We can hardly believe that it is almost exactly half way through 2009! Wow! Tonight we bring you a lecture on the letter written by Nichiren Daishonin to the Lay Nun of Ueno. The letter is called, Hell is the Land of Tranquil Light. Some of the subject teasers for tonight include:
- We need to reveal Buddhahood to overcome our karma
- Lets try and remember the names of our mothers
- The icy wind of thoughtless encouragement
- The ten worlds exist in life and death
- Giving 150% . . .in small bursts
- Are you in a prison of someone elses making?
- Changing circumstances won’t change karma
- Attaining Buddhahood just as you are
- It is human to feel grief when someone dies
- Gohonzon is the baseline of Buddhahood
- Chant first, shout later.
We have music for you from the Podsafe Music Network. First up is Carbon Leaf with A Life Less Ordinary. We close the show with Shines Right Through Me by the amazing Great Big Sea! The links we have for the tracks will take you through to where you can buy them on iTunes and the links for the names will take you through to their own website.
Karen and I are busy posting off orders for our new Tshirts! If you have yours and you send us a photograph of you wearing them, we will consider putting it on the artwork for the show (needs to be family friendly!) so send them in to us at jason(at)thejarretts.com!
Thankyou for your comments and encouragement. Thank you for all the support you give us, we really do feel and appreciate it. Please take great care and have the most amazing and wonderful week.
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Another full show!
Tonights lecture is on Nichiren Daishonin’s teaching called, On The Buddha’s Prophecy. The lecture is about the purpose of Buddhist practice. Some of the headings include:
- A Leap Month!
- Life at Ichinosawa
- Bodhisattva Medicine King
- Former, Middle and Latter Day of the Law
- Doing time in the “When I” Prison
- The teaching, the teacher and the mission
- What did the priests do for 700 years?
- The Soka Gakkai fullfills the Buddha’s Prophecy
- Its time to create happiness
We have President Ikeda’s New Year’s message for 2009, read by Ken George. There are shoutouts and music from Ioda Promonet including “Balance” by Sara Tavares which you can buy here at iTunes Music Store
The second track we play tonight is by Cohen which is also availabe here!Gold Is Where You Find It (mp3)
We are proud members of the Ioda Alliance!
Thankyou for all your support and encouragement! Have a fantastic week.
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Tonights show is so full!
Tonights lectures is based on guidance that President Ikeda gave earlier this year about the four points for victory. The four points are Prayer, Action, Unity and the Oneness of Mentor and Disciple. This lecture is about the second theme, Action! The main points of the lecture include:
- Developing our own individual attitude to faith
- Taking responsibility for the happiness of where we live
- The roar of the tiger of death
- Take the initiative and make new friends
- We reveal buddhahood in our behaviour
- The old man in the park
- What is the Buddha’s great teaching?
- Living with my mentor
- Three powerful enemies
- If not you then who?
We have a poem from Rabindranath Tagore called The Stream of Life. The music to accompany this poem is the Indian National Anthem, the words of which were also written by Rabindranath Tagore.
We have a question, and a lot of shoutouts from around the world. And we have a great experience from Isabelle Clinton!
We would also like to express our thanks to Anji Bee for her help in finding music for this show. Anji has a
great podcast and we are both big fans of her band the Love Spirals.
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Tonights show is a lecture on Nichiren Daishonin’s letter called ‘Reply to Sairen-bo’.The theme is once more on the mentor disciple relationship . Themes include:
- Trapped for 3 score years and 10
- The disciple chooses the mentor
- What is Buddhahood?
- Devil kings and demons
- I don’t want to spend my life in the toilet of mankind
- What qualifies the mentor?
- Creating a whirlpool of joy.
In honour of 25 years playing music, we play, from the Podsafe Music Network, Howard Jones and his song Building our own Future. We are also lucky enough to have a great track from Peter Robinson called Roar of the Wind for the men of the South of England.Originally we had planned to play the second half of William Woollards Chapter 1 tonight. However, we wanted to include an interview that we are working on but we did not manage to get it done in time! So the next show will include the second half!Thank you for listening and for your encouragement comments and kind emails. Your support is really welcomed, have a great week.
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