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.

Sandie Says ....

Just googling a bit and came across Sandie Shaws web site ... forgotten that she was a Buddhist too. Found a bit she had posted in her Buddha Room that I liked and have posted it below.
Oh .. and for a limited time, there's a free download of a new version of Puppet on a String (Simon :-) to celebrate her 60th birthday.
One last thing he said was that when we are chanting for our dreams and desires – and we get negative feedback from our environment, or it seems that something just isn’t happening, or we are told "this will never happen", or "cant happen" – he said that this is our cue, our opportunity to transform the karma. We have two choices, one is to give up, the other is to chant with complete conviction that we will transform the doubt and lack of self worth we have about ourselves. The environment reflects both our positive and negative tendencies and most of the time the negative ones are how we feel about ourselves. He said that although Nichiren’s Buddhism was the Buddhism of Cause we still keep trying to change/manipulate the Effect in the environment. He said we must focus on the Cause, on our own lives and eradicate our lack of self worth. Then the environment will respond to our treasuring and valuing our lives accordingly.

1 comment:

Tamarai said...

Oooh. Nice quote. Thanks.