Strangely Perfect

I woke up this morning ……and read two small passages, both written by Buddhists, one of which quotes one of “The Buddha’s” last works, the Lotus Sutra. What struck me, was that sometimes, this Buddhism that I do can get a bit confusing, and then suddenly – suddenly someone says something that brings everything right [...]

As part of my Buddhist practice I recite two bits of prose and chant some Daimoku, which is the words “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo” over and over again. I recite these two bits of prose, called the “Expedient Means” chapter and the “Life Span” chapter because Jill, the person who introduced me did so. Jillian [...]

Who said what? Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. What then does myo signify? It is simply the mysterious nature of our life [...]

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 [...]

Reaper asked me to update it today (again – I’ve only just done it!). As part of the process, I thought I’d check the emu site to see if there was anything new on that front. There is!!! There is a new PatchMix DSP application and some new drivers and firmware for the EMU box. [...]

I learnt a lot on a very recent trip up north (where it’s grim) for prezzies, and to see Holly and The Symptoms. Holly updated me with lots of details my piss-poor memory fucked up and has provided me with some shavings of archive Crawling Chaos materiel I can use to further a clear history [...]

I saw Roger Edwards from Purple Ear today. Roger was a major influence when I started this Buddhism lark and was one of the original SGI people in Somerset. We had a very pleasant day following an invigorating Kosen Rufu Gongyo in Taunton, today being November 18th and 77 years since the Soka Gakkai was [...]

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 [...]

Hiya again Paul I’m looking at this kind of this for some hardware inputting. They seem clean enough sound-wise and robust enough physically. They come with quite a few (cut-down) pieces of software. What do you think? What’s the pros and cons of doing it this way that you’ve heard? And I don’t want the [...]