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.

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SGI President Ikeda's Daily Encouragement for April 14
Thoreau, a renowned American Renaissance thinker, wrote in his journal: "Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment." We shouldn't put anything off but seize the moment, living with all our being in the present. If we do that, he says, each moment will become eternity.


Well .. I was certainly correct about yesterday ... NOT my most creative ever, in fact, I only did the bare minumum of what I needed to do .... Seems, that as I get older, I don't recover from drinking like I used to do and I suspect that today will only be marginally better.

In fact, I did sleep in this morning and decided to make the most of the first day of the bank holiday by lying in Bed, watching Buffy DVDs ! ..

Not really planning a great deal today .. maybe a bit of flat tidying (or maybe not !) .. Definitely going for a swim in an hour or so .. just hope it's not full of kids as they're on hols ... grrrrrr little buggers !


And that's about it for today really ... maybe pop into town for a coffee, maybe a little work but all in all a nice lazy day (despite what the guidance for today says :-)

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