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Free Kareem Amer I’ve just added a neat plugin to this website by the noted author, Michael Torbert.  His plugins probably have more usage than any others on the world! It’s a “Free Kareem” plugin, devoted to furthering the cause of er … freeing Kareem Amer who’s been incarcerated and tortured for two years in [...]

Answer: Very Thick The actions of a bunch of young Nazis leave no doubt in my mind that the sentences they received for their violent actions should have been levelled against their deranged feeble-mindedness and not their violent excess of hatred. How else could you describe someone who emigrated to Israel, then sets up a [...]

Never seek this Gohonzon outside yourself – Nichiren Daishonin, “The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon”, WNDI, page 832 What the Daishonin means is that when chanting, we seek to make inner change.  We are not praying or chanting to an idol or an ethereal being to make our lives better or forgive us for past [...]

Today’s little mention on this news item here on The BBC News website about the auction house sale of a key that unlocks the door to the Kaaba, shows, at the beginning and end of the article, the true meaning of religion – certainly in the ones stemming from “Abraham”. It’s states it’s the “12th [...]

Excellent study this evening given by Howard and Alex. There was a lot from Nichiren, The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life , which was good as they were saying exactly the same stuff as I did when I spent a day getting my Buddhism Page out and to make sense to me. Plus [...]

What’s all this Buddhism then, like? Intro I practice the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin who was a guy living in 13th century Japan. He is what most people nowadays would call a “good guy” although at the time, because he spoke his mind which then annoyed the ruling classes, he spent most of his life [...]