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.

Oh we're still the ..........

MIDGET SUBMARINES !!!!


After an abscence of 16 years, the legendary Midgets .. well 3 of them, got back together for a rehearshal as we're doing a one off gig in November .. don't worry, we won't be reforming !!! I must confess I was reluctant to do it .. partly as I don't like nostalgia but it was good to meet up with Paul again .. especially as he's a LOT balder than me :-) ... and it was surprising how the old songs came back .. all sounds promising and we have two more rehearsals before we play which probably doubles the number of rehearsals that we ever did in our whole existence ... Age seems to have caught up a bit though as we did drop a couple of the faster numbers as we can't keep up any more ! I'm sure it will decend into the usual chaos though ... and I'm sure that some of that will surface here !!!

Anyway .. a couple of sneakily taken pics from the rehearsals ... especially like the 'fat Ken' one :)















































Oh .. and I couldn't resist taking this one .. County fans .. get on your knees :-)


OH .. and if you're wondering what the Midgets sound like .. here's three songs that others have covered that we wrote (yeah right )





2 comments:

Bloody Nora said...

Flippin' 'eck Mr Chanting Buddha, I've had to sign up to yet another net account just so I can comment on how very sizeist and follicleist your remarks are (as well as being quite funny...)

Chanting Buddha said...

Tis my revenge for years of abuse and insults about my capacity for laying down a beat, in numerous fanzines by Mr W. in particular .. he actually renamed the band 'Charlie Can't Drum' at one point :-)

Now .. get blogging .. you can actually write things here rather than just throw vampires or whatever :-)