On April 28 in the fifth year of Kencho (1253) at Asagigamori Kominato in Chiba prefecture with the sun rising from the across the Pacific Ocean Nichiren Daishonin chanted the Daimoku for the first time. Picture this, Nichiren Daishonin, relieving all mankind of its suffering.
When we chant the prolonged daimoku, it is based on Nichiren Daishonin's daimoku which he chanted at that very time. That time was called Risshu Sengen and Nichiren Daishonin brought relief to the entire threefold world, and **Buddhahood, which he anticipated in his heart.** As we think of the profound spirit of the daimoku he chanted with such great conviction there can be no doubt that it penetrated deeply into the lives of all mankind of the world and the universe. Therefore, when we chant the daimoku in our daily Gongyo, we have to keep in mind that utterly momentous daimoku chanted by Nichiren Daishonin on that day of Risshu Sengen. When you do prolonged daimoku please keep this deep significance in mind.
Prolonged daimoku [Nam Mu Myoho Renge Kyo] is not an abbreviation of chanting a lot of daimoku. It carries the intent of jogyo keta which means to practice for ourselves and for others. Secondly, it will spread great mercy for all living beings in Mappo for ten thousand years and more. Thirdly, it relieves the suffering of all the beings in the universe. So, again, please keep in mind the great significance of the prolonged daimoku.
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]]>"You and others like you still listen to The Dharma with the conditioned mind,
and so the Dharma becomes conditioned as well,
and you do not obtain the Dharma-nature.
This is similar to a person pointing his finger at the moon to show it to someone else.
Guided by the finger, the other person should see the moon.
If he looks at the finger instead and mistakes it for the moon,
he loses not only the moon but the finger also.
Why? Because he mistakes the pointing finger for the bright moon.
Not only does he lose the finger, but he also fails to recognize light and darkness.
Why? He mistakes the solid matter of the finger for the bright nature of the moon,
and so he does not understand the two natures of light and darkness.
The same is true of you. (Shurangama Sutra).
Nichiren Sects are listening to the Lotus Sutra with a conditioned mind And do not obtain the joy or essence contained inside the Sutra because they are Not looking there. What are they looking at? Nichiren did not follow the human Shakyamuni, He followed the Eternal Buddha Shakyamuni, and identified him as a real person. The Human Buddha can be found in the first fourteen chapters. The Eternal Buddha appears at the Ceremony in the Air.Nichiren pointed everyone towards the Lotus Sutra, but everyone looked at Nichiren.All the sects looked at Nichiren and only gave lip service to the Lotus Sutra.After Nichiren’s death, everyone started to look at those pointing at Nichiren.When the Soka Gakkai came along, they said look at me, we will save you, Sometimes they even forgot to point.Now there are so many fingers pointing in so many directions you need a GLS system in fear of getting lost.Still everyone is looking at the fingers and everyone is getting lost, and the fingers are blocking the sun.Everyone is mistaking the fingers for the Lotus Sutra, the Eternal Buddha and his Original Disciples. My thesis and open to discussion is that Nichiren Buddhism is not a Religion,There are only people who believe it is.If everyone left all the Nichiren Religions, there would be no more Nichiren Religions. Back to the Ceremony in the Air, being a bodhisattva of he Earth
Maltz
]]>FASCISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and sells you some milk.
NAZISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both and shoots you.
BUREAUCRATISM
You have 2 cows.
The State takes both, shoots one, milks the other, and then throws the milk away...
TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell one and buy a bull.
Your herd multiplies, and the economy grows.
You sell them and retire on the income.
SURREALISM
You have two giraffes.
The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
AN AMERICAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You sell one, and force the other to produce the milk of four cows.
Later, you hire a consultant to analyse why the cow has dropped dead.
ENRON VENTURE CAPITALISM
You have two cows.
You sell three of them to your publicly listed company, using letters of credit opened by your brother-in-law at the bank, then execute a debt/equity swap with an associated general offer so that you get all four cows back, with a tax exemption for five cows.
The milk rights of the six cows are transferred via an intermediary to a Cayman Island Company secretly owned by the majority shareholder who sells the rights to all seven cows back to your listed company.
The annual report says the company owns eight cows, with an option on one more.
You sell one cow to buy a new president of the United States, leaving you with nine cows.
