra, to demonstrate the immediate enlightenment of MyoHoRenGeKyo.
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“Ten Factors”, are recognizable components of all phenomena used by the Samsaric mind to identify, collect, and cling. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Taiji”, is an ancient Chinese term that relates directly to our Buddhist concept of Formations and in modern science with the activity of the quantum fluctuations etc. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Suchness”, the true state of all phenomena, impermanent, empty and constantly changing in the momentum of instantiations. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Skandhas”, our initial state from physical perception to mental self identification.
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“Shoten Zenjin”, all influences, tendencies, and habits from karma and the engine of life that move our distracted and or focused minds.
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“Self-Manifestation”, Our Awakened mind of Buddhahood as our transmigration from Samsara to Enlightenment.
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“Sangha”, a community of like-minded sentient minds.
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“Re-Birth”, the very next moment after this one, and the next, again and again, etc...
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“Quiescence”, a state of rest. From Quiescence through Formations into Form, Decaying and dissolving back into Quiescence. Karma, life, the process we sentient minds can witness.
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“Quantum Fluctuations”, Scientific investigation finally reaches the insights of Shakyamuni. This is science identifying, in Samsaric terms, the process of Formations.
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“Qi”, the Bio-Electric Energy that moves all life.
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“Practice”, self-realization, self-manifesting Buddha; this is the singular goal or objective of our study, resolve, and practice.
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“Potential”, from quiescent energy (Potential) formations collect and amalgamate tendencies and conditions to manifest all phenomena..
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“Personages”, exemplars and characters representing mind-sets or life tendencies and behaviors to make stories more expedient lessons of ideas and insights.
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“Opening of the Eye”, the GoHonzon-mind to experience Buddha. In our practice of emulating the “Ceremony in the Air” we invoke our innate capacity for enlightenment.
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“Noble Eightfold Path”, an early Buddhist teaching of self-observation leading to insights toward the goal of awakening the Buddha nature. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Nine Consciousnesses”, individuates the discriminatory functions of the human sentient mind. It is from these constant processes that we “form” our constructs of the experience of life. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Nidana - part-2”, this early teaching contains the seeds of the “3000 realms in a single thought moment of life” and encompasses our understanding of the “Engine of Life”. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Nidana - part-1”, an early teaching of Shakyamuni to prepare the Samsaric mind’s capacity to conceive of the 3000 realms in a single thought moment of life. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo”, is the Daimoku defined by Nichiren to invoke our innate Buddha. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“NaMu”, is the invocation of our commitment to transcend our Samsaric attachments and clinging mind in order to open our GoHonzon EYE and experience the Buddha. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“MyoHoRenGeKyo”, is the fundamental or “a priori” law of all phenomena. We sing, invoke, chant this ultimate truth in order to instantiate our awareness, our awakening, to experience this truth in each moment of our life. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Monk”, is a dedicated student of the Dharma with an aim toward attainment. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Momentum”, is Karma, is Formations, is the Engine of Life. Momentum establishes the universe since its inception. Our sentience can perceive and interact with this massive flow of time and formations. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Moment-to-Moment”, is our momentum. The kinetic energy of formations into instantiated form that is Karma and its massive collection of constant manifestation from the potential of the myriad amalgams that are you, me, and the entirety of the universe, happening in each moment, influenced by experience and tendencies and conditions from 3000 interpenetrating realms as we move inexorably into the next. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Moment”, 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000005391247th of a second. Now add the Buddhist teaching (thought) that there are 3000 interpenetrating Realms influencing your momentum in each of those units of “time”. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Mind”, the emergent properties of the consciousnesses beginning with the Skandhas and into the nine (9) consciousnesses of sentience ad experience. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Mandala”, Nichiren’s symbolic diagram of the Lotus Sutra universe to use as our passport to GoHonzon-mind to experience Buddha. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Life Condition”, Our personal experience of “Life” is conditioned by an immense amalgam of karma (the 8th consciousness). This is the Samsaric “condition” we live and the “condition” we seek to subdue by instantiating and maintaining our Buddha-mind, our condition of Buddhaness. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Life”, like the song says, “You are everything and everything is You”. Shakyamuni said that we should treat all others as though they are our single child. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Law”, is the a-priori truth, “reality” of the process of all phenomena or the Engine of Life. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Kosen Rufu & World Peace”, a logical extrapolation of the individual practice of self-realization and our Bodhisattva practice of propagation. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Karma”, is our attitude and intent to determine the influence we impose on the formations of every amalgam of energies in our life. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Kalpa”, an unfathomably long period of time. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Kaidan”, a Japanese term describing the place of ordination. Our modern version as Butsudan is our physical location for committed practice and joining in the “Ceremony in the Sky” of the Lotus Sutra to manifest our GoHonzon-mind of Buddhaness. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Identification”, is a term used in Buddhism to capture the mind activity of relating our experience of “self” via the cravings of formations to instantiate or to “be”. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Compassion”, is a term used in Buddhism to express the Bodhisattva motivation to lead others from Dukkha (Samsara) to Dharma (Buddhaness. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Ichinen Sanzen”, is a term used to capture T’ien-T’ai’s teachings of the 3000 Realms in a Single Thought Moment of Life. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Honmon”, is a term used to encompass the second half or chapters 15 – 28 of the Lotus Sutra as the “essential teachings”. Nichiren points to the “Lifespan of the Tathagata” (16th) chapter, as the focus of this “Honmon” section of Shakyamuni’s teaching.. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Hell or Hells”, is a term used to interpret Shakyamuni’s teachings of the forces operating in our Samsaric mind and perceptions etc. Hell, because these mental experiences derail our thoughts of enlightenment. Often these forces are given personages and characteristics in Buddhist teachings. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Heaven”, is a misleading term used to interpret Shakyamuni’s teachings of the forces operating in our mind and perceptions etc. Often these forces are given personages in Buddhist teachings. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Habit Energy”, is the state of tendencies and conditions (karma) at any one moment that simply re-instantiates with little or no influence into the next moment. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Gosho”, is Nichiren’s doctrine via the extant writings of his lifetime of scholarship and teaching of the Lotus Sutra and supporting scholarship. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Gongyo”, is our opportunity to savor our practice. To embrace, read, recite, copy, write, propagate; these are the practice of Lotus Sutra Buddhism. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“GoHonzon”, is our ultimate goal; to open our GoHonzon “eye” to experience in Samsara our innate Buddhaness. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Four Noble Truths”, is an early teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha. For us, Lotus Sutra Buddhists, it is a reference to early teachings and can serve as a primer for more developed understanding of Buddhist practice. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“SHOJU”, is a simple and gentle way to introduce Buddhist thought to the uninitiated while also being quite convincing in familiar language. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Formation”, is a key word for the concept of developing form from tendencies and conditions accumulated and amalgamated through the process of “formation”. Everything we experience in Samsara is a result of this ongoing process. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Five Aggregates”, also known as Skandhas, are the initial formations of consciousnesses in the development of the sense organs for our existence in Samsara. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Equanimity”, our resistance to reaction, to remain composed and objective. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Epistemology”, the way we assemble data and information and customize these into our truths, fears, opinions, and feelings. In short, how we believe what we believe, or know what we know. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Enlightenment”, also called Awakening, is an innate capacity of our sentient mind to experience the world as it truly is, a dance of potentials in constant change and development. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Engine of Life”, the three components of all phenomenal instantiation; Energy, formations, Form (experienced as Karma). E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Energy”, A rest state of potential where/when no time/space or “form” is extant. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Emptiness”, Not a denial of “reality” but a deeper understanding of “reality” as a process of constant change. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Dukkha”, the stress and anxiety in our minds experience of the processes of the physical world. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Death”, simply the end of experience. Without the sentient mind of Samsara, there is no experience of life. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Dharma”, The goal of the teachings is our ultimate experience of Buddha. The fulfillment or fruition of that goal is the Dharma. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Daimoku”, Nichiren specifies the 5 characters (MyoHoRenGeKyo) of the Title of the Lotus Sutra with the invocation Na and Mu making the 7 characters of the full invocation of the resolve and action of manifesting the ultimate Law of Life (Engine of Life). E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Cycle of Birth and Death”, also known as Samsara, comes from ancient origins in Hinduism and the magical thinking of reincarnation. In Buddhism however, this term is used to communicate the idea of momentum in moment-to-moment instantiation of karma. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Consciousness”, Is a multilayered concept in Buddhism. From the early scholarship on the formations of the 5 aggregates (Skandhas) to the full spectrum of the 9 consciousnesses fro perfect and complete enlightenment. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Chanting”, Nichiren instructs the Lotus method as the invocation of our Buddhahood. Using the Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra we actively invoke our Buddha mind. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Cessation”, In our practice this word signifies our effort to cease the formations that arise from Quiescence. In effect, to prevent Karma from instantiation. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Cause/Effect”, Like Yin/Yang, these are alternate sides of the same “thing”. A coin has two side, or actually three, but we know that there is only one coin. Action has by its nature both cause to influence its environment and the effect experienced from that environment. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Buddha - Buddhaness”, Our enlightened mind-state of the perception of the Engine of Life.. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Bodhisattva”, Our dedicated resolve to live in the Samsaric universe while maintaining a Buddha mind of compassion and enlightenment to influence all others and our environment. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Birth”, it take three entities at minimum to instantiate a physical “Being” in the Earthly process of justification leading to “Birth”. Similarly, Buddhism uses the omnipresent influences of previous tendencies and conditions leading into the next moment of existence in the concept of the “Cycle of Birth and Death”. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Attitude and Intent”, both our resolved commitment to open the GoHonzon mind and experience Buddha, and equally or resolve to maintain the Buddha-mind into our daily lives as Bodhisattva. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
“Attachment” is a mind-state often referred to as Samsara. It is a state of identification of our perception of “self” and has little to do with the actual objects of our cravings. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Words of Buddhism span 27 centuries and more whose origins are sometimes cultural and at other times used as containers of meaning for larger contexts to be explored in the language of the region and stories. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
The “Engine of Life” is a term I created as a capsule of several concepts in Buddhist teaching. These concepts of Energy, Formations, Form and Karma are interdependent and have changed and morphed over the lifespan of Shakyamuni’s teaching life. This is my attempt to coalesce these core concepts into the modern practice defined by Bodhisattva Nichiren of Shakyamuni’s intent. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
An Addendum to the GoHonzon discussion, followed by a review of the conditions of Samsara. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Mandala and the word GoHonzon are discussed in this talk. It is critical that we understand the difference in these terms and their usage. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
