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.

MMMMmmm that's better

Feeling a bit more relaxed today .. maybe I should lay off the Greek Coffee and espresso ... Didn't hit any orange robe Buddhists yesterday (as if I ever would :-) ... Actually only got there for an hour and pleased that I did. It was so dead - think I saw about 2 members of the public in total and the others were Buddhists .. and not many of them either. Actually made you realise that, despite being one of the lesser well known in this countries, we probably have a lot more helpers. There was one guy on all day from the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order where as we had several different people throughout the day ... I guess the other Buddhists were nice but they did appear and sound like they'd eaten nothing but brown rice and lentils for the last few years lol.

Anyway .. going for a swim now and hopefully crack on with some more work this afternoon. Am out for a beer tonight .. hopefully it will be warm enough to sit outside ... most likely the Playhouse bar.

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