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Welcome to the first virtual home
in Yugoslavia, dedicated to Nichiren Buddhists. This site is also part
of Indras.Net1. You
can take a look around and read some texts. I recommend particularly these
titles.
Version of the website without commercials is
here.
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Encouragement
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| Shorter and longer encouragements
on the path of practice. Various sources.
Encourage yourself!. |
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Daimoku
Screen Saver
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some screen savers too. Take a look. |
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Literature
in English
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| I can warmly recommend you to visit
this
site maintained by Will Kallander, where you can find a rich electronic
literature related to practice and study of Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin.
Among other things, there you can find all seven volumes of Gosho (1st edition)
and entire Lotus Sutra. |
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A short
intro and explanation of practice - shakubuku
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A basic practice of Nichiren Buddhism
consists of two main parts: gongyo and daimoku.
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Gongyo (Jap. Gongyo) means persistent
effort. (You can see the detailed and piquant explanations of these
Chinese characters here.)
This part of the practice consists of reading parts of the Lotus
Sutra in the morning and evening, in front of the mandala (Gohonzon);
it can also be done without the mandala and silent
prayers (directing our own benevolent thoughts to the forces of the
universe which support life, to the founder and successors of this Buddhist
school, to our own wishes for fulfillment and overcoming of hindrances,
to deceased relatives and all those who have passed away, and, at the end,
to endeavor to spread prosperity as far and as much as possible). In the
practice of gongyo, daimoku is included too.
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Daimoku (Jap. Daimoku) means
highly
respected name, title. This is actually the title of the Lotus Sutra
Myoho Renge Kyo (Jap.) with the added prefix namu (Skt. I
dedicate my self to, or to devote one's self) so altogether
it sounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.
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term daimoku relates in the same way both to the sentence and to its repeating.
Daimoku (repeating) can be performed independently from gongyo, and gongyo
includes daimoku in own composition. It is said that just pronouncing daimoku
once counts as if you've been reading once the entire content of the Lotus
Sutra. Because of that it is placed on the first place by value in the
practice (during gongyo we read parts of two chapters, of the total twenty eight
chapters, of the Lotus Sutra).
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How does all of that work? Think
about some wish, or more of them, and repeat (chant) daimoku
(Nam Myoho Renge Kyo). Believe a little, for the beginning, until you are
assured,
be persistent and choose some life-supporting wishes, since Nichiren
Buddhism is respecting life as the ultimate value and supports it. After
some time you will be closer and closer to your destination... And this
is just the beginning. What really happens during your daimoku you can
learn here. How daimoku sounds and some
other 'tips and tricks' you can see here.
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Suspended
above the palace of Indra, the Buddhist god who symbolizes the natural
forces that protect and nurture life, is an enormous net. A brilliant jewel
is attached to each of the knots of the net. Each jewel contains and reflects
the image of all the other jewels in the net, which sparkles in the magnificence
of its totality.
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"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."
(Buddha)
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Suffer what
there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering
and joy as facts of life and continue chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, no
matter what happens. Then you will experience boundless joy from the Law.
Strengthen your faith more than ever.
With my deep
respect,
Nichiren.
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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.
(N. Daishonin)
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Never seek
this Gohonzon outside yourself. The Gohonzon exists only within the mortal
flesh of us ordinary people who embrace the Lotus Sutra and chant Nam Myoho
Renge Kyo. The body is the palace of the ninth consciousness, the unchanging
reality which reigns over all life's functions. (N.
Daishonin)
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A
passage from the Lotus Sutra reads, 'During the Latter Day of the Law,
if one wishes to teach this sutra, he should employ the mild way of propagation.'
Another reads, 'In the Latter Day when the Law is about to perish, a person
who embraces, reads and recites this sutra must abandon feelings of envy
and deceit.'
(Daishonin)
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Even though
one neither reads nor studies the sutra, chanting the title alone is the
source of tremendous good fortune.
(Dashonin)
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Free
Gosho
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Kidding? No. Just GNT (Go [here]
'N' Take).
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Free
Lotus Sutra
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What? How? Easy, just like Gosho
- by GNT technology. Pick
up.
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.Free
Toda's Lecture.
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"Lecture on the Sutra" by Josei
Toda from '68. Zip archive rtf format. GO!
Same work in html format with linked contents etc. Go
get it!
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Free
lunch
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This IS a joke...
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