The first installment of Buddhism Reference is Karma. Still in draft form, I am beginning these readings with my typical additions to spark some input as well as provide audio podcast access to the material. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm How to use this study resource : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIQ89Nc3BU Buddhism resources : threefoldlotus.com www.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoon www.cafepress.com/gohonzon PayPal.me/sifusylvain Patreon.com/TLK instagram.com/sylvainchamberlain/
Update on the current draft of the Buddhism Reference book for correct understanding of key Buddhist terms and concepts. Podcast and videos in the plan for distribution as well as E-books. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
I am developing a new resource for our modern day practice; clear definitions and descriptions of main concepts and terms of Buddhist discussion and insight. Help me include those critical words that have always eluded your understanding or confused you in your study. E-books available on threefoldlotus.com http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Karma is the “formations” engine that is what we experience as “life” in its entirety from atoms to the universe. Karma versus Environment http://threefoldlotus.com/study/Self-Environment-min2.pdf
Nichiren advises us on elements of debate useful for teaching those unaware of the ultimate teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha. Karma versus Environment http://threefoldlotus.com/study/Self-Environment-min2.pdf
Overcoming Karmic repercussions through practice and propagation is our opportunity to lessen repercussions to accumulate. Karma versus Environment http://threefoldlotus.com/study/Self-Environment-min2.pdf
Firm resolve and propagation overcome all karmic repercussions in time. A strong resolve is always the path through karmic impediments Karma versus Environment http://threefoldlotus.com/study/Self-Environment-min2.pdf
Menstruation is a basic and natural process of the human body and should in no way be seen as an obstacle to practice. Karma versus Environment http://threefoldlotus.com/study/Self-Environment-min2.pdf
Our confidence and determination must be singular in its resolve to instantiate Buddhaness in each and every moment through our Lotus practice. Karma versus Environment http://threefoldlotus.com/study/Self-Environment-min2.pdf
Karma, the Engine of Life, Potential through Formations, Instantiating Forms in momentum from one discrete moment into the next; this is the perception of Suchnesses and the Equanimous experience of all phenomena. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
The Three Treasures are the Law (Engine of Life), the Buddha (realization and experience of the Engine of Life), and the Sangha (community of minds sharing and assisting in the development of Buddhaness to experience the Engine of Life). Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Consistent and determined practice are the building blocks of confidence. Every moment of life is an opportunity for awakening. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
The “essential teachings” (Honmon) of the Lotus Sutra are awakenings of the true nature of karma, energy, and our interactions in it, with it, influencing and influenced in every single thought moment. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
The capacity for Buddhahood in women is no different than it is for men. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Presence at the Butsudan is a short reminder of a mental preparation just before our Daimoku and Gongyo in the presence of the Treasure Tower. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
What are Buddhists “Awakening” anyway? The currents and workings of the subconscious, the unconscious, the lizard brain and their constant control and influence on our conscious actions; awakened in order to take back the momentum of our experience and the worlds we live in. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm How to use this study resource : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suIQ89Nc3BU Buddhism resources : threefoldlotus.com www.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoon www.cafepress.com/gohonzon PayPal.me/sifusylvain Patreon.com/TLK instagram.com/sylvainchamberlain/
We tend to perceive the world as solid and static, when in fact, all that we experience is a construct and collection within our minds. That is to say that our specific ideas and thoughts about the physical world are the “reality” in which we perceive, in our mind of illusions and obsessions, but not the actual reality that is instantiating moment-to-moment. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
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The moment-to-moment instantiations of the engine of life, Karma, provide for the sentient experience of life to move from various ‘hells’ to Buddhahood in an instant. The ‘potential’ of Buddha is in every moment to be instantiated. This is self-manifestation of Buddhaness. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
All 69,384 characters of the Lotus Sutra represent the entire teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha. All these teachings are within the single characters of Myo and Kyo, and expressed through Ho, Ren and Ge. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Over 26 centuries and myriad cultures, countries, and regions, the teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha’s lifetime have been variously learned and taken as cultural traditions of each separate group of people in their own time and capacity to record and to practice. Ultimately however, there is only One Buddhism in the midst of these many Traditions. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Opening the door of GoHonzon mind to experience Buddhahood. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Confidence, determined to live in Buddha mind to your last moments, this is the way to practice the Law of life. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Karma, the engine of life, invoked with our mind and voice NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo, is our awakening to the reality of all phenomena. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Your every action in thought, word, or deed, is an immediate impact on your karma, which is you AND your environment. To live and act with this truth in mind is the Bodhisattva way. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Make your Butsudan (altar) room the “Place of the Cluster of Rewards” by dedicating yourself to propagation. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Resolve all doubts. This is the purpose of our Sangha. Please ask questions in comments or tlksylvain@gmail.com.
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Remain Steadfast in your confidence and intent as you practice. This is the essential component of Nichiren Doctrine.
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Our “identity” is an estimate of our survival needs in Samsara.
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Be inspired in every moment to experience fully your amazing life and the life all around you. When you lax your resolve, you immediately begin to stress and anxiety fills your mind.
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With Single Minded determination to experience Buddha, this is the only thought to focus on Mandala of GoHonzon. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
Nichiren encourages us to strengthen our resolve with practice and study and to teach others to the best of our ability.
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We are, like Nichiren, Bodhisattvas of the Earth, being votaries of the MyoHoRenGeKyo. Nichiren on Karma http://threefoldlotus.com/home/ebooks.htm
The “True Aspect of All Phenomena” is; 3000 Realms, the Ten Worlds, 10 factors, Emptiness, all words to describe the Engine of Life, MyoHoRenGeKyo.
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3000 Realms, the Ten Worlds, 10 factors, Emptiness, all words to describe the Engine of Life, MyoHoRenGeKyo.
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Be steadfast in your resolve. Be the example, be the demonstration of tenacious practice and determination.
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The INFLUENCES we permit into our consciousness of self and environment is the affectation and cause/effect we impose on our Karmic momentum of our experience of life. This is how we “allow” our lives to be directed by our mind instead of training our mind of wisdom/Buddha to direct our lives.
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The many manifestations of obstacles in Samsara from traditions to delusions are all of our own making to inhibit our resolve of Buddhahood.
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What is “Emptiness” in Buddhism, and how does it interact with “Karma”? This is an essential insight into the workings of our Samsaric mind versus our enlightened mind of truth.
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The history of Shakyamuni’s teachings is filled of repeated themes and fables for understanding the power and vicissitudes of the mind and the resulting experiences of life through the ignorance of our actions.
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How can we understand our own karma in respect to our relationships with others?.
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The “appearance” (invocation of Mandala) of the “Treasure Tower” (GoHonzon/MyoHoRenGeKyo) is the Experience of the “Engine of Life”.
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Buddhism is ACTIVE not Passive. Train your mind to drive your life, rather than let your life control your mind.
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How does Karma express itself and how can we affect or influence that expression? This is the task, goal, and method of the Lotus Method.
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What is Karma? Karma is Momentum. Energy plus Action equals Momentum equals Karma. The Engine of Life.
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YOU are the Parent, the Teacher, and the Sovereign of your Gohonzon mind and your experience of Buddha.
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YOU are the Parent, the Teacher, and the Sovereign of your Gohonzon mind and your experience of Buddha.
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The scroll of Nichiren’s description of Shakyamuni’s Lotus method for self-enlightenment is the “Great Mandala”. This Mandala provides the basis and focal point for our Samsaric mind to dislodge our minds from Samsaric delusions in order to experience our clear mind of Gohonzon; to be immersed in the Buddha truth of all phenomena.
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The Lotus Sutra is the ultimate teaching, the ultimate method, the sharing of Shakyamuni’s own path to realize the ultimate truth.
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Invoke your awareness of the “Engine of Life”.
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When we chant the Daimoku, we invoke the innate Buddhaness already extant in within and encompassing our sentient mind. See this video on the 9 Consciousnesses, “Wuji to you and me…” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1fim7Yuda8
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The Daimoku invokes our innate Buddha experience of the total potential of your life.
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Life is never static, it is in momentum that all things are experienced.
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Every thought that occurs is action with energy forming karma.
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You ARE the Treasure Tower.
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Single-mindedly invoke Buddha. This is your only goal, your aspiration, your instantiation to live your momentum with clarity and purpose for the enlightenment of sentient minds.
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Shakubuku? Shoju? Both are correct and necessary when the situation calls for them. Always select based on the Law of Life, as though you are responsible for guiding your only child. Always begin with Daimoku.
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To see all things, people, and situations in our world as opportunity for enlightenment requires tremendous effort and resolve. Our practice fortifies us to rise to the challenge.
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Our experience of life is totally within our power to clear of hindrances. Our past actions create our very experience. Therefore, our current actions can create our full spectrum of opportunities. This realization IS GoHonzon.
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“If you want to understand the causes that existed in the past, look at the results as they are manifested in the present. And if you want to understand what results that will be manifested in the future, look at the causes that exist in the present.”
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It is a simple idea, to shift one’s perceptive experience of life to constant opportunity, rather than the anxiety of previous perils. However, this requires dedicated practice and effort in order to stave the constant deluge of distractions in our Samsaric conditions.
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Seek Buddha through the invocation of the law. Do not be led by personalities or Samsaric ideals. Buddha is an experience unique to your efforts to instantiate in your mind.
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Your awakening to Buddhaness is a Universal truth. Please understand that your personal GoHonzon mind awareness of “Buddha” is an experience beyond ALL borders of thought you have experienced as a Samsaric identity or “self”.
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Attitude and Intent. Experience the Buddha mind in yourself as well as all those around you to understand attitude and intent.
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Dedicate your efforts in the “Law” of the instantiation of Buddha, and do not be intoxicated or dedicate your practice by or for a person. No one can hand you Buddhaness. Only you can awaken your GoHonzon mind to experience Buddha.
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Resolve, confidence, attitude, intent, NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo, these are the essentials for self-enlightenment. To open the Buddha-eye, the GoHonzon mind of awareness of Buddha-ness, all suchnesses, the full flow of the Engine of Life, is our only goal.
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The “Opening of the Eyes” is Nichiren’s treatise on the nature of “GoHonzon”; the nature of RenGe as the very foundation and realization of our practice to shift our minds from Samsara to Buddha.
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Seek your experience of Buddha. Follow the “Law” not the “person”. Your enlightenment comes through your effort; it can never come through the efforts of others.
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Your mind constructs your reality. Therefore, a cluttered mind mis-perceives all life, while a clear mind can experience the true flow of life and our momentum as we experience it.
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Bad teachers have misled many of us. From this turmoil however, we can redouble our understanding and clarity in our daily efforts to awaken and maintain our Gohonzon-Buddha Mind.
