tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post296937679645052691..comments2024-03-18T06:43:13.479-05:00Comments on Eagle Peak Blog: Many thanks to Noel for his compassionate conversion practiceMark Rogowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05176132114346404556noreply@blogger.comBlogger211125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-82317686955274320042016-08-15T20:11:22.288-05:002016-08-15T20:11:22.288-05:00Please do not beat u on each other. I won't le...Please do not beat u on each other. I won't let Katie beat up on you nor you beat up on her. Of course you were correct to correct Stavros in no uncertain terms and i thank you greatly for your strict, sincere, and compassionate action for the sake of the Law.Mark Rogowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05176132114346404556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-66790103740896402242016-08-15T02:54:12.944-05:002016-08-15T02:54:12.944-05:00Katie's scornful response to me for my respo...Katie's scornful response to me for my response to a long-time friend who's hated Nichiren Buddhism for the entire 15 years that I've known him, and who was pretending to seek clarification of Nichiren's teachings : "You are a MENTAL CASE who clings to Hinayana provisional Mahayana teachings and Vedanta teachings,.."<br /><br />AND: " This is what Nichiren says about the likes of you who are full of hatred towards the Lotus Sutra. The words you have written prove your scornful declaration of Nichiren Buddhism which has sealed your fate according to the scriptures unless you repent <br />Nichiren spoke much about punishment and Hell that will befall those that oppose the Lotus Sutra."<br /><br />Stavros reminds me of of the imbecilely of born again Christian and Muslim religious fundamentalist extremists who think that they are morally and spiritually superior but are under a sickening veil of self righteousness delusion<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />This is what happens to some people like Stavros who are impressionable and when they take provisional teachings so literally where they use the words of their teachers to admonish others. <br /><br /><br /><br />I was angry with Stavros for saying "YOUR BUDDHISM DRAWS ITS KNOWLEDGE FROM MENTAL PLANE A HIGH MENTAL PLANE BUT STILL A MENTAL PLANE WHICH CANNOT ENVISIONS THESE TRUTHS OF TOTAL TRANSFORMATION AND DIVINE PERFECTION ." <br /><br /><br />Because he was using the word Mental, I decided to use it on him. Read it in context. I was incorporating some of my words with Gosho passages written by Nichiren, and adding some on that were in the same thread. If you don't like them you mustn't like Nichiren either and I doubt that you are genuine.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />My post to Savros;<br /><br />You are rebuking Tientai, Dengyo, and Nichiren, and Shakyamuni who preached the Lotus Sutra <br /><br />"ONLY TRUE SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS AND FORCE CAN ACCOMPLISH SUCH A PERMANENT CHANGE BUT THAT REMAINS AN IMPOSSIBILITY FOR YOU BECAUSE YOUR BUDDHISM DRAWS ITS KNOWLEDGE FROM MENTAL PLANE A HIGH MENTAL PLANE BUT STILL A MENTAL PLANE WHICH CANNOT ENVISIONS THESE TRUTHS OF TOTAL TRANSFORMATION AND DIVINE PERFECTION!!"<br /><br />You are a MENTAL CASE who clings to Hinayana provisional Mahayana teachings and Vedanta teachings, even though you have been fortunate enough to encounter the Lotus Sutra, you cannot advance beyond Vedanta, Hinayana or provisional Mahayana views. You are convinced that your views are correct, and even worse you slander the votaries of the Lotus Sutra which will cause you severe karmic retribution according to the scriptures that you twists and slanders to your own demise<br /><br />When it comes to understanding the Lotus Sutra you are no more than an infant who cannot understand the principles of cause and effect like your arrogant Vedanta mentors proud boastful Brahman inch worms of the Vedanta school that you identify with. <br /><br />But although you make your way upward bit by bit like an inchworm, you will fall back from the heaven where there is neither thought nor no thought, and descend instead into the three evil paths. <br /><br />Nor will you succeed in remaining on the level of the heavens, though you believe that once having attained that level you will never descend from it. This is what Nichiren says about the likes of you who are full of hatred towards the Lotus Sutra. The words you have written prove your scornful declaration of Nichiren Buddhism which has sealed your fate according to the scriptures unless you repent <br /><br />The Opening of the Eyes (P. 222) edited versionNoelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13502699520823314375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-73270390862044150122016-06-28T08:33:45.735-05:002016-06-28T08:33:45.735-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Noelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13502699520823314375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-5028494560378956112016-06-28T08:23:43.035-05:002016-06-28T08:23:43.035-05:00Your really getting a Buzzzzz-buzzzzzzzzz-bzzzzzzz...Your really getting a Buzzzzz-buzzzzzzzzz-bzzzzzzzzzzzz~~~~~~~~~~~~ out this aren't you Katie!Noelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13502699520823314375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-40307554111002067092016-06-27T19:19:37.413-05:002016-06-27T19:19:37.413-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Noelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13502699520823314375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-61998099790317807642016-06-27T19:11:47.827-05:002016-06-27T19:11:47.827-05:00stav hatzJune 24, 2016 at 8:34 PM
