Sansho Shima
(from UKE August 1989 by Paul Reeves and Rebecca Irvine)


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I have been struggling with keeping the cycle of regular gongyo and daimoku. I need your encouragement. Please think of your best encouragement to get me back in the groove. I need your help!!! Share with me your experiences! I am hoping to get back into the groove soon enough that all this summer is gongyo summer!

ON THE TREASURE TOWER (a letter by the Daishonin ( Read more... )

After you have taken the quiz (see last entry), you will know how you learn best and understand the world. I will take each of these learning modalities and show you how your special abilities can make your Gohonzon really pop out for you. Over this next month, you will find that there are multiple ways of understanding the Gohonzon. Keep ( Read more... )

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Thank you for being patient, dedicated readers.  I am working on a series of articles that will explore in depth the meaning of the Gohonzon.  After all, if it is out object of devotion, we should at least understand it as well as we can, right?  You will be excited to learn that there are infinte depths of meaning behind every stroke of the ( Read more... )

Kosen-rufu
A term from the Lotus Sutra that literally means to declare and spread widely. The "Medicine King" (twenty-third) chapter of the Lotus Sutra reads, "After I [Shakyamuni Buddha] have passed into extinction, in the last five-hundred-year period you must spread it abroad widely (kosen-rufu) throughout Jambudvipa and never allow it to be ( Read more... )