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We will never be in a “better place” than we can experience right now, right here. This IS the better place. The ‘difference’ is only in our mind.
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The toughest lesson is the realization that Buddha is immediately and has always been accessible to experience in our lives; not as something ‘other’ but as our very ‘self’.
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Nichiren describes the Treasure Tower and Life Span chapters as the very “RenGe” of the ‘Opening of the Eyes’ or GoHonzon of our Buddhist practice of awakening.
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Mandala is like a ladder, whereas the view from the top is Gohonzon and the experience is Buddha.
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Our friends and loved ones are the very motivation to redouble our own strength of conviction and resolve in our practice and experience of Buddhahood.
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Gohonzon is the lifting of the eyelid from the Buddha eye, providing the witnessing and experience of the Dharma.
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Build your Confidence and develop your Compassion; this is your emulation of Nichiren and your attitude for complete and perfect enlightenment.
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Life is ongoing. Your experience of life though, is of YOUR making. This is the purpose of awakening.
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The wake of the boat is not your experience of “boating”, and nor is your description of the boat. Chanting is your calling forth of the experience of “Buddha”, for you to be “Buddha-ING”.
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“Buddha” describes the reality of all phenomena since “time without beginning” that can be perceived and experienced by the sentient mind. Our Samsaric realization of that truth is GoHonzon. The reality of that truth with or without sentience is the “Engine of Life”.
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All of Nichiren’s letters, treatises, guidance, are all in essence discussions on the manifestation in the mind of “GoHonzon”. In a few letters Nichiren confirms his bequeathing of a mandala for the focus and single-minded practice of his followers to invoke this GoHonzon mind.
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The entire universe is the “Engine of Life”. Your realization of this is Gohonzon and your experience of this truth is Buddha.
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The “ceremony in the sky” is actually a visualization of the entire cosmos. Our experience of Buddhahood is not simply local to our Samsaric identity, but rather the experience of the entire cosmos in each moment as it ‘moves’ through time, instantiating all potential anew in each and every moment.
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Constantly being aware of our Buddha nature as the natural state of all life, is the task of our daily practice.
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Only the Lotus Sutra explains the true aim of self-realization of one’s Buddha nature, transforming the Samsaric mind to Gohonzon experience of Buddha.
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The evolution of Buddhism in the history of ‘Eastern’ Human thought is revealed within this Nichiren treatise of, “The Opening of the Eyes”. A profound shift from life experienced as a passive creature, to become fully aware of our mind as constant progenitor of the life we experience.
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Nichiren captured the essence of the momentum of his life as the propagator of Shakyamuni’s ultimate method for self-enlightenment in the ultimate mandala. This Mandala, he created and offers to all of us, to enable our universal ability to instantiate, to realize our innate, Gohonzon mind of Buddhaness, the engine of life in each moment-to-moment.
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Dignity is your ‘personal responsibility’ to be and to influence by ‘being’ the very Gohonzon awareness that you seek. Buddhahood is yours to experience and to manifest.
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Chant with the conviction that NOW is the time for your Buddhahood. Demand that your mind is focus-locked on your potential rather than the past. This is GoHonzon.
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Gongyo recitation is training fr the mind of Gohonzon to experience the Samsaric existence as manifest through Buddhahood.
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Training your own mind to become aware of its own processes of thought in order to direct those thoughts with Buddha clarity; this is the practice of chanting and Mandala, to achieve GoHonzon mind of Buddha.
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To use your perception of the Engine of Life as the basis for your life experience rather than your than your day-to-day accumulation of identifications, is itself the GoHonzon mind.
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The manifestation of Buddhahood is our “intent” as achieved through our resolve and actions to invoke it. Mandala focuses our attitude in order to instantiate Gohonzon experience.
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Attitude and Intent. Our confidence and surety of Buddhahood by or own means is paramount to our success.
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Two events coincide to delay my videos with you. My neck surgery and great tornadoes causing destruction throughout the Southern United States. My Internet access has only just been restored, so please be assured of my continued videos resuming soon.
Too all those who have reached out to contact me during this past week of uncertainty, I am deeply grateful.
Our motivations are constantly under question by the vicissitudes of our body and Earthly desires. It is our constant effort to elevate our experience of life in the mind to overcome our distractions. Exercising and building our Buddha-mind, our GoHonzon of enlightenment makes this task easier day by day.
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MyoHo is the priori Law of potential into instantiation. The very process of formation is the process of life or the Engine of Life. Our awakened awareness of this process is Buddhahood (9th consciousness).
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MyoHo is the priori Law of potential into instantiation. The very process of formation is the process of life or the Engine of Life. Our awakened awareness of this process is Buddhahood (9th consciousness).
If you base your current actions (thoughts, words, deeds) on your past experience, you are confining yourself to repeat your patterns and habit energies. To be awake and attentive to your moment to moment experience, of your movement and momentum in this moment and into the next, with constantly refreshing input, unconditioned by past experience, is to live your life to its greatest potential.
A letter of distinctions to use Samsaric motivations in order to invoke our awakening mind. The TOOL to manifest our experience of the ENGINE of LIFE.
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Nichiren defines different aspects of Lotus Sutra practice as either Mandala or GoHonzon. Differentiating the aspect of awakening from the mechanisms of invocation, or the tool from the achievement.
The methodology of Lotus Sutra practice. The teacher of all Buddhas. NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo.
The “Object” in Buddhism is a sentient directive to experience the moment-to-moment energies of Life. The mental capacities of the mind are dissected and explored to understand the obfuscations inherent, as well as the potential totality, of our experience.
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Meditation is a large umbrella termed to mean many things. The use of meditation in Buddhism is to develop our minds to ever deeper insights in pursuit of our goal of self-realization, Buddha.
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Our “inner voices” or monologue is just the tip of the iceberg giving us a glance at the tremendous volume of voices influencing our mind. This iceberg of voices is identified, in the simile by Shakyamuni, as the activity of the “monkey-mind”.
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Arouse commitment to engagement in our Buddha-mind. With each Daimoku or words of the Lotus Sutra, we arouse our engagement with Buddha.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
The “Buddha Eye” is the GoHonzon. The objective of our practice is to “open” this Buddha-Eye of perception, experienced as Bodhisattva, Samsaric beings of influence and experience of Buddha-ness.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
How many changes, choices, influences, and habits inform your every single thought as opinions and future actions “form” in your conscious mind? This is the conceptual teaching of the 3000 realms in a single thought moment of life.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
Attitude and Intent is the way we experience the full spectrum of Life in all “3000 realms” in every moment of our experience of MyoHoRengeKyo.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
To stay the course, to buttress our convictions and resolve; this is the most important aspect of our steadfast practice of NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
The mind is constantly navigating through 3000 realms in each moment of life. With each realm, influences are formed into choices and decisions leading into yet further moments.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
Maintain the dignity of your life as it manifests and to the conditions that enable it. Everything and everyone in our environments exist to support the moment-to-moment energies of our karma. 3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
Nichiren acknowledges Shijo Kingo’s dedication, filial respect, and sincere practices to indicate again the central important aspect of Buddhist practice; the mind of resolve and clear intent.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
The Enlightenment of plants and trees and consecrated images etc.; are enlightened via our sentient mind only. Our awakening to the instantiation of potential in each moment followed immediately by another and another; the engine of “creation”, the engine of “Life”.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
Suffer what there is to suffer and enjoy what there is to enjoy. All the while staying cognoscente, aware of the Engine of Life, chanting NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
T'ien-t'ai (Chi-Che) has a fascinating vernacular (although interpreted in language of the West) for the process of the shifting of mind and mental awakening in contemplation.
So, what is "karma", and "cause" or "effect" and how does all this relate to the 3000 Realms in every single thought moment of life?
Consider a REALM (world) to be the size of a galaxy. Then consider that 3000 galaxies are present and available for your sentient mind's focus in any moment, followed by another and another until a thousand moments raise a thought in your conscious mind. This is the true nature of potential, influence, and karma.
Your actions in though or speech or physical, impact directly upon your next moment and the moments to come, immediately. Your future experience is shaped by what you do right now.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
A snowflake is a fragile thing, and yet, with enough of them, snowflakes can be an avalanche of energy.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
We practice; we train, to keep our Buddha awake. So that as we encounter difficulties in daily life, we recall GoHonzon, our Buddha mind, our calm and objective reality.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
Karma is two things. First, it is energy influenced by action or work. Second it is the actions you take consciously to interact and influence that momentum of karma that is your physical and mental life experience.3000 Realms Ebook available at Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm
To experience life, as it is happening, the flow of energies, within and without, simultaneously. Life, free of constraints. Buddhaness.
The most essential teaching of Shakyamuni, elucidated by T'ien-t'ai, Miao-lo, Dengyo, and concretized by Nichiren as the GoHonzon itself. This series reviews the new book on the subject by Sifu Sylvain Chamberlain.
Daimoku (chanting), Mandala vs GoHonzon, and 3000 Realms in one thought moment of life. These are the big three items in Buddhism that seem to have the most misinformation and confusion. I have created 3 books for print and for Ebooks to end the confusion! threefoldlotus.com and go to Ebooks link.
Focused topics for study of Daimoku, Mandala, Gohonzon, and soon to be published book on the 3000 Realms n a single thought moment of life.
