Buddhist Concepts
Feel as though Your Prayers Aren’t Answered?
https://youtu.be/0YzG_odjaCc Today I’m going to discuss six areas for reflection when you don’t feel your prayers are being answered. Are[...]
A Buddhist View on How to Handle a Difficult Person
https://youtu.be/BVnYn21u4YQ As Bill Aiken, former SGI-USA Vice General director said in his World Tribune article, The Oneness of Life and[...]
Know How to Transform Your Karma?
https://youtu.be/izrJVXnuu10 When we find ourselves up against a thick wall of suffering and feel like we can’t go[...]
Are You Harnessing the Law of Specificity?
https://youtu.be/_McNyrKZ9qw To download transcript, click here. Most of us have a fuzzy idea of what we want. But if we[...]
Do You Know the Power of Thought?
To download the transcript, click here. If you look at the nine levels of consciousness in the Buddhist literature the[...]
How Does Buddhism Look at Relationship Issues?
https://youtu.be/msTdYw3jEaw To download the transcript, click here I’ve had a number of questions regarding how to chant about relationship issues.[...]
How Do We Handle Earthly Desires in the Pandemic?
https://youtube.com/embed/iv1QTK82IoE I hope you all are staying healthy and have been able to use this time of reflection to[...]
How Should We Chant About the Virus?
I had a question this week. “How should I chant about the COVID-19 ? Before I get into this topic,[...]
Do You Let Circumstances Control What You Do?
In the world today we are all trained by our cultures to rely on the evidence of the senses, on[...]
Do You Know That Gratitude Can Change Your Life?
We hear a lot about gratitude at this time of year. So does gratitude have a part in transforming[...]
Know How to Lessen Karmic Retribution?
I had a question this week. “How can I lessen karmic retribution?” Let’s look at what karma is first.[...]
You Are Never a Victim of Your Circumstances
Many people believe that they are the victim of one circumstance or another. Our culture teaches us that that[...]
Goal Setting: Know What Works and What Doesn’t?
I’ve had a number of questions about setting goals for various types of problems. So today I want[...]
Know the Difference Between the Mystic Law and the Law of Attraction?
"I had a question this week: why do we need to chant in front of the Gohonzon if the law[...]
Can I Change Someone Else by Chanting?
Can I change someone else by chanting? I have received this question over and over. Today I want to address[...]
Just How Responsible Are We for Our Problems?
Transcript download: Just-How-Responsible-Are-We-For-Our-Problems-2-4 The Buddhist concept oneness of life and its environment teaches us that everything in our lives[...]
Know How to Use Troubles to Nourish Your Growth?
Trouble Can Nourish Growth Our lives are planted in the murky pond of everyday life, just like a[...]
Do You Know Why You Should be Grateful for Adversity?
Transcript download: Adversity When you have come up against adversity and go to an experienced practitioner for guidance, they[...]
Do You Know How You Set Up Barriers to What You Want?
Transcript download: How we get in our way I think one of the important Buddhist concepts is the oneness[...]
What is “Being in Rhythm” With the Universe?
Buddhism teaches philosophical concepts, which, when you really study them, I believe are teaching us universal laws, or how the[...]
Did You Know There Are Ten Internal Hindrances to Buddhist Practice?
When we become practitioners of Nichiren Buddhism, we take on the task of liberating ourselves from suffering. We also commit[...]
Proven Steps to Human revolution
Not quite sure about how to accomplish human revolution in your own life? Let’s look at what human revolution is,[...]
Are You Chanting for Benefit or to Change Karma?
There comes a time in our practice, probably after chanting for a number of years, when we are faced with[...]
What Does the Life State of Buddhahood Look Like? # 2 of 2
If you are living in the life state of Buddhahood, you aren’t different from any other ordinary person. You’re like[...]
What is a Buddha? #1 of 2
The purpose of this post is to give you some idea of where you are heading when you start to[...]
The Way to Alter Your Circumstances Successfully
In the western world you tend to think that you are influenced by conditions outside and separate from yourself. Have[...]
You Are a Buddha
Inside each of you is an Enlightened level of life. At your core exists a beautiful, radiant self, embodying unshakeable[...]
You Can Change Your Life Condition Easily
In the last post I discussed the Ten Worlds so you could have an overview of the different internal life[...]
The Ten Worlds
Last week we talked about ten conditions of life, which we experience each day. These are important to us because[...]
Through Buddhism, Change Your Karma
What is karma? Karma represents tendencies present in the inner, unconscious realm of life. They have been created through one's[...]