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.

The BIG catch Up

Jeeeze .. it's really been a while since I posted here .. well properly anyway !! Nearly 6 weeks .. so a little re-cap to catch up ...

CRICKET
Bit ofa usual 'summer' thing here .. actually got a bit of decent weather for a few games and saw some good cricket. Unfortunately, with the 20/20, most of the cricket I like, gets squeezed in the start and end of the season when it's wetter !!

FOOD
Had a bit of a pani as the Mayfir seemed closed when I went past on the bus, but turned out Mike was away for a week so had a bit of a Mayfair break ... didn't last long though .. and had some great food (as always) although too much wine (and a visit to the poacher afterwards) meant I couldn't remember too much about it.

Also managed to visita couple of other places; The Memsaab which Ild been to about 10 year ago andwhile ok, thought was heavily over rated. This time, I ordered the fish curry ...quite frankly, thought it wa pretty horrible .. and expensive .. that said, several others had different curries and enjoyed but I didn't enjoy teh place either really and won't be heading back in a hurry.

On a positive note, I did go to a new Tapas bar in Nottingham called 'Iberico' ( http://www.ibericotapas.com/ ) which isn't very heavily advertised but is excellent. It's a bit on the pricey side but compared to the rubbish that La Tasca serves, is well worth a visit. The food comes reasonably quickly and is nicely presented if a little pretetntious ... Also pretentious is that the waiters tell you how things should be eaten which actually is quite comical when it comes from an East European waitress .. 'please to eat the gooseberries after the fish please' :). But I would definitely go there again.


BUDDHISM
Nothing too much to report here .. been going to West Bridgford Meetings which I've enjoyed .. also been doing a little 'home visiting' after years of getting over the phobia .. actualy it's quite easy once I stopped calling them 'home visits' and just said I was going to chant with someone !

Had a couple of excellent Study lectures .. one from Michelle Lamb and one from Jason Jarrett ho does the Buddhist podcasts. In fact if you go to http://abuddhistpodcast.com/ you can hear the Studio Version of the study he gave in Nottingham.

Currently managing to do around an hour each day so all pretty good there at the moment.

And I think that's about it ..... Just a couple of vids ... the Buddhist One again just so I don't lose it and a Greek TV one .. sweeeeeet ;)



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2 comments:

Sibri said...

Gosh Charlie, did you write this after a Mayfair night by any chance??? LOL

10:43 pm
Chanting Buddha said...

Nope .. just a guilty Wednesday afternoon when I noticed how long it had been lol

8:29 am

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