Enter each day with amazement, appreciation, and compassion. Today is another day to observe the vicissitudes of human samsaric attachments. www.threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Our experience of Buddha, Buddhaness, is the “White Horses” of King Rinda. Our Daimoku and study is the “White Swans” of the “White Horses”. www.threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Each of us is like a nation, a planet or sun. Our determination for enlightenment in pour daily life is so powerful as to radiate well beyond the bounds of our bodies and borders. With our awakening, so too does our environment. www.threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Self-manifesting our essential nature, the nature of all phenomena as expressions of potential, our full experience and moment to moment kinetic engine of life. www.threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Attitude and Intent. Nichiren makes the point that it is the deluded and misguided thinking and practice of erroneous ideas that has directly led to the sufferings and demise of the Japanese Nation. www.threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Our single-minded practice of Buddha awakening is directly experienced in our daily life as the support of the Engine of Life providing the full expression of our innate potential. www.threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
To simply invoke your inherent Buddha mind is a matter of your own determination, attitude and intent. Simple, right?www.threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htmwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
This Gohonzon exists nowhere outside ourselves, our minds, our experience of life. The mandala is a tool of focusing the mind away from Samsaric distractions to the mind of the ninth consciousness; the Gohonzon.www.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
The Mandala is our tool of reflection on the teachings of self-realization in the Lotus Sutra. The Gohonzon is our realization (RenGe) of the mental awareness and awakening in moment-to-moment instantiation of the momentum of life.www.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
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Tien-Tai (Chi-Che or Chi-yi) and Dengyo, and others all knew MyoHoRenGeKyo, but taught the concentration and insight to bring one’s capacity for it to fruition. It was not yet the time and the capacity of people to invoke this truth outright. That capacity was entrusted to you, Nichiren, and me in this era.www.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Even today, as in Medieval Japan, there are a great many groups and teachers of enterprising politicians who employ the words of Buddhism to mislead followers for their own gain. Nichiren tells us that once we correct our self-practice of self-realization with conviction in the invocation of NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo, we definitely achieve the RenGe of the “Life Span of the Tathagata” chapter.www.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
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Witness the full expression of your life momentum in constantly instantiation.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
From the potentials of Quiescence through the amalgams of formations and into the physical realms of forms and existence, MyoHoRenGe is both the metaphor of the process and the experience of it.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Your sentient mind is the entity of MyoHoRenGeKyo. Your mind is where this engine of life is all happening for your witnessing and experience. End the distractions of the past and direct your focus on your momentum into the future.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Assist others in their own discovery. No person can give, take, or manipulate another to RenGe. Insight is only achievable by the self. We CAN assist others along the way, through chanting, study and support.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Be enlightened now, in this moment and into the next. Self-realization is self-manifesting Buddha. The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
RenGe; the moment-to-moment BEING of Buddhahood is in each and every moment to be experienced by your mind. Renge is that moment of realization.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
To practice MyoHoRenGeKyo is to BE MyoHoRenGeKyo. NaMu identifies our Buddha manifest and reward bodies with our Buddha Dharma body. The total universe body as it expands into time is our body.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Appreciate the differences in us and in others. Nurture Buddhaness in everyone from family to strangers. We are all manifestations, variations of the same energies of Life.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
“Single” stands for “Myo”, or wonderful and difficult to understand; “mind” for “Ho” or Law; “desiring” for “Ren” or Lotus; “see” for “Ge” or flower; and “Buddha” for “Kyo” or sutra. “Single-mindedly desire to see Buddha”.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Decide. Just make the decision that you are going to pursue a life of enlightened experience for yourself and to influence others to do the same.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Steadfastness and consistency is the key to training the mind for stamina in maintaining the Buddha throughout our daily lives.
Written to an elderly woman, this letter is a testament to the profundity of the Lotus Sutra practice and the universal Buddha-mind, and singular in its efficacy to lead Women and all sentient minds to Buddhahood.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Chthonic women, Apollonian men, together we rise above our animal and base tendencies toward the very fundament, the heart and mind of fulfillment, joy, and blossoming in the event of Life, moment-to-moment.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
You are NOT Buddha. You are Buddhaness. To experience this truth is to alter your perception from container to contained, from ‘self’, ‘identity’ and singular to vantage point, witness and active participant.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
The Daimoku opens the Gohonzon gateway into the universe of Buddha experience.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Each character of the Daimoku is itself an invocation of the entirety of the Dharma, the complete experience of the engine of life.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
With a short visual aid, a demonstration to illustrate the function of Daimoku in our essential practice of Buddhism. The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Conviction. Make your daimoku an event. Do not ‘crave’ Buddhaness, BE it. Your Buddhaness is already happening. The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
You are a Bodhisattva of the Earth. You are the three bodies of Buddha. You and I are the Treasure Tower.
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The character “Myo”, our invocation of it, our understanding of the concepts and teachings contained within it, are resolved in our sincere efforts in daimoku to experience enlightenment.
Our young men have been unguided and left to the devices of brute force and violence to guide their young and boundless energies. It is imperative that we take responsibility for their education in dignity as tolerance, control, and deep appreciation for life and all other beings.
To be fully aware and immersed in the moment-to-moment process of life is to experience the equanimity of Buddhaness.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
Our determined mind of practice, invoking the law of life – NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo - is the foundation of propagation.
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‘Life’ is our experience of instantiation as ‘death’ is our experience of transmigration from moment to moment.The Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
The womb is the Samsaric expression of the engine of “Life” just as is the Universe.
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The recitation of the Hoben and Juryo chaptersThe Profound Meanings of the Daimokuwww.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoonISBN: 978-1-329-94683-5
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The author closes his biography of Nichiren with the last months of the great Bodhisattva's exhortation to us, the bodhisattvas of the Earth
As the Mongol invasion succumbed to a great hurricane, Nichiren would not live to witness the demise of the Hojo government as he observed their avarice and ignorance.
Dignity, compassion and gratitude are the cornerstones of Nichiren's life and resolve in the correct practice and expression of the Lotus Sutra.
Nichiren writes to his Samurai followers words of encouragement and shares his convictions for the future of Japan and the entire world in the truth of the Lotus.
From his bucolic retirement at Mount Minobu, Nichiren views the strife of Mongol invasions, and writes to encourage and support future awakenings.
Fall in Love with your Buddhaness. Fall into Love of Life. Your life, the life all life, the universe of life.
We do not "own" our sons and daughters, nor do we "own" our parents; but we can see and influence their karma and their needs, through Buddhaness.
Every single process occurring in you is also happening throughout the Universe, just as all aspects of the Universe are manifest in you.
A marble is not only impenetrable, but also impossible to escape. A marble made of sugar moving through liquid water, however, can infuse its environment with sweetness.
Do as I do! Realize as I have realized! Exhort yourself in this practice and study for your insights and inspirations as I, Nichiren, have done.
The visualization of the ceremony in the sky that is the Lotus Sutra now takes form in Nichiren’s mind and doctrine.
Nichiren now ponders the focus point for our Samsaric minds to eliminate all distraction from our opening to the mind of Buddhaness.
Nichiren exhorts you and I to emulate his efforts, the path of the Lotus of Truth. To live as he does in conviction and fearless practice of Shakyamuni's ultimate teaching.
Nichiren comes to understand that his "life" is more than Nichiren, but rather an expression of universal "life" as a Truth to be witnessed by all life throughout time.
To practice the “moral life” is to practice and live to the ultimate goal of Buddhaness.
On Sado, Nichiren crystalizes his mission and practice while documenting the full aspect of his expectation for us, his students of Shakyamuni's ultimate method.
The Tatsu-no-kuchi event that resolved Nichiren's mission and cemented his commitment to the propagation of Buddha self-awakening in the Lotus sutra.
The remonstration that would lead to Tatsu-no-kutchi and Nichiren's admonition to Hachiman and the Sun Goddess of Japan.
Nichiren develops his realization of his personal mission to incorporate and understand that he is an embodiment of Shakyamuni's predicted Bodhisattva.
Nichiren's passionate reminder that our life experience is always much more than our expectations. NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo
To live life to the full, as Nichiren, as the Lotus Truth teaches.
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Nichiren was to find the resolution to his exiles and struggles in the Lotus teachings themselves. NaMu MyoHoRenGeKyo.
Nichiren proclaims his absolute dedication to the Lotus teachings and insights by invoking "NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo" aloud.
From the audience to the Treasure Tower the author lays the groundwork of the Lotus for Nichiren's insights and propagation.
The Lotus of Perfect Truth becomes, for Nichiren, the central and most profound fundamental teaching of Buddhism.
Nichiren's development from childhood through education from provincial to the elite at mount Hiei was driven by the singular goal of an essential truth.
Nichiren is born into a culture of deep divisions and theocratic upheavals threatening the very foundations of Buddhism.
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A historical account of the life of Nichiren from childhood to Buddhist reformer in the time of Medieval Japan.
A huge modern find of a multitude of transcribed Buddhist teachings in various languages and collections in a transitional area between Northeastern India into China and the Middle Eastern states.
Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. No need for greed or hunger, a brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people, sharing all the world, living life as one. John Lennon
Buddhahood is not in the words. The Tathagata is experience of the very engine of life.
With our mind, we can experience the totality of “life” as it manifests far beyond the samsaric restrictions we create with our warehouse/database of identifications and possessions.
Tathagatahood, this Dharma, it is experience itself. To 'define' experience is not to experience.
Communicate with others as to their Buddha nature rather than their warehouses of identity.
The Ego and the eternal ‘soul’ are constructions of our Samsaric imaginations to protect you from responsibility. The life you experience is of your own making. Your actions, thoughts, experiences are all up to you to perceive as precious and unique to you alone. By experiencing the life you have in each moment, as the entire process of life in the universe, you open the gate to liberation from suffering, victimhood, and immolation for yourself and all those in your environment.Buddhism resources threefoldlotus.com www.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoon www.cafepress.com/gohonzon PayPal.me/sifusylvain Patreon.com/TLK
Read, write, copy, sing, share, just a small portion of the teachings and your bounty (life experience) will be immeasurable.
Physical, mental, caused of the mind or caused of the body? Buddhism is about the mind.
Physical, mental, caused of the mind or caused of the body? Buddhism is about the mind.
Rhetoric, Vernacular, and Dialects are various and regional. Yet, the meaning always appears.
The thousands year history of the transmission of Shakyamuni’s teachings from verbal singing memorization to recording into various languages and buried and collected, include a vast library organized into time periods of teaching as well as sutra collections. In these collected teachings held as sutra belonging to a time-period of scholarship, many sections or chapters have been added or subtracted in accord with the scholarship of the researcher and student of Buddhism and in the modern era via the academic pursuits of language and cultural practices. In this endeavor, there is the propensity for insertions from cultural norms not belonging to the actual scholarship of the teachings; as well as essentials missed or lost. Buddhism resources threefoldlotus.com www.lulu.com/spotlight/kwoon www.cafepress.com/gohonzon PayPal.me/sifusylvain Patreon.com/TLK
Early Hinayana teachings taught for the intense introspection of secluded monks enumerated several prohibitions in obeisance to the local cultures.
Our experience of Tathagata-hood is unique to each of our karmic streams. Our shared efforts resonate as one vision of the magnificent process of "Life".
Your practice is your enlightenment. In our social structures of constant speed and compression of time, it is more vital than ever to be deliberate in our practice and immersion in the moments of our Buddhahood.
Is 'time' equivalent to experience; or is experience the moment-to-moment witness of time? Time itself is the expression of duality that constitutes Samsara.
Our 'self' or identity is based on our collection of data from our experience of the physical world. Our true 'self' lies in the unidentified witness of the process.
Enlightenment is neither a thing nor a person. Enlightenment is an experience of all life processes as a witness to all.
Dharmas are the processes that our minds can witness. The Nidana identifies the "thing-a-fying" of those processes.
Are you achieving your potential? Or, are you dragging along a past that no longer exists.
