I just got an email from Yoda (VegasBuddha)
I just got an email from Yoda (VegasBuddha)
This is to all of us, even though the salutation is to PDT (I called Pat and clarified that point personally):
PTD,
As in all things, they are no more than transient, nothing is eternal except
our happiness and the causes and effects we each make throughout our
existence.
So may shared with me, exactly what I needed for my own success. I offer
in turn, what I understand my life to be. I hope each of you feel the trade
was as fair as I do. I have found success in my efforts, due in totality to
each and every one of you. I thank-you! I hope each and every one of you
can experience the same success in all you do. In parting I would like to
share my most important thoughts that lead to my understanding of my
practice of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism.
Single-mindedness
Lotus Sutra - "Single-mindedly desiring to see the Buddha, not hesitating,
even if it costs them their lives" (LS 16-230)
In response the Buddha appears! (WND p.389)
Single-mindedly (WND p.389-390)
- Observing the Buddha.
- Concentrating one's mind on seeing the Buddha.
- When looking at one's mind perceiving that it is the Buddha.
An ordinary mind becomes the mind of the Buddha, with either selfless
devotion or a seeking spirit. Daisaku Ikeda, Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra V.4
(p.286)
"The heart is what really matters. One simply cannot understand Buddhism
without a pure and seeking spirit, stemming from the depth's of one's heart.
When we practice with the awareness that we might only encounter the
Gohonzon once in a hundred, million, or ten billion years, a profound sense
of appreciation fills our heart each time we perform gongyo." Daisaku Ikeda,
Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra V.4 (p.286)
Thank-you!
I just got an email from Yoda (VegasBuddha)
This is to all of us, even though the salutation is to PDT (I called Pat and clarified that point personally):
PTD,
As in all things, they are no more than transient, nothing is eternal except
our happiness and the causes and effects we each make throughout our
existence.
So may shared with me, exactly what I needed for my own success. I offer
in turn, what I understand my life to be. I hope each of you feel the trade
was as fair as I do. I have found success in my efforts, due in totality to
each and every one of you. I thank-you! I hope each and every one of you
can experience the same success in all you do. In parting I would like to
share my most important thoughts that lead to my understanding of my
practice of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism.
Single-mindedness
Lotus Sutra - "Single-mindedly desiring to see the Buddha, not hesitating,
even if it costs them their lives" (LS 16-230)
In response the Buddha appears! (WND p.389)
Single-mindedly (WND p.389-390)
- Observing the Buddha.
- Concentrating one's mind on seeing the Buddha.
- When looking at one's mind perceiving that it is the Buddha.
An ordinary mind becomes the mind of the Buddha, with either selfless
devotion or a seeking spirit. Daisaku Ikeda, Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra V.4
(p.286)
"The heart is what really matters. One simply cannot understand Buddhism
without a pure and seeking spirit, stemming from the depth's of one's heart.
When we practice with the awareness that we might only encounter the
Gohonzon once in a hundred, million, or ten billion years, a profound sense
of appreciation fills our heart each time we perform gongyo." Daisaku Ikeda,
Wisdom of the Lotus Sutra V.4 (p.286)
Thank-you!