"In this world there are three wrong viewpoints. If one clings to these viewpoints, then all things in this world are but to be denied. First, some say that all human experience is based on destiny; second, some hold that everything is created by God and controlled by His will; third, some say that everything happens by chance without having any cause or condition.
If all has been decided by destiny, both good deeds and evil deeds are predetermined, weal and woe are predestined; nothing would exist that has not been foreordained. Then all human plans and efforts for improvement and progress would be in vain and humanity would be without hope.
The same is true of the other viewpoints, for, if everything in the last resort is in the hands of an unknowable God, or of blind chance, what hope has humanity except in submission? It is no wonder that people holding these conceptions lose hope and neglect efforts to act wisely and to avoid evil.
In fact, these three conceptions or viewpoints are all wrong: everything is a succession of appearance whose source is the accumulation of causes and conditions."
from the Avatamsaka-sutra....
We have a few years left on this planet. Buddhism teaches to not kill. The life support system on this planet is within a hair's breadth of being poisoned irreparably by the the most acutely toxins known. The equivalent of ten thousand nuclear bombs of radionucleides were expelled into the environment when Fukushima went through a prompt criticality, 3 China syndromes, and 2 hydrogen explosions.
ReplyDeleteThere were already enough radioisotopes in Chernobyl and from nuclear waste in nuclear countries. Now concentrations of radionuclide's have like cesium 137 and strontium 90 are reaching critical levels as they have in Belarus. 85 percent of the children in Belarus have heart defects. Dr Miller and Dr Bandhazevsky measured 10 bq/kg in the tissues of children in Belarus. They measured 40bq/kg in the averaged soil samples. Possibly more than 3 reactors melted down in Japan at the time of the 9.0 quake that ruined Fukushima. tepco has finally admitted covering up the three Fukushima meltdowns at Fukushima.
Fukushima expelled more fuel and radionucleides into the environment than a hundred Chernobyl's. I have 2 dear friends who died of cancer, in Tokyo, at young ages, this year. The fake census in Japan last year does not account for a million less people in Japan from other demographics. The pacific is dying.
Delete"an attack by demons from without. Evil aspects within our hearts function to attract these demons. Evil intentions will call forth various demons. Demons possess a boundless and infinite nature, and they give rise to various causes for diseases, based on the negative karmic causes created by people. Through various forms of greed, the demons draw forth many types of diseases." - On curing Karmic disease
an unbridled greed of a materialist society with an endless consumption for temporary gain laying waste the earth with all its passengers by Nuclear, chemical, biological etc means creating imbalances triggering man made mass extinction
Nichiren taught that the Japanese people were evil and they would collectively suffer severe retribution for their misdeeds.
ReplyDeleteNichiren was, himself, Japanese, appearing in Japan, a country steeped in the misery caused by the effects of abandoning Shakyamuni Buddha-- and slandering his highest teaching, the Lotus Sutra. This great evil produced the conditions for Nichiren to reveal and begin propagating myoho renge kyo--
DeleteJapanese people have propagated myoho-renge-kyo and spread the teaching throughout the world, causing millions of people out side of Japan to hear it-- and most of these people will slander it, and thus, share collectively in the causes of the Japanese people. --
Here again, the conditions produced by this great worldwide slander of the Law, will become the reason true votaries of the Lotus Sutra, followers of Nichiren will propagate the Law, rebuke slander of the Law, establish the correct faith and practice for all living beings-- and attain Buddhaood.
""In fact, these three conceptions or viewpoints are all wrong: everything is a succession of appearance whose source is the accumulation of causes and conditions."
from the Avatamsaka-sutra...
Only Nichiren's Lotus Sutra Buddhism correctly identifies the source and teaches the practice that is the one True cause for creating the conditions for peace, prosperity and happiness- for all living beings.
~Katie
cheers!
Deletetwo atomic bombs..............and now they are living on one! geez!
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