Are you achieving your potential? Or, are you dragging along a past that no longer exists.
To be or not to Be, this is an interesting question. Being in the flow of time/space as an energetic witness, unmade of past and future adherences and fears.
This brief chapter is focused solely on the realization of suchness without 'identification'.
Impermanency is a word describing a material world labeled or identified by the sentient mind only.
Samsara, defines our life of materiality. Is happiness, a collection of material, the definition of our personal happiness?
To observe material 'reality' as ephemeral attachment is to experience life in its momentum rather than its footprints.
This is our one "life" experience of the physical manifestations of the field of potential (energy). There is no “other-ness” just as there is no “ego-ness” outside the sentient mind’s constructions.
Words are not 'meaning'. Meaning is not the tip of the finger. Experience the great engine of Life.
Buddhahood is neither phenomenal nor "attained", rather, it is an experience in mind of the action of life in all phenomena.
Nirvana. A mind free of discriminations is a living mind of experience of the process of life.
Buddhahood is the mind's witnessing of the process that is E=Mc2, the energetic suchnesses arising and dissolutions.
Whenever you catch your mind asking “why?” this or that is happening, instead, pause and be amazed, simply amazed at the wonder and manifestations of your life.
Enjoy what there is to enjoy and endure what obstacles may arise. Return to your mind of Buddha throughout.
The Nidana is the process of all manifestations from potential (quiescent energy) and, also the process of the mind (thought experience).
To "be" the energy of life while in the manifestations of potential is the awakening of true experience.
Dignity is a dynamic and moving experience of life. Samsara is a “realm” of nouns, where Buddhahood is a verb.
To experience Buddhaness is to stand outside of the Nidana; a witness of dependent origination without origination.
Habit-energy, Expectations, Pre-conceptions can be our greatest obstacles to learning and experience of truth.
To 'be' is the process of witnessing the a priori of all manifestation of potential from quiescent energy.
Experience your life as it truly is happening, rather than dragging along the past as some sort of atonement!
Buddhism is about the mind; our attitude and intent. With our deluded mind we can destroy our Gohonzon, that is our potential Buddhahood.
The three 'will-bodies', also known as the three Buddha bodies, but from the perspective of the Bodhisattva practice.
The One vehicle. An inner realization of un-distracted and un-discriminated being in the entirety of the process of life.
Our voracious habit of identification has us using language as a validation of the ego and its permanence.
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Moment-to-moment, the process of life, manifestations of potential, each expression of "being" without possession.
Nichiren's mandala is not Gohonzon. Gohonzon is your awakened mind. The mandala is the tool to focus your consciousnesses.
A tree falls in the wood. Transmigration is both "thing-a-fying" and "suchness-ing". Transforming “nouns” (nama-rupa) to “verbs” (suchnesses).
Thinking that the mind's dreamings have their own agency is the magical thinking of the ignorant and simple minded.
Buddhism is about the Mind. The sutras are stories of the ways of the Mind. The personages are objectifications of thoughts.
To be "with" rather than to possess, is to realize the constant moment-to-moment manifestations of every potential.
Ego is imagined by Mind, a construction of identifications that lead to the magical idea of eternal gods and souls.
The Samsaric mind is like a telephoto lens that experiences myopically, while the Buddha-mind is like a maximal 360-degree wide angle lens that experience all life.
It is our incessant process of identification that we must arrest in order to experience emancipation.
The “habit energies” maintaining entanglements with imagined ownership, possession, etc., are manifested of the Alaya consciousness.
The mind is a lens by which to experience Buddhahood, unproduced but witnessed in its productions. At this stage of teachings, the 8th consciousness or Alaya, is considered the repository of all that is discriminated and to be separated of. This, of course, obviates the question of “where” is the “I” that discriminates this separation? The later development of the 9th or Amala consciousness provides a sort of mental cushion for this conundrum, a place of “residence” for the non-instantiation of quiescent energy.
The mind is a lens by which to experience Buddhahood, unproduced but witnessed in its productions.
Samsara is construction of "mind". One could say that the Nirvana or emancipation transcends this "mind".
Buddha is the energy of formations. We can witness and therefore experience the Buddha in the workings and instantiations of all phenomena through the training of our mind. This is Buddhaness or Buddhahood. Technically speaking, Buddha is by nature non-being, as it is not instantiated but only witnessed.
We begin with the Introduction of the Mahamati personage and the beginning of “his” long list of questions for the “Buddha” – Shakyamuni - to answer.
We end chapter one with one last attempt with the new laptop turns into a bit of a struggle. Back to the previous laptop to end this frustration, yay.
Apologies for the audio glitches. I am trying new hardware. As for this part of the Lanka we are reading several carryover concepts from early teachings that do not fit well into the Mahayana at this stage.
We practice the doctrine, elucidations, and scholarship of Nichiren's correct transmission of Shakyamuni's teachings of self enlightenment; the Lotus Sutra.
End of Introduction and Diving into the Lankavatara translation.
Seeking the innermost experience.
The struggle of later Mahayana until the teaching of the Lotus Sutra, remains in the turmoil of enlightenment to be experienced in the Samsaric or ‘relativistic’ realms. The discriminations of the abilities of mind in the Prajna-paramitas can become a sort of trap from which many misinterpretations may arise.
Not yet defined by the inclusion of the 9th consciousness, the Lankavatara wrestles with the objective experience of Buddha from within the eighth (Samsaric) consciousness.
Without the 9th consciousness. This author struggles with Buddhahood as a state outside of human experience and tries to shoehorn it into the Alaya or 8th consciousness. This misunderstanding, as the author points out, results in the delusion of the Alaya as a permanent, self-nature or “soul”, which, completely violates the core teachings of anatman (no-soul), impermanence, and no “self-nature”, even in Buddhahood.
The eight (8) Consciousnesses versus the complete understanding of Inherent Buddha as defined in the Nine (9) Consciousnesses.
Wuji to You and Me (the 9 Consciousnesses talk)
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The limitations of the 8 consciousnesses is evident in this Sutra as the 9th consciousness, the Amala, is not integrated into the Samsaric human manifestation to integrate the inherent Buddha mind into our Samsaric Bodhi life.
Some of this author’s language is a bit convoluted and filed with cultural bias. Generally, however, he comes out of the weeds okay.
Whether loudly, quietly or just in your mind, the Daimoku remains the same. In addition, as for travel, the Gohonzon is nowhere outside of your mind. Travel mandalas are available at cafepress.com/Gohonzon
Skillful means or Expedient means are the definition of our Bodhisattva practice to awaken the desire for Buddha-mind in all other sentient minds while expanding our own Buddha experience.
Buddhism is simple. Samsara, Human mind, the monkey mind of "identification", that is seriously complex and stubborn.
Nichiren’s final mandalas express his complete accomplishment and mission for universal propagation. Any names or characteristics added to the inscriptions of these final mandala’s are NOT Nichiren’s mandala, and therefore NOT Nichiren’s doctrine of correct transmission of Shakyamuni Buddha’s teachings of the Lotus Sutra and Buddhism
Entrustment. To live our Samsaric life in Buddha-mind while influencing others to do the same.
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This entire universe is our Buddha Land. Our Daimoku is the window, door, gate, to enter into Buddhaness.
To remain focused on Buddha-ness is to eliminate all entanglements of the Saha realms in the Buddha-Way.
Living life to the full means the support and inspiration for all others to do the same
Coursing through the worlds of the Hell of Incessant Suffering, we live the Buddha Way.
Living Beings. A process of manifestations in constant flux. Bodhi observing its essential non-permanence.
Potential = Probabilities = Formlessness.
Desire = Greed = Form = Attachment.
Possession = Fear = Anger = Hell
No matter how terrible the environment may appear to you, you must remember that the world is the mirror of your own state of mind.
Some straight talk about Buddhist practice supported by the scholarship and truth of the Lotus Sutra.
Early ideas of ten realms, Skandhas and Nidana are used to teach the layers of delusions of the mind.
Enlightenment is a completely ‘other’ experience of life, rather than a simple modification.
This BDK translation of Subhakarashima's modified sutra written and translated with his disciple Yixing is one of three key "sutra" adapted to form the basis for Shingon Buddhist sect.
This life is your opportunity to experience fully enlightened potential of life itself.
For those who accuse me of being "controversial" or "heavy-handed"...Here are some words of Buddhist scholarship.
Choose life, choose happiness, choose success, and choose enlightenment. Do not accept insult; take offense, trauma, and negativity. It is your mind; use it.
Conviction, courage, determination; with these we demand our 9th consciousness to manifest and lead our lives.
Nichiren, the fisherman's son is of no great stature, but, Nichiren the scholar and votary of the Lotus Sutra is our modern mentor and exemplar.
Study begets confidence and active meditation (chanting) begets enlightenment through insight and conviction.
From the first moment of chanting, we open our mind to a full experience of life unfettered by ego and attachment.
Attitude and Intent. Buddhism is about the mind and dissects our attitude and intent. NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo is the expression and experience of that mind.
Genome, DNA, Ancestry, our biology is affected by energies beyond our experience of life, but experienced moment to moment in our mind.
Life is Buddha. Buddha is our full experience of Life. We invoke Buddha through active and willful chanting of NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo.
Confused ideas of the goal of practice throughout the periods of Shakyamuni's teachings.
We are a moment to moment instantiation of tendencies and conditions expressed energetically and perceived only by mind.
Buddhaness throughout all time/space. In a single thought moment exist all potential manifestations.
To realize Buddhaness is the most beautiful expression of your life, dignity, and purpose.
To clear our mind’s cravings and constructs of ego, to realize our equanimity in the universe of Life, is the goal.
What seem like contradictions are completely resolved when all the teachings to their culmination (Lotus Sutra) are considered.
We are huge bundles of energies traveling through time/space. I am more accurately Sylvain-ness than Sylvain.
The need to be critical of other sects to keep the lineage of Shakyamuni's teachings clear and accurate.
The core of the Lotus Sutra is the doctrine of the 3000 Realms in a Single Thought Moment.
Nichiren opens with a history of teachings from India through China and leading to Japan.
The doctrine of the "3000 Realms in Each Thought Moment", is the perception of "Buddha".
"Formations" in Buddhist teaching is equal to Quantum teachings of "wave function" and collapse.
The Great Mandala; A pictorial representation of timeless Buddha and the personages of its constructs.
What do we mean or think when we use the word "Life"? Timeless, not material, a function of the engine that is the universe.
In this letter, Nichiren discusses the ultimate reality of all phenomena as MyoHoRenGeKyo understood in the doctrine of 3000 realms in each thought moment.
