MORE QUESTIONS
1. Okay,…if there is no duality in Buddhism as in other world views, no separation between mind and body or body and environment where everything is codependent stemming from mutual causality, how can the mind or essence continue when the physical ceases to exist?
2. Speaking of the environment, during planet Earth’s 4.5 billion year history, there have been earthquakes, global weather changes, volcanic upheavals and several mass extinctions before the advent and evolution of homo sapiens. So if life and it’s environment are inseparable, what did the life forms in the Ordovician-Silurian, Late Devonian, Permian-Triassic, Triassic-Jurrasic, and Cretaceous-Tetiary time periods do to attract devastation as the following three statements imply will happen to mankind? Are these statements from one enlightened individual and several arrogant bigots, or are they all just people with a common agenda; upholding the doctrines of their belief systems and pointing to the environment as proof of being correct?
The Postscript to On Establishing the Correct
Teaching for the Peace of the Land
I COMPILED the above work in the first year of the Bunno era (1260),
with the cyclical sign kanoe-saru. That is, I began the work during the Shoka era (1257–1259) and completed it in the first year of Bunno.
In the first year of the Shoka era, cyclical sign hinoto-mi, on the twenty- third day of the eighth month, at the time when the hour of the dog gives way to the hour of the boar (around :00 P.M.), there was a severe earthquake. Observing this event, I conceived the work. Later, in the first year of Bunno, cyclical sign kanoe-saru, on the sixteenth day of the seventh month, I presented it to His Lordship, the lay priest of Saimyo-ji,1 who is now deceased, by way of the lay priest Yadoya.2 Still later, in the first year of the Bun’ei era (1264), cyclical sign kinoe-ne, on the fifth day of the seventh month, when a great comet appeared, I became even more certain of the origins of these disasters. Then, on the eighteenth day of the intercalary first month of the fifth year of Bun’ei, cyclical sign tsuchinoe-tatsu, nine years after the first year of Bunno [when I submitted On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land ], an official letter came from the great kingdom of the Mongols that lies to the west, threatening to attack our country. Again, in the sixth year of the same era (1269), a second letter arrived. Thus the prediction that I made in my memorial [On Establishing the Correct Teaching] has already proved to be true. In view of this, we may suppose that the predictions I made will continue to come true in the future as well.
This work of mine has now been substantiated by fact. But this is not solely due to Nichiren’s power. Rather it has come about as a response to the true words of the Lotus Sutra.
I copied this work on the eighth day of the twelfth month in the sixth year of Bun’ei (1269), cyclical sign tsuchinoto-mi.
Nichiren
“I would warn Orlando that you’re right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don’t think I’d be waving those flags in God’s face if I were you, This is not a message of hate — this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It’ll bring about terrorist bombs; it’ll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.”
–Pat Robertson, on “gay days” at Disneyworld
Pat Robertson says Haiti paying for ‘pact to the devil’ - CNN.com
Hurricane Katrina: Wrath of God?
Reverend Franklin Graham, son of Reverend Billy
Graham, suggests the city was targeted because of the
city’s sinful reputation. At a speech in Virginia, he said,
“This is one wicked city, OK? It’s known for Mardi Gras,
for Satan worship. It’s known for sex perversion. It’s
known for every type of drugs and alcohol and the orgies
and all of these things that go on down there in New
Orleans. Reverend Graham continued, “There’s been a
black spiritual cloud over New Orleans for years. They
believe God is going to use that storm to bring revival.
“AIDS is not just God’s punishment for homosexuals;
it is God’s punishment for the society that tolerates
homosexuals”
Jerry Falwell