stav hatzJune...stav hatzJune 24, 2016 at 8:34 PM<br /><br /><br /><br />stav hatzJune 24, 2016 at 6:59 PM<br /><br />You are making things up as usual; I feel if you had faith in your chanting and practiced steadily your heart would be more pure and your mind more clear to see, read and understand correctly what has been said here. Where did I said or Katie by the way that there is individual extinction or that is what we are after on the contrary we both agree on that for on going perfection and continuation of individuality, you are twisting things; if you wish to be right then speak the truth; also I have send you and placed on this Blog the different options that are open for the individuals at certain stage of maturity, I spoke the truth as it is described in the scriptures the different attainments by different individuals and that too I told you is not fixed but further progress is possible, individual life is a dynamic field of infinite possibilities and no recycle or retrogression as you Mr Noel keep saying and insisting on fall, degradation, weakness and all that.<br />This is a part of what I have send you before: "the liberated reaching a stage of maturity several option are open to it depends of its line of progress and realization different possibilities presenting themselves at the same time for developed souls such as, - merger back, lingering for eternity enjoying the difference of unity, returning as a Master who can help, engaging with creation as a realized being, participating in the new adventure of transformation into eternity without individual end etc etc. "<br />And for your information as I said many times before the path which I follow is the last of eternal individual progression.<br /><br />As I said earlier you are not really conscious of what you are saying or what you sending or reading, and that shows your lack of practice and lack of steady practice of chanting; no matter what you say it is clear; and having mixed up mind you are presenting your Buddhism in a Psychotic way just like your mind appears and you presenting Buddhas and Bodhisattvas like psychopaths who built with one hand and destroy what they built with the other, who teach to enlighten others and then create falsity and ignorance to delude others; would a sane person do that? <br />Everything has its purpose and plan, there is a universal plan it is not a psychotic happening without clear purpose; that is only in your head till now; <br />yes I cannot and no one can change your mind ( unless you are ready and you wanted ) it is your state of mind but that sate of mind no matter what you try to show here is making you suffer., why? because you have no positive prospect and faith in Buddha teachings of ultimate happiness and freedom from all illusions and thus no true motivation and incentive for practice since you again will became deluded and its all 'me' anyway; this is what you said many times; this is your wrong understanding of the mutual possession of the 10 worlds, although I don't belong directly in this line of Buddhism ( and please all of you feel free to correct me ) but I don't believe it means that one is like a moody psychopath forever carrying untransformed all the things in one self and also accepting indiscriminately in mood swings all sorts of influences and displaying them and acting upon them as that being the mutual possession which cannot be changed into a permanent harmonious being leading it with Higher Consciousness free from the lower natures and evil tendencies to a greater perfection. <br /><br />Also final ,you say here " Nichiren never said that there will be an end to rebirth but rather better conditions in future lives " so you accept ongoing progress that's what we are saying. <br /><br />SxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141371159792182381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-9803396853645794862016-06-27T19:09:22.068-05:002016-06-27T19:09:22.068-05:00Hatie the pest can't help revealing her domina...Hatie the pest can't help revealing her dominant life condition it speaks for itself bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz~~~~~Noelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13502699520823314375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-28415096529405740772016-06-27T19:07:00.744-05:002016-06-27T19:07:00.744-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Noelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13502699520823314375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-57910719003991748222016-06-27T18:59:15.465-05:002016-06-27T18:59:15.465-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141371159792182381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-55650045558991308952016-06-27T18:56:55.271-05:002016-06-27T18:56:55.271-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141371159792182381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-7973802089124144382016-06-27T18:45:09.444-05:002016-06-27T18:45:09.444-05:00stav hatzJune 24, 2016 at 8:34 PM
