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.

It's the end of Summer as we know it (unofficially anyway)






















Only unofficially because cricket season hasn't ended yet .. quite !!

But also, unofficially as last night marked the start of the new Jazz season though in a bit of a 'warm up' way. The realMcCoy ie the Jazzsteps gigs start tomorrow, but last night saw Simon Spillet appear at the Fiveways pub in Nottingham with a local backing band. On the whole a pretty good night for £6 and the backing band are pretty decent too. A couple of negatives was the beer was awful so whisky was drunk unsurprisingly. Also half way through the second set, a woman in front of us passed out causing a bit of a panic. Anyway, we managed to carry her outside (still in her chair !!) and after getting some fresh air she seemed to recover ok. One of the guys with her kept saying to us ... "don't get old .. don't get old" ... cheers mate :).

It's nice to be somewhere, where at nearly 50, you'r by far the youngest there lol

And that's it really .. hectic week or so coming upo including a long trip to Knebworth on Sunday for a Buddhist course .... should be good though.

More soon ....



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