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.

Somewhat more constructive

Well .. after yesterday's poor effort where the most constructive thing I did was to delete 900 text messages from my phone (that was fun !); Today has so far been reasonably constructive. Woke up at 8am and after a quick cuppa, did an hours chanting this morning which was good .. and still only 10am when I'd normally be thinking of dragging myself out of bed for my first cuppa. After that, I did a fairly quick tidy and clean of the flat .. looking better now .. more relaxing.

Also .. did some work .. yes .. on a Sunday !. One good thing about not having any money come in is that it's spurred me to start 2 or 3 new business ventures .. nothing huge but will hopefully bring a few thousand a year in .... I need to just get ahead a bit .. so that's the work plan for the week really .. get some of these up and running. Also went for a swim .. so quite a full Sunday morning for me !

And that's it so far .. time for brunch now and yes I am still listening to the excellent Julia Biel CD
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