stav hatzJune...stav hatzJune 24, 2016 at 8:34 PM<br /><br /><br /><br />stav hatzJune 24, 2016 at 6:59 PM<br /><br />You are making things up as usual; I feel if you had faith in your chanting and practiced steadily your heart would be more pure and your mind more clear to see, read and understand correctly what has been said here. Where did I said or Katie by the way that there is individual extinction or that is what we are after on the contrary we both agree on that for on going perfection and continuation of individuality, you are twisting things; if you wish to be right then speak the truth; also I have send you and placed on this Blog the different options that are open for the individuals at certain stage of maturity, I spoke the truth as it is described in the scriptures the different attainments by different individuals and that too I told you is not fixed but further progress is possible, individual life is a dynamic field of infinite possibilities and no recycle or retrogression as you Mr Noel keep saying and insisting on fall, degradation, weakness and all that.<br />This is a part of what I have send you before: "the liberated reaching a stage of maturity several option are open to it depends of its line of progress and realization different possibilities presenting themselves at the same time for developed souls such as, - merger back, lingering for eternity enjoying the difference of unity, returning as a Master who can help, engaging with creation as a realized being, participating in the new adventure of transformation into eternity without individual end etc etc. "<br />And for your information as I said many times before the path which I follow is the last of eternal individual progression.<br /><br />As I said earlier you are not really conscious of what you are saying or what you sending or reading, and that shows your lack of practice and lack of steady practice of chanting; no matter what you say it is clear; and having mixed up mind you are presenting your Buddhism in a Psychotic way just like your mind appears and you presenting Buddhas and Bodhisattvas like psychopaths who built with one hand and destroy what they built with the other, who teach to enlighten others and then create falsity and ignorance to delude others; would a sane person do that? <br />Everything has its purpose and plan, there is a universal plan it is not a psychotic happening without clear purpose; that is only in your head till now; <br />yes I cannot and no one can change your mind ( unless you are ready and you wanted ) it is your state of mind but that sate of mind no matter what you try to show here is making you suffer., why? because you have no positive prospect and faith in Buddha teachings of ultimate happiness and freedom from all illusions and thus no true motivation and incentive for practice since you again will became deluded and its all 'me' anyway; this is what you said many times; this is your wrong understanding of the mutual possession of the 10 worlds, although I don't belong directly in this line of Buddhism ( and please all of you feel free to correct me ) but I don't believe it means that one is like a moody psychopath forever carrying untransformed all the things in one self and also accepting indiscriminately in mood swings all sorts of influences and displaying them and acting upon them as that being the mutual possession which cannot be changed into a permanent harmonious being leading it with Higher Consciousness free from the lower natures and evil tendencies to a greater perfection. <br /><br />Also final ,you say here " Nichiren never said that there will be an end to rebirth but rather better conditions in future lives " so you accept ongoing progress that's what we are saying. <br /><br />SxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141371159792182381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-78169359973286049112016-06-26T09:49:29.323-05:002016-06-26T09:49:29.323-05:00Buzzzzz-buzzzzzzzzz-bzzzzzzzzzzzz~~~~~~~~~~~~Buzzzzz-buzzzzzzzzz-bzzzzzzzzzzzz~~~~~~~~~~~~Katie Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05688676386085212349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-348718708200338152016-06-25T23:01:38.838-05:002016-06-25T23:01:38.838-05:00I acknowledge what has been said but don't agr...I acknowledge what has been said but don't agree with some concepts that i consider to be dysfunctional incoherent nonsensical outlooks that like minded people like you both agree on and reiforce oneanothers delusions Noelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13502699520823314375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-83894708561609591372016-06-25T10:38:14.517-05:002016-06-25T10:38:14.517-05:00"By the way Noel in case of your mind fluctua..."By the way Noel in case of your mind fluctuations just remind you in this closing mail that you have been presented with the correct teachings that Buddhas don't retrograde and your wrong conceptions and believes have been defeated"<br /><br />Thank you for reiterating this, Stav!<br /><br />" and that is the reason why no further discussion is taking place on that not because of fear of your profound realization and challenge "<br /><br />Yes, I agree!