THESE ARE THE 10 'PURPOSE AND PRINCIPLES" OF MY NDB PRACTICE...1. We shall contribute to peace, culture and

Thanks Mom

Thanks for allowing others to learn more interesting insights of your practices.
It's always good to be a student and learn. Others who teach find gratifying ways to educate those willing to just take in the knowledge.

I remember Tina Turner shared the meaning of the Buddhist chant in her biography...

Mom, what is the significance of the Buddhist candles? Do they also have any meaning?

Beautiful...

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If you like any more info...please go to WWW. Sgi-Usa. org....or you can ask me and if I can answer you "I" will be glad to try and help answer your questions as best I can. (smile)

and, righ toff the bat...N-O, NO, NO "I" DO NOT WORSHIP A BUDDHIST GOD...BECAUSE ALL THAT I AM IS WITHIN ME TO BE THE BEST PERSON I CAN BE...LOL (SMILE)

I do believe our # 7 is tied with #2 for the greatest reasons to fear, hate, denounce NDB...we will never even try to find any excuses to violate these in any way, form or fashion. We hold our individual selves DIRECTLY responsiable fo rour own causes and effects on our enviornment and life.(smile)

Thank you all for stopping by. Some in my practice call is a religion and president Kennedy did deem it a legal religion in America.Many religions don't see us all as Equal and that A-L-L religions because they are made up of human beings must be respected,because A-L-L human beings are do respect, ect.So "I" persoanlly stry away form the use of the word religion...and, I hope you can better be able to understand when I say if you god does not expect me to discriminate against any one then your god is my god also...someting hard to comprehind I am sure...lol (smile)

I will post more about us as tiem goes by. again thanks so much. (smile)

Woud any one oke to do the chant that we do?
we chant Nam-mohyo-renge-kyo...
Nam: means devotion....mo: life hyo; death renge; cause and effect...kyo: the sounds of the universe....

This is what we say over and over three times in a row for as long as one likes to do it...

I am shame to admit my longest without stoping has been all most 3 hours. It is not too bad if doing it with some one else. I am not discliplined much. lol we have a formal meeting at a center in Sacramento. We mostly meet in the homes of members for different kinds of meating. they are always fun and lots of snacks and loads of food on special days. Orientals feed you like people in the south feed you. Every where you look there is more and more food,lol

WE say a junty pryer in sanskirt. then we do a study lesson then sociolize with tea soda, icecreal sods as we jus ketch up on the latest samall talk, it is alwas timed out like 1 1/2 hour,

Yes T.T and I am of the same Buddhist religion...that is how shewas able to take her life back from Ike. the candles represent light, one is teh sun the other is the moon. we burn incsents wich represients teh air...we have green with is ever grren which represents life...it te motning prayeer we put water on teh alter and in teh evening prayer we put on the alter food...all things related to life, nature. The chant I have put up before and will do now...we chant as we pray and our praying is no different than any for of prayer except we pray for courage to make our prayers come true...only we taht person can answwer our prayer if we go into action not depend on any thing out side of us to do womething for us we are not willing to do for self. (smile)

Oh th echanting is sound that connects with otheres chanting at the same time some place some where...everything is connected in some way therefore the unity / blalnce to all things that exist as a form of balance...

NAM: devotion- By devoting our lifes to this law through our faith, practice and study, we will awaken the life-condition of Buddha, or enlightebment, inside ourselves.

MYOHO : Mystic Law. ...MYO is simply the mysterious nature of our life from moment to moment.Life is indeed an elusive reality that trancends both the words and concepts of existance and nonexistance, yet exhibits the qualities of both.
A. Myo is the name given to the mustic nature of life, and
B. Ho to its manifestations.

RENGE : Literally, the "Lotus flower", which seeds and blooms at the same time.The representation of 'cause' and 'effect'. We creat causes by words and actions. With each cause made, an effect is regristered simultaneously in the depths of life, and those effects are manifested when we meet the right environmental circumstances....

Life itself is an endless series of causes and simultaneous effects.

KYO: sounds or teachings. This is how the Buddha taught througn the spoken word which is heard.

# special notes...The original Buddha was a man, a human being...all human being should be treated with respect and equality...(smile)

You are beautiful my almost perfect daughter. lol (smile)

(I must think a little on my chosen Black leader...we will talk. "K" lov ya. (smile))