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.

Benefit at Last !!!

Benefit .. at last !!!
Ok .. I've decided this myspace ting is going to be mainly, but not exclusively a Buddhist Blog from now on ... partly to hopefully keep me more focussed (or is it an excuse to delay doing gongyo and chanting lol). But I thought I'd post a quick one as I've been chanting specifically for a couple of things .. one of which is to be more secure financially .. a difficult thing to do when you're self employed.

Anyway .. yesterday I sent an invoice to a client for a fraction of £50 and he sent me a cheque which arrived today for £100 with a note saying .. please up invoice to £100 .. How cool is that ... cheers mate :-)

This weekend, I'll be attending my first ever Mens course after practising for knocking on 12 years. I've never been keen on single sex courses (karma karma) .... but this one does fit in with an otherwise quiet and potentially dull weekend so I thought I should give it a shot .. oh and because of some nagging from a Young Womens member ... and in revenge here's a somewhat amusing pic of her

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I'm back ...... God .. so much nagging lol

What's been happening .. well loads really but can't say as I'm sworn to secrecy and would betray trusts so won't be posting that .. been a bit of a Bodhisattva really I guess !

But today I'm in a SAD mood .... Having only needed 3 points to ensure first division cricket next season, Notts managed only a single point in most possibly the worst display of Cricket I've ever seen and if I'm honest, on that performance alone deserve to go down !! Anyway .. cricket is cricket I guess .. I'll be there next year. There is an extremely small hope we can stay up but it ain't gonna happen .. to think we won the damn thing last year !!! Maybe it's because I forgot to do gongyo this morning ... will do it soon.

Buddha wise been a fairly busy week with a good discussion meeting with three new people there which always makes it more interesting. One of those and her partner came via a stall we had at the Environment Agency Diversity day .. also had others interested and need to get stuff out to them.

Oh well .. cricket season over now so I'll be able to focus more on other things I guess .. like work for example, though of course, it's now Jazz season and went to the Bonington last night to see Gilad Atzmon's new incarnation - artie fishel and the promised band ... funny and second set was good but not the best I've seen him ..... by the way .. I've done the new Jazz Steps site see here .. do you like it ?

Oh well onwards and upwards ... or downwards for Notts ..... tidy up day today ready to really crack on with work on Monday ....

later y'all

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Finally

A post .... !!!!

After much nagging I finnally did it ... but not here .... thought I'd give myspace a chance see if anyone actually reads it there so have a look at http://www.myspace.com/ritsos .. Maybe I'll have an SGI myspace too when I get round to it

happy now Si ;-)
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