<br /><br />"but simply of being tired repeating the same things."<br /><br />that Noel refuses to acknowledge...<br /><br />It is wise, I agree-- to END this discussion, since the tenor of Noel's discourse has become like the buzzzzzing sound of a frenzied gadfly. <br /><br />I just want to end by saying,<br /><br />It has truly been fortunate for me to encounter you ,Stav-<br /><br />MANY THANKS TO NOEL -- for the opportunity!!<br /><br />All the Best,<br />~Katie<br /><br />Katie Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05688676386085212349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-75306161158558520322016-06-25T10:23:24.303-05:002016-06-25T10:23:24.303-05:00Noel, >>the passage in the Maka Shikan, &quo...Noel, >>the passage in the Maka Shikan, "Although they study Buddhism, their views revert to those of non-Buddhists."<br /><br /> >>refers to you, Noel-- disregarding whichever sutra passages and writings of Nichiren that don't suit you- believing your mind itself, all by itself IS BUDDHA. >"<br /><br />Your good friend, stav, has noted in detail how you diverge from the teachings of Nichiren and shakyamuni. How amazing and compassionate was his attempt to convert you to the teachings you claim to uphold?? A truly praise worthy attempt, in my opinion!!<br /><br />"Because they turn their backs on their Buddha nature, the Thus Come One of the Dharma body ...[they] cannot be called entities of Myoho-renge-kyo"- that's YOU, Noel -- <br /><br />So, what you are perceiving and calling *revelations* are just delusions from your befuddled state, of mind. <br /><br />You are not alone in assuming you are *already* Buddha via this Gosho -- [SGI/NST & Nichiren -shu make arrogant assumptions and slander in the same manner that you employ]<br /><br />Mark clarified that the *questionable* status of "On Attaining Buddhahood..." is due to the timing of the writing- very early- and bearing the influence of Nichiren's Tendai schooling. The Tendai school. likewise noted by Nichiren to have been under the influence of the workings of the king devil, AKA Zen doctrines, is one of the more difficult schools to expose---<br /><br />However, Noel, if you keep reading Nichiren's writings, your error will become clear to you . If you chant with the icihinen to embrace , [rather than *re-write* the Lotus Sutra via misinterpretations of Nichiren's writings] you will purify your senses...<br /><br />~Katie<br /><br /><br /><br />Katie Higginshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05688676386085212349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-22830390422308355802016-06-25T02:09:09.838-05:002016-06-25T02:09:09.838-05:00Stavros;"The liberated reaching a stage of ma...Stavros;"The liberated reaching a stage of maturity several option are open to it depends of its line of progress and realization different possibilities presenting themselves at the same time for developed souls such as, - merger back, lingering for eternity enjoying the difference of unity, returning as a Master who can help, engaging with creation as a realized being, participating in the new adventure of transformation into eternity without individual end etc etc. "<br /><br />"So if you take That as your Ultimate Self as the Ultimate "You" so to speak than yes it is 'You' or more precisely That who will become and is becoming all these again and again but not in the individual sense of Noel as an individual continuation." <br /><br />So you may return as a master for all eternity without an individual end that has no karmic individual continuation from the Stavros of this life. So this is what you mean by "And for your information as I said many times before the path which I follow is the last of eternal individual progression."<br /><br />Or maybe you will merge back as a rock enjoying the differences as you have the habit of doing <br /><br />Or engaging with creation as a realized being, participating in the new adventure of transformation into eternity without individual end, like what I'm doing nowNoelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13502699520823314375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-15242919880167625212016-06-25T01:31:27.586-05:002016-06-25T01:31:27.586-05:00It is the same with a Buddha and a common mortal. ...It is the same with a Buddha and a common mortal. While deluded, one is called a common mortal, but once enlightened, he is called a Buddha. Even a tarnished mirror will shine like a jewel if it is polished. A mind which presently is clouded by illusions originating from the innate darkness of life is like a tarnished mirror, but once it is polished it will become clear, reflecting the enlightenment of immutable truth. Arouse deep faith and polish your mirror night and day. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.<br /><br />What then does myo signify? It is simply the mysterious nature of our lives from moment to moment, which the mind cannot comprehend nor words express. When you look into your own mind at any moment, you perceive neither color nor form to verify that it exists. Yet you still cannot say it does not exist, for many differing thoughts continually occur to you. Life is indeed an elusive reality that transcends both the words and concepts of existence and nonexistence. It is neither existence nor nonexistence, yet exhibits the qualities of both. It is the mystic entity of the Middle Way that is the reality of all things. Myo is the name given to the mystic nature of life, and ho to its manifestations.