Comments on: A Buddhist Podcast – The Izu Exile

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By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:00:49 +0000

I am so touched to see so many comments, thank you so much. To Alex, I am planning to do some lectures on The Opening of the Eyes this year. Karen is going to Taplow tomorrow to try to get President Ikeda’s compiled lectures for me to read!
I find the best way to understand the Gosho is to read President Ikeda’s guidance again and again and again, backed up with lots of daimoku and talking with people and then it miraculously unpacks itself. The combination for the lock is faith, practice and study!
Thank you thank you thank you to everyone for your support.

By: rick vonk

rick vonk — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:55:36 +0000

Hi, thanks, very inspiring and helped me understand this Gosho much more than previously.

New years best wishes,

Rick

By: Mark Mouse

Mark Mouse — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:17:01 +0000

By: Dash and Donna

Dash and Donna — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:56:48 +0000

Jason and Karen,

On this Christmas Eve, Donna and I wish you and your children wonderful fortune and happiness in the coming year. Thanks for sharing your wisdom in the podcast and encouraging us all with your “actual proof” in the face of adversity.

We separately and equally treasure our friendship with you and look forward to the future with you!

love,
D and D

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:46:34 +0000

Thanks for these podcasts on the goshos, I’ve been trying to study the goshos in addition to my math and physics courses and if I could ask for a big favor: could you work on “The Opening of the Eyes”?

I’ve read it silently, aloud, backwards, forwards, asleep, awake, upside down, sober, loaded with more caffeine than a mathematician, chanting, and every linear combination thereof and I know it’s still too deep for me!

Also thanks for posting this off of iTunes, I’m running Linux and they don’t release iTunes for Linux! So I really appreciate releasing this on the blog instead of solely on iTunes, thanks.

Cheers!
Alex

By: Claudius

Claudius — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:46:09 +0000

Hi Jason, Thank you so much for this contribution to our movement for kosen-rufu. Your lecture on The Izu Exile was insightful & inspiring. I look forward to more. I have been trying to download this show – the Izu Exile lecture – as a podcast without any success, any idea why this might be?

By: Timothy

Timothy — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:07:31 +0000

Guys,

I finally got round to contributing a little (I’m a student again, so it’s not so much, sorry) towards your costs for producing these podcasts. I really enjoyed this lecture and while it might not be such a nice situation for you to be in, the parallels you draw to the here and now of your own life bring out the message so much more powerfully.

… and boy do I like The Buddha, Geoff and me – it’s simply fantastic!

Just one thing on faith, my understanding of Buddhism (and it might be wildly wrong, please let me know if it is) is that the faith issue with Buddhism is not with external “gods” but rather with the good within. It’s about practising the Dharma, not believing in something external.

Have a Merry Christmas & Yule and a prosperous and happy New Year!

By: owly

owly — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:46:37 +0000

I first heard nam myoho renge kyo through a friend of a friend – he was applying for a job and asked me to say some daimoku for him; I did, then thought no more of it… 5 years later, another dear friend invited me to her Gohonzon’s enshrining ceremony. I was strangely moved by the sound of the daimoku…a musical harmonic which went beyond words – I don’t know if that makes sense, but it’s how it ‘touched’ me….2 years later, I began chanting myself. It has been a very long journey – I was so, so resistant to the idea of ‘faith’. Sometimes, I still feel like a ‘bad’ buddhist…but I chant. And I continue to strive towards ‘indestructible happiness’. It is a daily struggle – but one for which I have deep gratitude; thank-you for the podcast: it is a treasure xx