Here's my latest cache of Nichiren-related links... I caught this blurb regarding one-pointedness of mind:
As luck would have it, some years later I happened to attend a lecture at San Jose State College conducted by Bishop Nippo Shaku (1910-1991), of the Nichiren tradition. ...He began the lecture by showing us this crazy, poster size ink brush painting he had made with black ink. It looked liked something Jackson Pollock might have done if he had been born and raised in Japan.
Bishop Nippo went on for a long time talking about the ordinary mind represented by the heavy, wild black lines. Then with a grin, looking at the class he said, "And here is your pure Mind" pointing to the white paper...
A "crazy, poster size ink brush painting"? I wonder if he's referring to the Gohonzon. Interesting.... |
| Hey kids, here's another honorary citizenship to go with all those honorary doctorates: "Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, the third president of the Soka Gakkai International group, and his wife, Kaneko, are honorary citizens of Kaua'i."
"Honorary" is another word for "imaginary." Ikeda never earned the "Dr." that his fans put in front of his name.
Oh, lookie. There's also a new "Daisaku and Kaneko Ikeda Ohana Peace Park" in Hilo.
A hike along a "Kamakura trail" leads to a Nichiren-related site:
...Legend tells us that on august 27 in 1260, when Jodo-shu fanatic mobs set fire to Nichiren's shack in "Mastuba ga yatsu", tree white apes appeared and guided Nichiren to an old shrine's cave here. The shrine was "Sanno Gongen" and tree apes were divine envoys of "Sanno Gongen".
I've never heard this before...the story of Nisshin, student of Nichiren:
...Each day during winter, he was standing in the icy water of a pond nearby the temple, reciting sutras. Then, peeling a fingernail, he was drawing a mandala in the water with the blood flowing from the finger....
Intense.
If you speak Japanese, maybe this is an informative vid about the Nichiren Art and Belief Exhibition. I dunno. I don't speak Japanese.
Also, here's a video of Nichiren Shu's Mt. Minobu...in Japanese. |
