This Friday 19th April @ 7.00pm GMT
All are welcome.
Session Six: Thoughts & Feelings/The Ten Factors of Life & Three Thousand Realms of Being in a Single Moment of Life.
Please read session six before attending
Newcomers please be aware we chant for 15 mins before each group meeting
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“Climbing The Mountain”
The Complete Handbook of Buddhist Recovery.
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In this next session we examine thinking and how feelings arise from thought and to remember that in the final analysis it is always our feelings that we use on.
It is uncomfortable feelings that we want to change by using a mind altering substance or more pleasurable feelings that we want to magnify and intensify by using our drug of choice.
We must raise our self awareness regarding how we are feeling or what life condition we are experiencing moment to moment to be able to manage the risk of relapse.
Am I hungry, angry, lonely or tired? (H.A.L.T.) or a myriad of other uncomfortable feelings such as depression, guilt and anxiety, as it is a well known fact that these feelings and emotions are massive internal triggers.
I have always found how my Buddhist Practice always changes how I am feeling for the better, after I have performed Gongyo & Shodai my daily Buddhist Practice, I always feel invigorated and empowered to take on all of life’s vicissitudes.
Also we now explore the fundamental teaching of The Lotus Sutra, the basis and bedrock of faith in Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism, that of Ichinen Sanzen or Three Thousand Realms of Being in a Single Moment of Life, which is embodied in Dai Gohonzon. (The Great Mandala) as it reveals and explains the mutually inclusive relationship between the Self and all phenomena in The Universe.
As Nichiren Daishonin himself said:
“You must know that the sutras The Buddha has preached during the four periods, The Sutra of Infinite Meanings (Muryogi Kyo) that The Buddha now preaches and the Nirvana Sutra, which The Buddha will preach, are easy to believe and easy to understand, as they are teachings expounded according to the minds of the people (Jap: Zutai)
The Lotus Sutra is the most difficult to believe and most difficult to understand, as it is the teaching expounded according to The Buddhas own mind.(Jap: Zuijii)
The teaching expounded based on The Buddhas enlightenment is superior to the teaching expounded based on the peoples mind.”
The Teaching of Ichinen Sanzen is the highest teaching revealed in The Lotus Sutra and is the basis of faith in Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism and is the most difficult teaching to understand and internalise as it expresses the enlightenment of The Buddha but we must continue to study this teaching until we ourselves have come to understand it fully and have internalised it, engraving it in our heart and mind.