No balance sheet provided with the release.
The public then buys your bull.
A FRENCH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You go on strike, organise a riot, and block the roads, because you want three cows.
A JAPANESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You redesign them so they are one-tenth the size of an ordinary cow and produce twenty times the milk.
You then create a clever cow cartoon image called 'Cowkimon' and market it worldwide.
A GERMAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You then re-engineer them so they live for 100 years, eat once a month, and milk themselves.
AN ITALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows, but you don't know where they are.
You decide to have lunch.
A RUSSIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You count them and learn you have five cows.
You count them again and learn you have 42 cows.
You count them again and learn you have 2 cows.
You stop counting cows and open another bottle of vodka.
A SWISS CORPORATION
You have 5000 cows. None of them belong to you.
You charge the owners for storing them.
A CHINESE CORPORATION
You have two cows.
You have 300 people milking them.
You claim that you have full employment, and high bovine productivity.
You arrest the newsman who reported the real situation.
A BRITISH CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Both are mad.
AN IRAQI CORPORATION
Everyone thinks you have lots of cows.
You tell them that you have none.
No-one believes you, so they bomb the **** out of you and invade your country.
You still have no cows, but at least now you are part of a Democracy....
AN AUSTRALIAN CORPORATION
You have two cows.
Business seems pretty good.
You close the office and go for a few beers to celebrate.
A young man, distraught over his uncle's death, went to the Buddha, believing that the Buddha's teaching was a newer, greater form of religion, and asked him for a ritual which would release his uncle's soul. The Buddha told him to obtain two of the ritual urns from the priests, and fill one with butter and and one with stones.
The young man, believing he was about to get a more powerful ritual, was very happy and did as the Buddha said. When he returned, the Buddha told him to place the urns carefully in the river, so that the rim of the urn was just below the surface. Then he instructed him to recite the usual prayer of the priests, and strike both urns under the water with the hammer, at the usual point in the prayer, then come back and describe what happened.
The young man, very excited to be the first person to be given this wonderful new ritual, more effective than the old, did exactly as he was told. On his return, the Buddha asked him to describe what he saw. The young man replied "I saw nothing unusual. When I smashed the urns, the stones sank to the bottom of the river and the butter was washed away on the surface of the river."
The Buddha said "Then you must ask your priests to pray that the butter will sink and the stones will float to the surface!" The young man, shocked by the obvious ridiculousness of this request said "But no matter how much the priests pray, the stones will never float and the butter will not sink."
The Buddha replied, "Exactly so. And, it is the same with your uncle. Whatever good, loving actions he has done during his life will make him rise towards heaven, and whatever bad, selfish actions he has done will make him sink towards hell. And there is not a thing that all the prayers and rituals of the priests can do to alter even a tiny part of the results of his actions!"
All the prayers from all the sects and religions can't do anything for you.
Maltz
]]>The warm reception to my posting here is overwhelming. People are afraid to post here, they do want to be cast away as junk or have web pages put up about them, as the SGI did to me, or have people hate them and send box loads of letters to Nichiren Shu in Japan. The more one realizes they are a Bodhisattva from the Earth; this fear takes care of itself.
Buddhism is not for fools. Enlightenment is to understand consistently what seems to be a contradiction at a glance to us naive being. Buddhism teaches us that it is A at one time, but another time it teaches it is B. Both A and B are the true aspects of the truth, but People tend to think A and B are not friendly because of their custom monotonous philosophy.
I am not religious, Buddhism is not a religion. There is no such thing as religion in the world, only people who think there is religion. There are people who want you to believe there is religion, and they are a Priests and they want Power over You. It’s all bullshit. None of it is true.
The Lotus Sutra expects us to grow up toward the third dimension and I don’t care what sect you are in, when you die no one is going to ask you, “HEY YOU, STOP, what sect were you in?” But don’t start inventing Human Practices and saying Buddha said this and that. The Bodhisattvas of the Earth are here to spread the Lotus Sutra, remind people they were there, and stop people who are trying to cover the sutra and give you their Human ideas and practice Haibutsu Kishaku.