Like 2+2=4, where '4' is the prediction of the evolution of capacity and time, Nichiren is Shakyamuni's prediction of the Later Age realized.
How do each of us experience the world uniquely? Buddhaness is the experience of equanimity.
To inculcate and share the dignity and realization of enlightened mind is our bequeathed mission.
Share this video! Anyone who has turned away due to bad teachers, no matter how dramatic their quitting, can immediately return to the seed of their enlightenment through the practice of NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo
"Thus Have I Heard..." = NaMu. The ultimate method for immediate awakening of Buddha-ness = MyoHoRenGeKyo. This is the complete Daimoku of immediate manifestation of our innate Buddha potential.
Our enlightenment can only occur, manifest, in our own mind. Your Buddhahood cannot be given or taken.
Buddhism is a practice of Reason and Rational thought for the maximal expression and experience of this life.
What are "moments" and how do we influence them. Moments are measurements of "momentum". Life's momentum is influenced by the condition of each moment.
Our fundamental Buddha-nature is no small thing to understand. To influence our own mind of experience constantly with life affirming attitude and intent is amazing.
This is a simple practice, really. We chant to focus our creative minds on our most life affirming awareness and experience, to be mirrored in our environment.
Posers, Propaganda, and Pretenders pandering to mysticism rather than the truth; a political and egotistical condition of human tendencies.
Nichiren continues his recounting of the main aspects of scholarship and insights he gained from his study under the leadership of his late mentor.
How were so many students of Buddhism led astray from the correct and perfect teachings of the Lotus Sutra self-practice of Awakening Buddha?
The scholarship of Buddhist teachings and practice is an incumbent demand of living our most fully expressed potential.
The "truth" is obvious, "The Emperor is Naked"! The obstacles of attachment and disbelief can be near impossible to overcome. Our confidence is necessary to defeat the doubts that blind us to the truth.
The achievement of complete mastery of the Buddha Way and Awakening is the highest expression of gratitude for all parent, teacher, or sovereign in one's life.
The culmination of the lifetime teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha is the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus practice is the self-practice of invoking Buddhaness immediately in this life.
Tien-Tai’s ‘3000 realms (existences) in a single thought moment’ doctrine makes explicit the “original enlightenment” within all phenomena.
The Perfect teachings of the Fifth Period contain the explicit teachings of Tien-Tai’s ‘3000 realms (existences) in a single thought moment’ doctrine.
Throughout the Five Periods and the Four Doctrines, the teachings contained within them are all in service to and directed toward the self-practice teachings of the Lotus Sutra.
When you arouse the desire for enlightenment, you immediately become the Kaidan (place of enlightenment) to invoke the (Daimoku, essence) of Honzon (Buddhaness).
A hard line of realization between the Hinayana (Tripitaka and Common) nihilism and the Distinct (Bodhisattva) teachings shuns Sravaka and Pratyakabuddha until the Lotus Sutra.
The Four Doctrinal Teachings, from Tripitaka to Common, Wisdom and Perfect, of Shakyamuni Buddha, as Outlined by Nichiren Shonin.
Honzon, Kaidan, and O'Daimoku, are in fact embodied in, the 'three bodies of Buddha'. Dharma body, Manifest body, and Reward body.
Buddha-ness is up to you. Like teaching a child to understand the world correctly, it is on you to clear your mind.
On return from Sado Island and his moving to Mt. Minobu, Nichiren sets down his insights into the relative teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha.
There is only one teacher/parent/master of our worldly manifestation to emulate attainment of Buddha. All others are emanations (teaching tools) of Shakyamuni.
The instantiations of energies from Noumena to all Phenomena Form the momentum of Life/Time/Space. This process perceived in the mind as Buddha.
Just as a "map", can be separated into sections, from beginning to end, it is only the arrival at the destination that provides the value of the map.
Your Buddha-mind, the awakening of Buddha in your Samsaric mind, is the Most Venerable One. You are qualified, you are capable, you are a manifestation of this very state of being.
We are Sangha. Innately manifested of Buddha, we strive to awaken our Consciousness of Buddha. Together, throughout the 3000 Realms, we share our efforts, influence and practice.
We are manifest today from the exact same energies of the instantiation of this universe. Realization of this process of "Formations" is the enlightenment that liberates our momentary life.
Moving from the Spiritual Contemplation, Nichiren now begins to describe the actualization of contemplation to the experience (embodiment) of Buddhahood.
Buddha is our mind's ability to experience the fundamental nature of the Universe as the full expression of all potentials of formations from the energies that we are all instantiated from.
The energies that propel us through time/space, are perceived and experienced through the mind of Samsara. Captivated, we only react to our momentum. Freed, we can modify and anticipate.
As we deepen our practice of self-realization (Buddhahood), let us observe all of our interactions with others through their Buddha-nature potentials.
The mental state of perceptions and experience is the science of Buddhism. Our opportunity to observe these of realms within the mind is the wealth of our full human manifestation.
The Universe is the engine of all life. Sentient or in-sentient are separate only in mind but not in energy (matter). Therefore, Enlightenment is simply corrected perception of equanimity.
The core of Buddhist teaching is the 3000 realms in a single thought moment. This doctrine is fully expressed and captured in the O'Daimoku.
Buddhahood is our own mind's ability to observe the Samsaric manifestations of all potentials of the energies of the Universe without being constrained by them.
Uphold, Read, Recite the Lotus Sutra and your "reward" will be your maximal manifestation of life throughout the potentials of the universe.
Buddha is your mind of clarity. Your conviction, confidence and resolve are your energy of manifesting this truth in your life, and from your life. NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo
After demonstrating through scholarship, the proper time and teaching of the Lotus for this Age, Nichiren now shifts to the contemporary examples of his own life and times as proof.
“Like”, “Subscribe”, and “Sharing” this podcast/video, or any teaching of the Lotus Sutra or Gosho is itself an act of Bodhisattva! NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo
The Shingon School represents the most egregious affront and subversive political perversion of Buddhism in the era prior to this Latter Age. Boastful monks creating completely un-creditable manipulation of society and power in service to ego and greed.
In Nichiren's day, in Japan, a long history of degradation of the Buddhist teachings had come to represent a religious and deeply errored view of Buddhism. Nichiren simply and directly points out their errors.
The scholarship and profound meaning of the Buddha teachings are repeatedly verified over the millennia, even though the capacity of the people is limited until today to fully realize and put them into action.
The correct practice of Buddhist method to invoke the Buddha in our mind does not require intellect or unique qualifications. We live now in this Age, this Time of innate capacity to realize our Buddhaness immediately and perfectly.
In the beginning of this "Later Age of Degeneration" the rampant egotistical power hungry, animality, and foolishness gather political will to silence all who would extoll the true Dharma teaching of the Lotus Sutra.
Nichiren begins a review of each 500-year period of the spread and developments of Buddhist scholarship and corruptions after Shakyamuni Buddha's extinction.
Buddhahood is about the mind and the immediate experience of our enlightened nature in this very life in each moment to moment.
Dignity, abiding respect for life and the sentient mind of experience and curiosity; these are the basis for all relationships, with compassion for what is ignorance and value for self-teaching.
Nichiren , the disciple of Shakyamuni Buddha, quotes from the sutra teachings of the Buddha, the importance and the significance of teaching and practice at the correct time.
Nichiren closes with simple arguments to silence the criticisms of all other groups and sects that would negate the supremacy and complete teachings of the Lotus/Nirvana Sutras.
Follow the Dharma, not the person. Your study and practice are to experience the meaning and awakening of Buddha in your mind. Do not be led by the charisma and personality of others.
The Pure Land of Tranquil Light and Bliss is right here and now; yours to experience. All you need do is focus your mind on it. NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo!
How should we uphold the True Dharma? By reading, reciting, copying, and sharing this Lotus/Nirvana teaching with others.
We are constantly distracted by rumors and ideas appealing to our vanity and Earthly desires. Yet, what could be more grand than our own invocation and experience of Buddhaness?
Your "good friend" (reliable teacher) is you and the Lotus/Nirvana Sutras. Your direct relationship with Buddha is yours to experience at any time you will it.
Nichiren asks of those practicing Nembutsu teachings to demonstrate a direct quote from the writings of Shakyamuni supporting their claims, in order to shut him, Nichiren, down.
To be manifest as a human being, a sentient mind with the incredible opportunity to discover the True Dharma, is a precious and rare thing.
Addiction, Habit Energy, Craving and Clinging, Attachments; the entire breath of Shakyamuni's teachings is to intervene in our Samsaric addiction to things and our running away from personal responsibility and to reclaim our innate full control of our life condition and experience. This is Awakening. Be mindful of your loss of "reason" or depressions and thoughts of self-harm! Our Buddhist practice is built on a sound mind. Shakyamuni prohibited the use of intoxicants for precisely this reason. If you are in crisis, you must reach out to professionals with the ability to return you to your reason and "normal" mind. From there your practice will be successful.
Those who slander the True Dharma “must be dealt with”. It is our responsibility to the propagation of the True Dharma to rebuke slander and errors in practice.
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Addiction, Habit Energy, Craving and Clinging, Attachments; the entire breath of Shakyamuni's teachings is to intervene in our Samsaric addiction to things and our running away from personal responsibility and to reclaim our innate full control of our life condition and experience. This is Awakening.
The Lotus/Nirvana Sutras are the only teachings that provide for the achievement of Enlightenment (Buddhahood) of those people of "Learning, Realization, and Arhat".
Communication is easily distorted through words and personal insights that do not necessarily resonate in others’ ears or in their experiences.
The Lotus Sutra is the easiest to practice method to experience Buddha immediately in our Mind.
Nichiren is our Mentor because he teaches directly from Shakyamuni's teachings without deviation. He is the embodiment of "Bodhisattva Superior Practice".
Samsara is the hell of incessant sufferings. To invoke Buddha into our Mind consciousness is to live this life fully realized of our ultimate potential.
Epistemology and Buddha Wisdom; the way we construct "knowledge" is greatly responsible for our life experience.
Nichiren teaches from history and all sutras and commentaries to demonstrate the obvious in terms of Buddhist teachings and the final method of practice.
Some of our most harsh self-criticisms actually conceal our most profound self-discoveries. Be steadfast in keeping your Buddha channel open to eventually perceive the awesome payoff.
It is easy to be misled by "teachers" with personal agendas in this Era of "Greed (worldly pleasures), Anger (manipulation and backstabbing), and Foolishness (vulnerability and belonging)”.
The actual texts of Buddhist scholarship (sutras) all agree and support the Lotus Sutra (MyoHoRenGeKyo) as the ultimate teaching of attaining Buddhaness for all.
