Welcome to my Blog. I'm a practising member of SGI-UK a lay buddhist organisation practising the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin. It is often described as a practise of Active Humanism which I think reflects it perfectly. The basic practise is the chanting of 'Nam Myoho Renge Kyo' on a daily basis and putting the practise into use in our daily lives thereby making this a practical rather than esoteric form of Buddhism. For more information, please follow the Buddhist links on the right of this page


“Prayer is the courage to persevere. It is the struggle to overcome our own weakness and lack of confidence in ourselves. It is the act of impressing in the very depths of our being the conviction that we can change the situation without fail. Prayer is the way to destroy all fear. It is the way to banish sorrow, the way to light a torch of hope. It is the revolution that rewrites the scenario of our destiny... Believe in yourself! Don't sell yourself short! Devaluing yourself is contrary to Buddhism, because it denigrates the Buddha state of being within you.”.
Daisaku Ikeda.

Ch ch ch changes ................

Not the most interesting day yesterday and must admit that I felt bored for quite a bit of it. Did have a phone call in the evening from a Buddhist though who explained to me why he was stopping practising. Some of the reasons were personal and he may well change his mind in time, but he did bring up a few 'issues' which I sometimes feel we ignore .. to do with the organisational side of things of course ... nothing major but maybe we don't , as 'leaders' always project our thoughts too well and resort to terminology or just regurgitate things we have read. It's important to remember that we want people to practise so that they can change their lives for the better and therefore, society. Surely that is the key point of this practise .... Certainly got my mind whirring about how new people see us and how we casually use terminolgy when we shouldn't ... so my determination from this point on is to be the 'kick ass' buddhist in our area :-)

Actually managed to get out of bed (after watching an episode of Buffy of course) and go to the Mens meeting this morning .... only 3 there which isn't surprising really as it is the Bank Holiday, but worth going to as I managed to to a few thoughts over ... the revolution starts here lol

1 comment:

Sibri said...

I'll hold em, You kick ass!