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MALTZ TRYING TO OPEN MORE EYES
]]>".. good man! I take all things as non-eternal. How do I know? Because of the causal relations. If anything arises out of causality, I see them as non-eternal. The Buddha Nature is birthlessness and deathlessness; it is no going, no coming. It is no past, no future, and no present. It is not one that comes out of cause; it is no making of no cause. It is not one made; it is no maker. It is no outer form or not no form; it is not one with a name, nor is it one with no name; it is no name and no matter. It is not long, not short. It is not one come out in five groups, eighteen realms, and twelve spheres. Because of this, we say eternal. The Buddha Nature is the Tathagata; the Tathagata is the Law, and the Law is eternal. Eternal is the Tathagata, the Tathagata are the Bodhisattvas and the Bodhisattvas are eternal.
Because of this, what comes out of cause is not called eternal."
(Nirvana Sutra, Book 13, chapt. 19c,)
Many people feel that the Human Buddha Sakyamuni is a teacher of human life, he devoted his whole life to lead innumerable people, according to their intellectual standard, character and circumstance on the path of the truth. All of Sakyamuni’s guidance to his followers originated in the truth of the Universe in which he attained enlightenment. Nevertheless, Sakyamuni showed his Buddhahood practically for the mass of people in various ways.
“The various sûtras of [the first] forty‑two years set forth matters of good and evil occurring in the dream of birth and death; therefore, they are called provisional teachings. They are the scriptural teachings of preparatory, expedient means, by which the Buddha sought to entice and lead the dreaming beings, in order to startle and rouse them into the waking reality of the Lotûs Sûtra. Therefore, they are called provisional teachings (Sanze Shobutsu Sokanmon Kyoso Hairyu written by Nichiren Daishonin)
Therefore, the Tathagata entered our dream of birth and death, placing himself on the same level as the perverted beings, and by means of the Language used in dreams enticed the dreaming beings, leading them gradually by expounding matters concerning the distinction between the good and evil that occur in dreams. (Sanze Shobutsu Sokanmon Kyoso Hairyu)
Lets look at the attitude Shakyamuni had while preaching the law. He did not perform His preaching and guiding as a formal ceremony, but always regarded everyday life as a place for preaching and enlightening. Sakyamuni never lost an opportunity to preach the way of life at any time or to any person.
In Chapter five of the Lotus Sutra, “Parable of the Herbs”, Sakyamuni gives the general vows of the Buddha: “Those who have not yet been saved I cause them to be saved; those who have not yet been set free to be set free; those who have not yet been comforted to be comforted; those who have not yet obtained nirvana to obtain nirvana.”
With those vows, Buddha could not but give a helping hand to anyone who was living in the world of suffering. If he saw that people were overcome by illusions, he could not help himself from freeing them on the spot. Sakyamuni could not stop but teach instantly the way of reaching a stage of peace to those who had not known that peace.
Nowadays, many men of religion try to preach the truth only at formal places like Temples, or on formal occasions like sermon meetings, or guided meditation sessions. They are not even sure if they are preaching the truth. I have many friends that are priests, I dearly treasure them as great human beings and personal treasures. They are not my priests. They have helped me in time of need, and shown great human attributes they don't reveal when wearing the priest hat. Honestly, rather than make sense of the matter, I accept them as wonderful people that are assets to my life. Then on the other hand, I have known some real stinker-oooos, than have gone out of their way to make life miserable. Again, I just think they are idiots, and go on.
I have been very lucky, to have known so may people, that I can have a balanced and fair view. Some lay people even feel the need to become a priest so that they think they will only then have the power to save others. Does this make any sense? I think they feel, they are impotent, and they need the robe or people will not listen to them. There is a translator for the Kempon Hokke, that I always had admiration for, he always produced top top notch first rate material for people that wanted to study Nichiren's ways, yet never asked to have special titles. That is a great person. Another man for the Nichiren Shu, because of jealousy sought the priest robe to gain what he felt more power over people, and when I was in Japan, I learned this was a way he wanted to have more power of me, and it is so stupid, I don't even care. His views are so off, that I just have pity for anyone that listens, they are sweet talked into human fields of pain of regret of confusion, and he mixes up all the different practices and hates Nichiren, and only wants Buddha to be Jesus or God.
