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.

Sunday Bloody Hot Sunday

So hot today .. but lovely .. apart from the not sleeping too well bit of course .. Still after yesterdays chanting when I managed to do about 3/4 hour and today I went to Kosen Rufu so have already done an hour ... Don't know why I always struggle to do 10 mins .. always feels so much better after doing more.

Anyway .. one good thing is that England are out of the World Cup so we won't have to watch any more crap football hopefully ... Also won't have to listen to the crap on the news .. latest is that Rooney shouldn't have been sent off becuase it was for the push on Ronaldho ... people seem angry that he wasn't sent off for the stamp on the testicles of the Portugese guy just because the ref didn't SEE it.. Fact is that he DID it though so why people are moaning I;ve no idea ...

Anyway ... our neighbour took his flag down yesterday so that makes the gardens look nicer :-)

Went to the Chill in the Park festival .. for about 10 mins .. pretty dull .. just drunks, drugs and drums ... too many hippies ;-) .. So I headed into town for a long cofee and listened to some more rembetika ... I'm on a mission to get more people to hear that .. so here's a link to a track by Markos Vamvakaris one of the best.

Right .. shower now to cool down, then a cuppa before doing some more chanting, maybe some work and a bit of TV

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