Nichiren Buddhism

[Mystic]

I am practice Nichiren Buddhism. I am very curious to know if anyone knows about this practice. As of all the discussion threads I have seen...I don't see any mention of it.
i Would love to know if anyone knows about it.

if anyone would like to know please let me know.

Thank you


Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

[scameter]

I would like to know, but I'll look it up on wikipedia too. B)

[Mystic]

Hi There
Thank you for the interest.

What I really like about this practice besides its philosophy is that we have people from so many different cultures and countires. Its like many in body but one in mind.

As part of our practice we chant "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo".
Nam - to devote one's life
Myo - the nature of enlightenment,
ho - darkness or delusion.
(Myoho - the Mystic Law, indicates the oneness of delusion and enlightenment.)
Renge - expresses the two principles of cause and effect. It also indicates the oneness of cause and effect.
Kyo - means the words, speech, sounds and voices of all living beings.á Kyo also signifies that life spans the three existences of past, present and future.

All things are myoho, all things are renge, and all things are kyo"

In this practice we donot seek outside but within. Our main prayer is Kosen-rufu which if directly translated means world peace. But it also a more deeper meaning. Its also about finding peace within. If within is at peace and happy, thats what it will spread outside.

Earthly desires are important to enlightenment as the process to get them stimultes positive growth.

The main goal is that everyone should be genuinely happy just not on the surface.

If you want more information you can go to:
http://sgi-usa.org/buddhism/index.html

Thank you
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

[scameter]

:) Well, to be honest, to me it seems to have many of the traditional Buddhist concepts, such as enlightenment (however I'm not sure if it has things such as karma, but I assume it would), but it seems like a more ethical form of it, and with good ethics at that.

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Mystic,

Thank you for that summary of your practice. I'm still new--and always will be ;) --to Buddhism and it's various forms, so it is great to learn from one who actually practices one form or another. Truly helps round out my own practice and my understanding. Many thanks, and a lotus to you friend.

[Mystic]

Thank you Soldier for Truth .
Thats one of the guidance we get is to practice with a fresh and determined mind.:)

[Mystic]

Dear Scameter
Thank you for your reply.
Karma is a very integral part of our practice.
We like all buddhists believe in continuity of life, no begging and end.
But we donot have a fatalistic atttitude towards it. We believe that we cannot change our past but we definatly can change our future by the cause we create now.

Following is more detail explanation from our website:
Buddhism, however, teaches the eternity of life; that we have lived countless lives already. This means that we are not born as blank pages, but pages on which countless impressions have already been made. According to Buddhism, life is forever existing in the cosmos; sometimes it is manifest and sometimes latent. Just as when we sleep and then awaken; our conscious mind awakens and our body feels refreshed. Between the sleeping and awakening, our consciousness carries on in a sub-conscious state. Similarly one's life continues eternally in alternating states of life and death. Death is as much a part of living as sleep is part of the process of living.

Unlike some other philosophies though, Buddhism does not consider one's karma or destiny to be fixed; since our minds change from moment to moment, even the habitual and destructive tendencies we all possess to varying degrees can be altered. In other words, Buddhism teaches that individuals have within themselves the potential to change their own karma.

All that we do in one lifetime affects the negative and positive balance of our karma. For example, if we are born poor in this lifetime and spend our life giving to others whatever we can give, we are making causes to change the negative karma of being poor. On the other hand, if we spend our life envying or hating or even stealing from others, we are adding to our negative balance of karma.

Buddhism teaches we have all amassed karma throughout countless lives and that we not only experience the effects of this karma now, but we continue to recreate it. However, the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin teaches that there is an area of our life that is more profound than our karma - our Buddhahood or Buddha nature. The purpose of our Buddhist practice is to reveal this area and to allow its pure life force to purify our lives and change our karma at the deepest level.

As SGI President Daisaku Ikeda explains: "It is the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin that enables the pure life force of the Buddha state, which has existed within us since time without beginning, to well forth in unceasing currents. It changes all the tragic causes and effects that lie between and unveils the pure causes and effects which exist from the beginningless past towards the present and the future. This is liberation from the heavy shackles of destiny we have carried from the past. This is the establishment of free individuals in the truest sense of the term."



Hope this gives a more clearer picture:)

[scameter]

It does. Thank you. :)

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@ Mystic-
Could you please provide your website?

[Mystic]

Our website for USA is :
http://www.sgi-usa.org/

Thank you

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Ah, no. Thanks goes you. :D