I am the Dragon King – Part Two

I am the Dragon King – Part Two In actual fact, the reason for my theme change and it’s reversion to the Dragon one is due to some inspirational hits on the website (the hits all targetted this post, Never Seek this Gohonzon Outside Yourself), where people have been looking for the phrase; “Hell is [...]

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The 26 Admonitions explained by Richard Causton

Introduction I’ve nabbed the content of this from Ted Penfold.  My wife, has told me that she heard this lecture of Dick’s and found it and him some of the most inspiring things in her life.  I came across this wonderful piece by chance, looking for some background information on Nikko, the second guy after [...]

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Never Seek the Gohonzon Outside Yourself

At a discussion meeting this evening we discussed the subject; How has our practice influenced our view of the future. I thought about this and determined that my vision is extremely optimistic now as compared to previously in my life.  I connected two passages from the very beginning and near end of the Gosho that [...]

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Never seek this Gohonzon outside yourself

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 [...]

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Somerset HQ Weekend Course

Had a fantastic 2-3 days in Taplow Court at the UK SGI headquarters so thanks to all who organised it, turned up or gave daimoku. We had much to inspire us. Somehow we seemed to get loads of heavyweight dudes to give us lectures of the highest calibre. I now have got a (loan) Gohonzon [...]

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Buddhism

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 [...]

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Shite (as a response to shite, I started Crawling Chaos)

2007 Start: I’ve set this down as I’m getting really pissed off with all the shite on the web about us and spurious claims to authorship of Crawling Chaos creative work so have determined to get a proper site on-line as a proper repository for works, history and truth and with the ultimate aim of [...]

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