The Butsudan is the erected stupa, and your single-minded dedication to awaken Buddha in your mind is "NaMu".
From the texts of the words of Shakyamuni Buddha on the Lotus as sole Mahayana Teaching, to the difference between Hinayana and Mahayana.
Nichiren continues discussion on the proper understanding of the order and sequence of Shakyamuni's teachings.
Nichiren opens with a discussion on the proper understanding of the order and sequence of Shakyamuni's teachings.
Your mind is the Treasure Tower of the Lotus Sutra, the Jeweled Stupa of NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo.
We experience all potential and possibilities in each moment of life, yet we are aware of only a tiny fraction through our tendencies and limited conditioning.
Our Self-Practice is the teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha's Lotus Sutra. Our modern age mentor and exemplar is Nichiren through his scholarship and Mandala of the ultimate teaching of immediate original enlightenment.
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Our Self-Practice is the teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha's Lotus Sutra. Our modern age mentor and exemplar is Nichiren through his scholarship and Mandala of the ultimate teaching of immediate original enlightenment.
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Birth and Death are not the beginning and end of "Life". We manifest in order to experience the Mind, which is the very experience of all realms, Buddha.
To remain in our life condition of awakening is to course throughout the day in our Buddha consciousness.
Your characteristics, your nature and your essence are in fact, the consistency from beginning and end of Life, all life.
In this Final episode of this Gosho, Nichiren demonstrates the consistency from the beginning of Shakyamuni's teachings to the culmination of self-practice in MyoHoRenGeKyo.
Heartfelt appreciation is the energy we must radiate into our environs, manifest of our profound confidence in our Buddha Suchness, NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo.
Lots of emails and questions about integrating practice into daily life. So, really questions about "Earthly desires are themselves Enlightenment"...
Part 9 of the Gosho on The Teaching Approved by all Buddhas continues with the obviating of the Lotus Sutra, MyoHoRenGeKyo, as the "Self-Practice" of awakening one's Buddha experience in the sentient mind of individuals. All other practices are only provisional as preparation for Self-Practice.
From Quiescence to Formations, the Universe and everything "within" it including all Samsara, humans and Minds, are experiences of Buddha.
Nichiren delves into the first sermon of Shakyamuni to demonstrate the seed of the true nature of life as a consistent thread within all teachings.
Life is the time/space process of the formations and manifestations of Potential from Quiescent Energy – Energy + Action = Karma = "Life".
Life is the Time/Space process of "Life". Buddha is our mental perception/experience of this process.
Life is the Time/Space process of "Life". Buddha is our mental perception/experience of this process.
The Teaching Approved by all Buddhas - Part 4 continues Nichiren's clarifying and direct language of Buddhist Mind, Buddha being a universal state or process of the life of all phenomena from the universe itself and every "thing" within its borders of space and time.
From Quiescence, Potential transmigrates through Formations to manifest all Forms. To experience this truth is the Mind of Buddha.
Teachings prior to the Lotus provide a "Buddhahood” of the dream world; not true Buddhahood.
Nichiren reveals the profound teaching within the Lotus Sutra of the flow of time and space, perceived in our mind, is the very entity of Buddha Mind.
Comparing and contrasting the mind of the living in Samsara versus Buddha state as we grieve the deceased.
Learning to douse the fires of rage with the laughter of the spirit provides opportunity for the edification of all those involved.
This Gosho translation is from a dissertation of Jaqueline Stone on the corpus of Nichiren writings.
It is our great opportunity to experience the reality of suchnesses in process, momentum and kinetic manifestation; by awakening our mind to Buddha perception.
Life is our most precious treasure. Our life is part and parcel of the life of the universe. There is no difference; and death is a moment-to-moment experience completely separate from extinction which is the end of Mind.
Nichiren appreciates an offering of food and makes a lesson of the nature of resolve, attitude, and commitment in our Buddhist practice.
The Mind only occurs in this Samsaric Body. This Body only occurs in this Universe of incalculable manifestations (Body).
The majority of this document does track with the teachings and doctrines of Nichiren, Dengyo, to Shakyamuni. One egregious error at the start may be the flaw of translation.
Ongi Kuden #7 is a further discussion on the student monk notes on lectures and teachings of Nichiren and their many interpretations to aid in teaching to others needs and capacity.
Notes to one's self for learning and "ways-of-teaching" Shakyamuni's Lotus teachings, in a summary form of Nichiren's doctrines, through the teachings of Fuji school seniors.
In the form of notes to oneself for learning and "ways-of-teaching", this document is a summary of Nichiren's doctrines through the eyes and understanding of Fuji school seniors.
More focused on quotes from the "Ongi Kuden" we now see the dissection of words and phrases in search of meaning for the doctrines of Nichiren and his followers.
A Fuji school monk referencing several documents and the Ongi Kuden, makes assertions and analogies that hold some convoluted views of "self" and identification.
A document by a Fuji School monk, referencing several documents, as well as notes and impressions by Ajari Nikko of lectures by Nichiren that Nikko recorded as the Ongi Kuden.
A document making reference to another document, purported to be notes on lectures from Nichiren to his 6 senior monks.
Finally, a concise and complete explanation of the Original Enlightenment of Ichinen Sanzen from Chi-i to the Mandal and Daimoku of Nichiren Shonin.
Conclusion of this document is its faithfulness to the corpus of Nichiren teachings and the doctrines of Scholarship in Buddhist practice, the Lotus sutra and Nichiren's elucidations on the doctrines of original Enlightenment.
Lectures heard and recorded by Niko Shonin in the final years of Nichiren's instructions for propagation.
The original formation energies of the universe are constantly abiding forces of our life (effect).
The original formation energies (cause) of the universe are constantly abiding forces of our life (effect).
5 versus 1 - From Nichiren's established center of propagation at Mt. Minobu, and 6 senior monks, one monk dissented and spilt to start the Fuji school.
From Mount Minobu's central role in Nichiren Doctrine promulgation and the sole split of Nikko to Mount Fuji.
We "exist" in discrete thought-moments. Emptiness can be perceived between each moment.
To awaken the Buddha-mind is to perceive the ephemeral nature of all phenomena and beginningless time/space.
How does our practice and study of Buddhism challenge our Human nature? The greatest obstacles are created in Mind.
To awaken the mind of Buddha is to perceive the ephemeral nature of all life and experience.
It is the mechanism that causes us to "react" to situations, rather than to see, hear, and experience differences of perception.
First published in 1893, this small book/essay is a wonderful introduction to Lotus Sutra Buddhist practice and Nichiren.
The three "bodies" of the Tathagata are manifested all at once when we invoke our Tathagata-nature. These three bodies are simply the aspects of our enlightenment.
Your Buddha expands your potential and influence throughout your entire life and universe. It all begins with the propagation of NaMuMyoHoRenGeKyo. Whether you begin at the top or the bottom, the result is always enlightenment.
Trying something different this week with my talk before Gongyo. Talk is about HOW does our Buddhist practice work in our daily life.
Of those who hear even a single verse or phrase of the "Sutra of the Lotus Blossom of the Wonderful Dharma", I (Shakyamuni) confer a prophecy of "anuttara-sanmyak-sambodhi” (complete and perfect enlightenment).
The collapse of the dualities of Samsara; the physical and the foundational Energy from which all phenomena are derived, constructed.
Invocation of innate Buddha nature. Read, Recite, Copy, and Share this sutra. Chant to enliven your Buddha nature and mind. Contemplate those Samsaric challenges emanating from your karma to apply your Buddha-ness to its maximal potential!
Energy of Potential to Energy of Formations to Formations, endurance, decay and dissolution is the process of all phenomena, Buddha.
Attitude and Intent while coursing in the world as a Bodhisattva is paramount; avoiding confrontation with samsaric influence of lower life condition while representing the Buddha mind; to course as exemplar and teacher.
Na and Mu interpretation; Building our reservoir of confidence and Life Condition of Bodhisattva
The painting has no meaning. It is we for whom the meaning is created by mind. This attachment of attributes is the root for our stress and anxieties.
This is your practice. Follow your own study to resolve all doubt and commit to your enlightenment. No other can take it from you or impede your achievement!
Nagarjuna to 3000 Realms and Nichiren to the silent meditations and what to chant about.
What we call "reality" is a constructed view of self, defended by ego to describe samsaric causation, and severed from the actual process.
From CE 150'ish Nagarjuna, 500 years later to Chi-i to Miao-lo, Dengyo to the 13th century Japan scholar Nichiren and now to Jacqueline Stone, PhD, the awareness of the mind's role in our Samsaric experience draws a straight line.
Samsara is a condition of mind (perception) something like a screened door. We tend to focus on the screen or what lies beyond. Enlightenment is like seeing the constructed within both.
www.LULU.com/spotlight/kwoon is a terrific resource for study and reference that also aids greatly to support and extend the continued efforts of this school and our Sangha.
Born Siddartha Gautama, and after 6-7 years of many Brahman practices, Siddhartha left the ascetic practices to find for himself the core truth of life to free sentient beings from the traumas and stress that plague human experience. Through much meditation, visions and dreams he found the fundamental nature of all phenomena.
The Middle Path. How to course in the world of physical formations while maintaining the Buddha Mind. The Buddha-Nature is the Middle Path.
Buddha-ness is Life energy. No one can give or take away your Buddhahood. Only you can invoke your all-seeing, all-being nature of all phenomena.
To know one's true nature is to course in the unattached experience of humanity and equanimity as a guide, a facilitator, and a liberator.
The last conversations of Shakyamuni Buddha as he prepared for his extinction. The conversion of a Brahman to Buddhism on the basis of the distinctions of the Energy of Formations and Samsara versus the mind of perception detached from the formations as the experience of fully enlightened nature.
Much misunderstanding on the moral concepts of meat-eaters and prohibitions on meat are discussed. As representative of the Dharma, we must conduct ourselves with respect to all cultures and their fears to transcend and befriend.
Karma is the energy of formations. These 'formations' are not static, they are in constant process, constant change, constantly interacting, they are the support of life. Mind is our obsession with identification of these formations (karma).
Is Karma good or bad? What does it mean to “raise bad karma” when we practice “correctly”? Who decides?
You will not find the awakened mind in the nature or discriminations of words or language. This is identification of the constructed reality of Mind-only (Samsara). The Awakened mind is free of this.
The Mind of Consciousnesses seizes the objects of the world for its own knowledge and remembrance in the construction of timelines and logic to be then, experienced through the mind only.
The Mind of Consciousnesses seizes the objects of this world for its own knowledge and remembrance in the construction of timelines and logic to be then experienced through the mind-only.