I think that if we look back at the life of Sakyamuni we can see that how mistaken this preaching of professional religionists is. Did Sakyamuni become a Priest? Did he tell people to become a priest? Did Nichiren have to be a priest, or could he have been a Sushi Chef? It is the inability of the current brainwashed members to think out of the box and want to stay attached to their sect, just like a dysfunctional family that keeps the ball bouncing. But someday it will stop.
Those that have read the Nirvana Sutra have read:
“This teaching shall not be entrusted to biksus (monks) and biksunis (nuns), but to upasakas (laymen) and upasikas (laywomen).”
I think we really know why Sakyamuni entrusted his teachings to layman and laywomen, one important reason could be that lay believers have many opportunities of doing their propagating to enlighten the masses in everyday life. The job of the Bodhisattvas, is to remind other Bodhisattvas they were at the Ceremony in Space, it is not to bring them to a PRIEST or NEW TEACHER.
Unless we can lead as many people as possible to the teachings of Buddha, by making use of every opportunity to do so, we cannot rapidly change or bring the world to a state of peace.
If you bring someone to a sect, a meeting, a Priest, a new Teacher, give them HUMAN TEACHINGS, teach them Nichiren is the Buddha, Ikeda is the master, you are really are Creep.
Maltz
"Two monks, brothers, brahmans by birth, of fine language and fine speech, came to the Buddha and said Lord, here monks of miscellaneous origin are corrupting the Buddha's words by repeating them in their own dialects, let us put them into Vedic. The Lord Buddha rebuked them: “Deluded men, how can you say this? This will not lead to the conversion of the unconverted And he delivered a sermon and commanded the monks You are not to put the Buddha's words into Vedic Who does so would commit a sin I authorize you, monks, to learn the Buddha's words each in his own dialect " Cullavagga V.33; Vinaya Pitaka II. 139. 1ff.
BAGHDAD - The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September.
One soldier died when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. The other died of wounds sustained when he was attacked by small-arms fire, the military said Wednesday. Both incidents occurred Tuesday in northwestern Baghdad.
A third soldier died in a roadside bombing Tuesday night in the east of the capital, the military said.
The statement did not give a more specific location. But the eastern half of Baghdad includes embattled Sadr City and other neighborhoods that have been the focus of intense combat between Shiite militants and U.S.-Iraqi troops for more than a month.
4,059 since 2003
In all, at least 4,059 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
The latest fighting erupted at the end of March after Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki launched a crackdown against Shiite militias in the southern port city of Basra. But it quickly spread to Baghdad’s Sadr City, a sprawling slum with about 2.5 million people that is a stronghold of the Mahdi Army militia of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
The militiamen have used the district as a base to fire barrages of missiles and mortar rounds at the U.S.-protected Green Zone which houses much of the Iraqi government and Western diplomatic missions, including the U.S. and British embassies.
They also have fought running street battles in which hundreds have died. The U.S. military says those killed have been mainly gunmen. But police and medical authorities in Sadr City say innocent civilians have frequently gotten caught up in the fighting.
Such street battles — in tight confines and amid frightened civilians — are increasingly becoming a hallmark of the drive into Sadr City and recall the type of head-on clashes last seen in large numbers during last year’s U.S. troop buildup in Baghdad and surrounding areas.
Girls' school destroyed
The Sadr City violence continued overnight with the destruction of a school in the district. AP Television News footage showed that parts of the two-floor Baghdad Girls’ School had pancaked as the result of an explosion. Desks were hanging down from the slanting classrooms where the outer walls were blown out by the blast.
Local officials said the school was the target of an airstrike on Tuesday evening.
An official at the local hospital, who asked not to be named because he was not authorized to release the information, said two people were killed and 16 wounded overnight in Sadr City. He said this brought the death toll in the district since Tuesday to 31, with 107 wounded.
The U.S. military had no comment about the school but said an Abrams tank fired at gunmen shooting at U.S. troops in Sadr City, killing all three. In another part of Sadr City, an unmanned drone fired a missile at a group of men planting a roadside bomb and killed one, the military said.
In another development, the office of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Shiite Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, said he received a telephone call from President Bush on Tuesday afternoon.
The SIIC is one of the main members of al-Maliki’s U.S.-supported government and a rival of al-Sadr’s movement.
An SIIC statement said that two exchanged views about the current situation in Iraq. There was no immediate comment from the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
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