The buddhahood Podcast

Three Kinds of Practice

3 Kinds of Practice. Nichiren gives us advice for steadfastness in our practice in the Gosho, “Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra”.
http://threefoldlotus.com/study/ThreeKindsPractice.pdf
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Buddhism Reference - Paramita

Buddhism Reference – Paramita. The Bodhisattva building of self-behavioral skills for reason, honesty, and truth for one’s mind of awareness and as it applies to the understanding of others.E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available  Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm

Buddhism Reference - Outflows

Buddhism Reference – Outflows. Expelling energies using the Samsaric mind of cravings and clinging, thwarting those energies from manifesting Buddha.E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available  Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm

Buddhism Reference - Omniscience

Buddhism Reference – Omniscience. A term used by translators to try to capture the illumination of the mind of Buddhahood.E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available  Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm

Buddhism Reference - Non-Origination - Void - Emptiness - Exist/Not-Exist

Buddhism Reference – Non-Origination. An early teaching term used often to equate ideas of emptiness, the void, self/not-self to “Destiny” or karma as immutable. Nichiren and the Lotus directly confront and destroy this idea with the invocation of the Engine of Life to alter, to influence all karma by our actions.E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available  Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm

Buddhism Reference - Eternal - Eternity

Buddhism Reference – Eternal. All phenomena are momentum of energy. Moment-to-moment instantiations of potential energies arising, abiding, and dissolving from and back to quiescence.E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available  Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm

Buddhism Reference - Nagarjuna

Buddhism Reference – Nagarjuna. One of the most important Buddhist scholars and founder of the “Middle Way” and “Emptiness” doctrines of the Madhyamaka School.E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available  Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm

Buddhism Reference - Nagas

Buddhism Reference – Nagas. An ancient term from Hindu mythologies of a creature relegated to the underworlds by Brahma; these dragons or serpents are used as helpful protectors of living beings in Buddhism.E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available  Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm

Buddhism Reference - Monkey Mind

Buddhism Reference – Monkey Mind. Our Samsaric Mind as it relentlessly jumps from one distraction to the next for self pleasure and emotional rewards or fears.E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available  Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm

Buddhism Reference - Middle Way - part 2

Buddhism Reference – Middle Way - part-2. Dependent Origination is a cornerstone of the Middle Way in that it describes in language the incalculable interactions and influences of constant instantiations of potential upon each and every other from moment to moment in our experience of life.E-books - “Buddhism Reference – Now Available  Threefoldlotus.com/home/Ebooks.htm