Thu Jan 12, 2012 at 12:55:31 PM PST
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Shambhala Sunspace reports that the Dalai Lama recently remarked:
Now, the time has come [where] we must make every effort for the promotion of human compassion and human affection. In that respect female, biologically, more sort of sensitivity toward other's pain.
Science suggests that the Dalai Lama is right. Our Selves, Other Cells by Jena Pincott -- excerpted from her book Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies?: The Surprising Science of Pregnancy -- offers fascinating facts about the way in which human beings mutually and physically interpenetrate at a cellular level during pregnancy and beyond. Pincott looks at how mothers and thier babies swap cells; cells from one remain part of the other forever....
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Mon Jan 09, 2012 at 21:47:24 PM PST
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This article, An Interview with Nichiren Daishonin's Tooth by Brooke, first appeared on the "old" BuddhaJones site 12 years ago. Still makes me chuckle.
...The Onikuge is said to be the living tooth of Nichiren Daishonin (1222-1282). It is revered by some as a relic or sacred remains thought to benefit all beings.
The tooth spoke with Brooke St. George via telephone from its residence at Taiseki-ji, the Head Temple of Nichiren Shoshu, located at the base of Mt. Fuji in Japan...
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Tue Jan 03, 2012 at 12:01:26 PM PST
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According to comments posted by Mark Rogow on Fraught With Peril and on the Former SGI Member Forum the moderators of FWP have suspended Rogow's blog. Rogow is well known online as a vocal supporter of Kempon Hokke, and a critic of every other Nichiren sect.
Can anyone confirm this or elaborate on the details? Oh, and can anyone confirm that the person posting as "shamon" on FWP is in fact Reverend Tsuchiya of Kempon Hokke, as was suggested in a previous thread?
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Fri Dec 30, 2011 at 13:14:57 PM PST
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This is my last link roundup of 2011. I'll try to make it a good one. I'll start low and aim high with this blurb from the OC Register crime blotter:
Disturbance. 0 block University Drive. A drunken man at Soka University of America reportedly open a dorm room door, urinated and then passed out. 4:58 a.m. Saturday.
In Nichiren Buddhism, we call this ceremony Ushitora Gottago.
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Fri Dec 16, 2011 at 13:13:43 PM PST
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I've been watching from the cheap seats as Kempon Hokke zealots have clusterbombed Rev. Ryuei of Nichiren Shu over on Fraught With Peril, a multi-sectarian blogging platform for Nichiren Buddhists.
What started the war? A simple question about whether Nichiren Buddhists can have Christmas trees!
Attacks on that thread apparently prompted Ryuei to respond that some people have no business blogging on FWP. He followed up with a post clarifying his intent as a FWP blogger.
As you might imagine, Kempon Hokke zealots smell blood and have piled on Ryuei in the comments section of his blog and over here on Mark Rogow's little slice of the universe.
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Fri Dec 09, 2011 at 11:44:46 AM PST
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Perhaps several Nichirenites are Bodhisattvas Uniquely Delayed -- a moniker coined by ten2one. Or perhaps my efforts to keep current are woefully lax. Regardless. Yesterday was Bodhi Day. Did you feel a ripple of awakening flow through you? I did, but I assumed it was something I ate....
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Tue Dec 06, 2011 at 16:26:48 PM PST
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FYI, this notice has been added to the bottom of each page of this website:
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