The Lankavatara Sutra is an Indepth perceptive dive into the instantiation of things in the "Mind" as unique from "things" in the real world.
A child experiences disaster when its toys are taken away. The toys do not contain or own the child's joy, and yet the child volunteers its life condition to the toy. This is the samsaric attachment.
Our Sangha spans the entire globe. Please tune into this New Year Gongyo at the hour you feel most comfortable. Have a brilliant and fruitful life and practice!
Love and respect,
Sifu Sylvain
The MahaPrajnaParamita Sutra states a Bodhisattva is, "anyone who ceaselessly seeks unexcelled, perfect enlightenment as well as the happiness and welfare of all beings.
Thinking about thinking is to reveal that there is a thinker who thinks. Of what nature is that "thinker" and how does it manifest?
The "thing" (walking, talking, bodhisattva, etc...) is not the "thing" itself; rather it is the result of the energies put forth to manifest the "thing" that are the thingness. mass = Energy/"c" squared (kinetic, momentum).
Use the search and the Playlists to search hundreds of topics in the Channel website on YouTube. Use the resource information on http://threefoldlotus.com
The Perfection of Wisdom is a process but is not itself the Perfection of Wisdom. The Perfection of Wisdom is the process one undertakes to achieve the state of attainment one derives from the process of Perfection of Wisdom.
The Diamond Sutra of the Perfection of Wisdom sutras is a well-known and pivotal early Mahayana text on the development of a great being or Bodhisattva.
The Buddha of Absolute Freedom is the mind state that perceives life in discrete moments of "being" rather than concatenating those moments into a separate real "thing".
All this Karika is demonstrating is in the profound understanding from dependent origination, that all our Samsaric experience is constructed from a flow of momentary instantiations that occur in mind as a continuous "line", while in reality never "are" or "become" a line or linear "thing".
Dharma of two minds; that of 'being' and that of observing the 'being'. Two 'experiences'; one bound by Samsara, distinctions and identification, the other unbound and free to live fully in the revels of time.
This granular analysis of mental processes is an exercise to facilitate the depth of the concept of impermanence. To the degree that we can "let go" of attachment while remaining aware within Samsara.
These initial versus are to establish the infinitesimal and dissections of 'life' process to discern clearly the state of "things" as ephemeral instantiation, labeled by the mind but extant only in flashes of potential from flows of energies providing a ground for expression. Nothing persists but the process.
Sunyata - is not nothing - Noumena - is the a-priori of formations that precipitate tendencies and conditions in momentary experience without permanence. Experience is Perception. Samsara requires Endurance.
The Middle Way and the "emptiness" of all phenomena are the profound philosophical reasoning of Nagarjuna's seminal work for Mahayana Buddhism and scholarship.
Focus your Daimoku on the Joy of Buddhahood. With the Joy of Buddha Mind comes calm, understanding, equanimity, and the release from Dukkha.
Breaking down our mind of consciousness and beneath its observable thoughts to its constructed basis for action leads to the karmic foundations of our Samsaric life.
To separate the Samsaric "experience" from the Mind of Consciousness of the experience is to fully experience "Life" while uninfluenced by its manifestations of karma.
Once again Shakyamuni drills down into the Samsaric mind to perceive the arising, endurance and decay of the "body" as evidence of the function to support a mind of "knowing" independent of the body and its potential to be untethered from it.
Our bodies are solely machines to facilitate the manifestation of Mind. Our Minds exist for the opportunity to experience the magnificent process of Life; all Life.
Early Buddhist teachings on "Mindfulness" on the perception of impermanence as it occurs in the observation of the body through breathing and the formations of energy that instantiate this process.
This story of a "rich man" named Vimalakirti tells of many attributes, some Buddhist and some Samsaric, that the students of the day would consider highly praise-worthy of the Bodhisattva way. However, as Burton Watson's translations are always canted toward religious and Christian rhetoric, it is difficult to separate his own cultural admirations from the descriptions of Vimalakirti. As the story continues to develop, we will see the expedient means toward understanding the Dharma.
How is it that each of us experience the world differently? Even siblings define the same "exact" things in different ways. This difference is constructed of our own mind, our unique pathways of distinctions.
Our experience of life is deeply colored by our mind of perception; our identification and attachments created by delusions of desires. To detach perceptions from those delusions of self and ego, we become awakened to an entirely amazing perception of the wonders of the world, previously disguised by stress and anxiety.
Cultivating the mind of Buddha in a community rather than solipsistic practice is the Boddhisattva path to complete and perfect enlightenment.
To go beyond the learnings of the Arahant and challenge one's Samsaric life to live as a Bodhisattva, walking the Buddha Way as influence and facilitator to all others for attainment of the Buddha Mind.
An early Mahayana text on non-duality, and the nature of the mind, discussed for the extended dharma to progress arahants and bodhisattvas in the developing of Mahayana concepts.
To course in the perfection of Wisdom is to achieve a life-state of unstressed and equanimity.
To course in the Perfect Wisdom; a Bodhisattva, enlightened beyond awakening to immerse oneself in Samsara as inspiration and guide to others' liberation; to the Buddha Way, the Perfection of Wisdom.
We exist in all these realms; all of time. Are you in the rapids or are you observing them?
To navigate the sea of Samsara by detaching but not obliterating all tendencies and conditions (suchnesses), developing compassion without immersion.
These early Mahayana teachings delve deeply into the nature of Samsaric constructions of identity and detachment for the Bodhisattva path.
We begin the review of Edward Conze's translation of The Perfection of Wisdom in 8000 lines.
Everyone has a different meaning for it, and few understand the full implications of this word; meditation. Every thought we experience in consciousness is a meditation; the real question is the purpose of it.
Well, All of Shakyamuni's sermons ARE chanting. Remember that the word chant or chanting is rooted in the French and Latin "Sing or Singing". Remember also, the Sutras are in verse form and were taught, learned, transmitted, using recitation and repetition; the same way you learned the alphabet.
I'm thinking Sundays would be most ideal for an abbreviated Gongyo, five meditations, followed by some sutra study for a weekly activity to solidify our practice and study as a Sangha.
We study other sutra from the perspective of our Lotus Buddhism practice and Nichiren's Doctrines. Which do we choose next of these five; Vimalakirti, Lankavatara, Diamond, Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 lines, Nagarjuna Mulamadhyamakakarika.
Siddhartha Gautama was first inspired to seek enlightenment for the purpose of living a fully expressed life without the impedance of fear, pain, and despair. Buddha is the life condition of freeing the mind from the bondage of fear, pain, and despair.
Enunciate each and every syllable while considering the meaning of each of the characters. This will sharpen your focus to the "Single-minded effort to see the Buddha" of your practice.
What is daimoku, what does it mean, why do we do it? Oh, and what should we be thinking?
It is long overdue. A complete re-write and overhaul of my 15 to 20 year-old publication of "Beyond Zen". The old rhetoric and difficult to read essay collection of decades gone by is no longer reflecting my far more educated scholarship and understanding of each concept explored in this book.
We must train the monkeys of our Samsaric mind to become the supporters of our Buddha mind for our enlightenment. We run the monkeys and NOT the other way 'round.
We are Planets, we are stardust, and we can witness the process of all phenomena only through the Buddha mind. Each thought, word, or action we take is itself the product of incalculable interactions and amalgams of tendencies and conditions of formations of karma (energy + work). This process began at the instant of formation that precipitated the space/time of this entity we call the Universe.
So this is a question that persists, and this is a different take on the Dharma as a personal experience.
So I tie all of this together to answer the questions of "where do I come from", "why am I here", "why am I different from others", and so on. To know this is not necessary for your practice, but it can provide many of us with personal insights into the ever-present "Why" and "how"; and fuel for our conviction toward our Buddha-ness.
With the nine (9) Consciousnesses we come to the ultimate nature of our Amala Consciousness, the Inherent instantiation of our Buddha-ness.
The Skandhas further elaborate on the shift in the 12 linked causal chain between the beginning of accumulations of the Formations and as they begin to assimilate sense elements and apprehensions.
The Nidana defines the process of life from the subtle energy in combination with work (Karma). Skandhas enumerate the development of "sense consciousness" withing the first steps of the Nidana. Those consciousnesses enumerate into 9 Samsaric consciousnesses to experience the process of life as human be-ings.
1-materialities, 2-feelings, 3-cognitions, 4-motivational dispositions, 5-consciousnesses. This "freight train" of energy and work (karma) is imbued with the desires of manifestation of senses and experience.
This is a discussion of the REALMS from Chih-I's analysis of the Lotus Sutra, as adopted and propounded by Nichiren and the scholars before him.
One of the multiplying factors in the teaching of the granular construct we think of as life experience.
In the Buddhist definition of Mental functions that lead to our experience of Samsaric Life, the TEN WORLDS, each of which contain the same ten divisions or worlds also are sub-constructed of TEN FACTORS that together represent 1000 interwoven threads of perception/cognition and decisions made in each and every moment of life effecting our momentum and inertia or trajectory in Samsaric "time".
When Shakyamuni attained and then taught Enlightenment, he realized he needed to extend the psychological meaning of mundane words to attempt to describe the facets and character of being and Enlightenment. To describe the life condition, the mental cognition of Buddha-ness is to understand the complete teaching of the 3000 realms in a single thought moment of life.
This is a place when the ego is subjugated to the absolute dignity of life in overwhelming compassion for the benefit of others.
When we perceive the nature of the formations of karma and attachment, we can realize a path to Buddha-ness.
A blast of adrenaline. The excitement of accomplishment. It is fun, rewarding, and... addicting. The very spark of attachment and an obstacle to higher life conditions.
This delusional experience is based on quiescence. However, this is a condition of no-life or post death.
Once the Ego feels at home within society, ANGER provides the mental space for manipulations and back-stabbing, false flattery and other tools of getting one's desires fulfilled. Anger can be used positively as in a parent presenting enticements to children to pry them from danger, life a busy street. But generally is is an insipient negative of ego.
One predominating feature of Animality is the EGO within a societal structure. Power dynamics, brute force rule and cowardice. A volatile mind state that can be used constructively but left in control can be the ruin of any relationship.
A constant state of craving, unsatiable and self destructive. One of the three lower paths (worlds) of experience.
We transmigrate through 3000 realms in every single thought moment of life. Hell, is one of Ten major "worlds" of experience, while it too is divided by the same ten worlds, yielding 100 potential states of mind each with ten factors, and three existences to influence and experience in the mind states that direct our actions.
The core teachings of Nagarjuna are reiterated in the teachings of the story of Amida and the Noble Eightfold Path leading to awakening as a way to incorporate the understanding of "Emptiness" of human attachment.