Chanting Buddha: Lazy Sunday Afternoon (and morning)

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.

Lazy Sunday Afternoon (and morning)

Well .. many of yesterday's best laid plans didn't come to fruition. Received a text from Emily to meet for coffee at 4pm. Thankfully, experience has taught ne to be prepared for those being a looonnng eveing ans ure enough, we ended up drinking wine until closing time more or less ! One good thing about going drinking with her is that I do at least go to places I probably wouldn't go to .. and you definitely see some sites !! Plenty of stag and hen nights out too !

Anyway .... definitely feeling a bit jaded today so it's going to be an easy one .... about to go back to bed at 11.30am to watch more Buffy DVD with a cuppa, then I'll try to do a min of half hour chanting before having a late brunch in front of TV as there's a decent film on this afternoon ... Harvey.