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What "technically" happens when we chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo?
The simple explanation is that you are practicing mindful concentration. The latter threefold division of concentration required in the Noble Eightfold Path. Whether you are doing sitting meditation, ...
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How to chant the mantra Nam Myoho Renge Kyo?
As a longtime practitioner of chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo and as a member of SGI, I will attempt to respond to some of your specific questions. My responses will be based as much as possible on the ...
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How to chant the mantra Nam Myoho Renge Kyo?
What is the best way to chant it?
I think that:
Chanting that mantra is a characteristic of a form of Buddhism (a school, a tradition of Buddhism) called "Nichiren" (see Nichiren).
There aren't many ...
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What "technically" happens when we chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo?
I'm French and have been practicing 29 years. I apologize for my English writing.
Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo makes a high vibration, 7.5hz, the same as the earth's. Inside our body all cells will ...
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What "technically" happens when we chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo?
Yes. It would be exciting to find out the scientific aspect/explanation on the mechanisms of the act of of chanting daimoku. Arnold Toynbee had any explanation?
From personal experience I notice ...
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What "technically" happens when we chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo?
Chanting raises your personal vibration. Chanting vibrates on a high frequency so when you chant consistently, you vibrate on a higher frequency therefore the universe must mirror back to you what you ...
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What "technically" happens when we chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo?
On the physics side of things, yes, the vibrations do resonate with a frequency necessary to make the connection.
I am also a NMRK practitioner and the way that I see it:
The gohonzon is a ...
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Question about Nichiren Buddhism
Prior to Nichiren's time, reading the Lotus Sutra in its entirety was said to result in benefit, or good effects, in this life and the next. As part of Nichiren's efforts toward his goal of "saving ...
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What "technically" happens when we chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo?
This is not necessarily an answer, just adding to the questions, as I seek the answer myself.
For a testable hypothesis, we must clearly define what we intend to test for. I tend to find SGI members' ...
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Does Buddhism uphold/advocate the theory of Evolution [Nichirenism]?
According to one Buddhist sutta, life came to earth from ahassara brahma, a world of another galaxy -- you can read the details of this from the Aggañña Sutta.
According to Agganna sutta, life coming ...
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How does chanting work in Nichiren Buddhism?
Chanting the names of Buddha, Bodhisattvas or even as it happens the Title of the Lotus Sutra essentially works by being a powerful form of meditative mindful concentration. This is an easy straight ...
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Is Schopenhauer's "the Will" equivalent to "the Mystic Law"?
I know next to nothing about Schopenhauer but the Nichiren sect of Japanese Buddhism focus on the sutra popularly known as Lotus Sutra - the 妙法蓮華経 Myōhō Renge Kyō which is in turn from Chinese 妙法蓮華經; ...
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Does Buddhism Teach Nihilism?
I think the answer is probably "no" to the question about nihilism and Japan.
There's this story for example, where the protagonist, Dokuon, is Rinzai rōshi.
Nothing Exists
Yamaoka Tesshu, ...
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The Simultaneity of Cause and Effect
Traditional Standard 日蓮仏教/ Nichiren Buddhism at Minobu Yama c.1280AD is about refinement and being kindly and nice and is quite based on The Teachings of The Buddha, & Guidance of 日蓮/ Nichiren ...
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Question about Nichiren Buddhism
It says that starting and ending your day with a dedication to the lotus suttra is the equivalent of reading it, it still takes a whole day...
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Does Buddhism uphold/advocate the theory of Evolution [Nichirenism]?
Yes and no, I guess.
Darwin's theory was about the origin of species, a topic which is of very little concern to Buddhism. I think that On the Origin of Species talks about what Buddhists would call ...
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What Nichiren Buddhism says about rebirth and reincarnation?
Nichiren explains the Buddhist concepts of Twelve Linked Causation and Transmigration
On the Principle of Three Thousand Realms in a Single Moment of Life
"Question: What is the twelve-linked ...
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What is opinion of Nichiren Buddhism on the concept of a Creator or Supreme Being?
Three Wrong Views from the Flower Garland [Kegon or Avatamsaka] Sutra
"In this world there are three wrong viewpoints. If one clings to these viewpoints, then all things in this world are but to be ...
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What is opinion of Nichiren Buddhism on the concept of a Creator or Supreme Being?
Nichiren did not address the concept of a Creator or Supreme Being. Buddhists in general do not address this, basically because Shakyamuni, the founder of buddhism in India, did not address this even ...
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How is Nichiren Buddhism different from other branches of Buddhism?
Nichiren Buddhism differs from other schools of Buddhism in focusing on this world, and in its view that it is the only correct tradition. It also emphasises the importance of individuals taking ...
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Is vegetarianism compulsory/obligatory in Nicherin Buddhism?
There are three lineages of pratimoksha vows and none of them prohibits the eating of meat. Anyway, the transmission of the pratimoksha was lost in Japan, as attests the fact that the "monk" is ...
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How to increase my potential in daimoku?
Daimoku simply refers to the reciting of the title of the Heart Sutra. While this is a Tendai tradition, all Tendai monks would have been intimately familiar with the actual content of the Sutra. What ...
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Where in the Vimalakīrti Sutra is this stated?
In this translation, the text quoted below exists about 10% of the way through the text, towards the end of the first chapter ("1. Purification of the Buddha-Field"), a few paragraphs before ...
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What "technically" happens when we chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo?
I have been chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for 2 years. I do attend meetings (enjoy chanting in a group) for the social aspect. I was told to set a goal and then chant for that goal which I have been ...
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What "technically" happens when we chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo?
It's called placebo effect. You believe good things will happen and you focus on it so much that it ends up happening. It's not magic, just the power of belief/faith. On the other hand you could just ...
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How does chanting work in Nichiren Buddhism?
I believe that life is actually following a law that is universal and unavoidable just like gravity.When we chant we try to awaken ourselves to this ultimate law and synchronize our lives with the ...
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