<br /><br />Renge, the lotus flower, symbolizes the wonder of this Law. Once you realize that your own life is the Mystic Law, you will realize that so are the lives of all others. That realization is the mystic kyo, or sutra. It is the king of sutras, the direct path to enlightenment, for it explains that the entity of our minds, from which spring both good and evil, is in fact the entity of the Mystic Law. If you have deep faith in this truth and chant Myoho-renge-kyo, you are certain to attain Buddhahood in this lifetime. <br /><br />That is why the sutra states, "After my death, you must embrace this sutra. Those who do so shall travel the straight road to Buddhahood." Never doubt in the slightest, but keep your faith and attain enlightenment in this lifetime. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.<br /><br />Respectfully,<br />NichirenNoelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13502699520823314375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-19225554345309071342016-06-25T01:30:54.933-05:002016-06-25T01:30:54.933-05:00On Attaining Buddhahood
- Issho Jobutsu Sho -
If ...On Attaining Buddhahood<br />- Issho Jobutsu Sho -<br /><br />If you wish to free yourself from the sufferings of birth and death you have endured through eternity and attain supreme enlightenment in this lifetime, you must awaken to the mystic truth which has always been within your life. This truth is Myoho-renge-kyo. Chanting Myoho-renge-kyo will therefore enable you to grasp the mystic truth within you. Myoho-renge-kyo is the king of sutras, flawless in both letter and principle. Its words are the reality of life, and the reality of life is the Mystic Law (Myoho). It is called the Mystic Law because it explains the mutually inclusive relationship of life and all phenomena. That is why this sutra is the wisdom of all Buddhas.<br /><br />Life at each moment encompasses both body and spirit and both self and environment of all sentient beings in every condition of life1, as well as insentient beings -- plants, sky and earth, on down to the most minute particles of dust. Life at each moment permeates the universe and is revealed in all phenomena. One awakened to this truth himself embodies this relationship. However, even though you chant and believe in Myoho-renge-kyo, if you think the Law is outside yourself, you are embracing not the Mystic Law but some inferior teaching. "Inferior teachings" means those other than this sutra, which are all provisional and transient. No provisional teaching leads directly to enlightenment, and without the direct path to enlightenment you cannot attain Buddhahood, even if you practice lifetime after lifetime for countless aeons. Attaining Buddhahood in this lifetime is then impossible. Therefore, when you chant the Mystic Law and recite the Lotus Sutra, you must summon up deep conviction that Myoho-renge-kyo is your life itself.<br /><br />You must never seek any of Shakyamuni's teachings or the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the universe outside yourself. Your mastery of the Buddhist teachings will not relieve you of mortal sufferings in the least unless you perceive the nature of your own life. If you seek enlightenment outside yourself, any discipline or good deed will be meaningless. For example, a poor man cannot earn a penny just by counting his neighbor's wealth, even if he does so night and day. That is why Miao-lo states, "Unless one perceives the nature of his life, he cannot eradicate his evil karma." He means here that unless one perceives the nature of his life, his practice will become an endless, painful austerity. Miao-lo therefore condemns such students of Buddhism as non-Buddhist. He refers to the passage in the Maka Shikan, "Although they study Buddhism, their views revert to those of non-Buddhists."<br /><br />Whether you chant the Buddha's name3, recite the sutra or merely offer flowers and incense, all your virtuous acts will implant benefits in your life. With this conviction you should put your faith into practice. For example, the Jomyo Sutra says the Buddha's enlightenment is to be found in human life, thus showing that common mortals can attain Buddhahood and that the sufferings of birth and death can be transformed into nirvana. It further states that if the minds of the people are impure, their land is also impure, but if their minds are pure, so is their land. There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds.<br /><br />cont...Noelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13502699520823314375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-91225544433418720082016-06-25T01:05:55.822-05:002016-06-25T01:05:55.822-05:00Also a great soul Swami Vivekananda in 1893 he wen...Also a great soul Swami Vivekananda in 1893 he went to Chicago to take part in the world religious congress ( imagine at that time someone to speak to a Christian nation about the soul the essence of man is one with God the Essence of all and reincarnation ) and all became amazed at his speeches, they used to keep him last so that all would stay to listen all the speakers. <br />He was the first in big scale to introduce the ancient Vedanta to the west.