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.

New Year

Happy New Year all ....

Well I guess this is the bit where I put down my determinations for 2008 though they don't really differ from last year to be honest. The only newish one really is the amount of daimoku to be done. For the last 6 months of last year I chanted an average of 1 1/4 hours a day which was more than double what I was doing (though it took a marathon at the end to hit that target !), and on the whole, it wasn't too difficult so I'm setting a year long target this year of a nice round 500 hours .. which works out at 1 hour and 21 or 22 mins. I'll have a look round to see if I can find some sitre or other to log my progress and keep it as a permanent link on the right but for now I'll log it at the bottom (already 45 mins behind lol).

Anyway ... I reckon these are my key determinations for the year:

  1. Finally sort my finances out and get some sort of order
  2. Find a relationship
  3. Chant 500 hours during the year
  4. Keep going to gym but increase a bit (more swim less jacuzzi !)
  5. Have some sort of holiday

That's that .. but I've also decided to have a monthly concrete determinations and for January they are:

  1. Hang on in there financially .. it's going to be a really tough month (tax man !)
  2. Enshrine my Tokubetsu Gohonzon one way or another !
  3. Spend 20 mins per day at least to flat sorting (throwout/clean)

So that's it so far and with a target daimoku after 2 days of approx 2.75 hours, I;ve done 2 so a bit to catch up on already :)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I hope you suceed in all of those Charlie. Happy New Year.