<br /> But when he went there at first he had no formal invitation and so because Boston was cheaper he went there till he find solution how to get access as a representative of Vedanta religion. So he met at Boston an university professor John Henry Wright from Harvard University and when the professor heard his teachings he immediately said you should speak at the congress and Vivekananda said I don't have officially the credentials , when the professor heard this he said "To ask for your credentials is like asking the sun to state its right to shine in the heavens."[3] This is his speech 1983 in Chicago ( it is not his voice there was not recording available at that time but it well made as he spoke it )<br /> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQekcwOZ8FU<br /><br />SxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141371159792182381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-42377262314030753552016-06-24T23:36:19.398-05:002016-06-24T23:36:19.398-05:00By the way Noel in case of your mind fluctuations ...By the way Noel in case of your mind fluctuations just remind you in this closing mail that you have been presented with the correct teachings that Buddhas don't retrograde and your wrong conceptions and believes have been defeated and that is the reason why no further discussion is taking place on that not because of fear of your profound realization and challenge but simply of being tired repeating the same things.<br /> THE ENDAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141371159792182381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-45376564409152303872016-06-24T23:11:41.608-05:002016-06-24T23:11:41.608-05:00To be more precise I practice a similar technique ...To be more precise I practice a similar technique which was anciently used for opening the inner centres of consciousness together with chanting the OM ; Paramahansa Yogananda slightly modified the technique he taught in the western world. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141371159792182381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-13350983014411108752016-06-24T22:34:08.345-05:002016-06-24T22:34:08.345-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141371159792182381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-25306021356344454922016-06-24T22:24:45.330-05:002016-06-24T22:24:45.330-05:00In Boston Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920 attended t...In Boston Paramahansa Yogananda in 1920 attended the congress of world religions and spread the teachings of ancient India and established first centre there and then in other parts of US called the Self-Realization Fellowship. You would probably heard about him Katie, I practice the Kriya Yoga he taught and the chanting of OM. http://www.yogananda.com.au/gallery_py_life.html<br /><br /><br />SxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141371159792182381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-6535909859331836592016-06-24T21:52:36.063-05:002016-06-24T21:52:36.063-05:00Thank you Katie for taking the time to reply my ma...Thank you Katie for taking the time to reply my mail;<br /> In the way you see some things i kindly disagree; but I do appreciate your sincerity and your practice you do; everyone in their religion ( accept some and they will soon or later find their path and the teachings which appeal to them ) who follow sincerely ones path have to have faith in it; but faith also grows through practice which turns ultimately into a direct perception and realization where faith becomes a reality; <br /> take a Christian, or Muslim or Vedantist he/she truly believes that is the highest path for me just like you it is natural; but very few understand and I am not playing here some genius but me too, for me I do accept the Vedanta as the best but I do at the same time see and recognize others as well; I can see beauty, sacrifice and love and wisdom and power in Jesus Christ, also in Saints like Frances of Assisi; or if you have heard of Bede Griffith a Catholic monk who settled in India; or Shaym of Tabriz and Rumi; and others from India they are all a family I feel them as such : and in my opening prayer before practice they are always mentioned "saints ( which includes also Buddha and Bodhisattvas)and sages of all religions I bow to you all" . I see also in your Nichiren Buddhism so much truth and universality but also so much conflict ^_^. There will always be some varieties even among the same religion, just as they are in your path many sects, just like in Christianity etc; I agree that what you follow you see it as the best but don't deny the best that is seen by others. Vedanta is outside the Buddhist sutras and the vedic tradition don't call their Fully enlighten beings as Buddhas although they are, they call them by different names like Avatars or Bhagavan and other names. <br /><br />Anyway you take care of your self and if you do come to Sydney let me know; keep my email.<br /><br />Warmly Namaste Sx<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141371159792182381noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2070186063250309253.post-57467596477705099932016-06-24T20:59:59.958-05:002016-06-24T20:59:59.958-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15141371159792182381noreply@blogger.com