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[Derwin Lycan Sherwood]

Shin Yatomi, a writer and SGI member of Sokka Spirit says, "Violence arises from a will to harm and self defense from a will to protect, although both employ physical force as a means. It is necessary to look inward to see one's true motive..."
What do you think? The physical aspect of this is what trips me up a bit because it all seems so violent (physical self defense included) but we can't just sit idly by and be beaten into submission or allow our family to be broken down... Then too, if our country is attacked, what should a government do to defend/ retaliate/ whatever... Looking at the inner self can indeed help us see what our intent is and in turn help the world see it, but violence seems to me to still be violence and 2 wrongs don't really make it right... right...?
What are your thoughts everyone!?
~DS

 

[Derwin Lycan Sherwood]

 

----- Forwarded Message ----
From: Bill Van Every <wiggy...@gmail.com>
To: Derwin Lycan Sherwood <derwins...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wed, June 9, 2010 7:30:24 AM
Subject: Re: teaching

latent karma(cause and effect) attracts violence to our being in the form of manifest cause and effect experienced as fear or anger or happiness and so on, etc, for a Buddhist, there is always a reason for everything - cause and effect, Karma. I was reading last night about a man who had spent his whole life engaged in violent activity, he discovered Nam-myho-renge(cause and effect)-Kyo and began to sporadically chant. Things did not change for him immediately. he still attracted negative physical and verbal conflicts. One night on the subway, a group of punks confronted him, he new karate and was capable of at least putting up a fight. Instead it dawned on him to chant Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo to himself. Amazingly, the punks defused their aggression and moved on to the next car. Why? In a moment, he summoned up his Buddha nature and changed his karmatic energy. It sounds wild, but the four type of cause and effect creating our karma: latent cause, manifest cause, latent effect, manifest effect along with which particular world we happen to be living in at any given moment, can result in amazingly wonderful and equally disastrous experiences. This is what I was reading anyway. All very interesting.

http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=2249 (have not read through this yet, but this is Nichirin's exact description of at least some of what I am talking about)


oh, and when Tatomi speaks of 'will' I assume he is referring to our free will, but this is effected by our inner make up, our character which is comprised of our non-substantial and substantial self. we chant nam-myho-renge-kyo in part to purify our first eight consciousnesses, which then directs us to our ninth -  buddhahood, can you imagine the buddha getting in a physical altercation over anything?

respectfully

bve

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[Derwin Lycan Sherwood]

Yes! I love that story! I especially like the total non-violence with the best outcome!
much love bro!

 

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From: Bill Van Every <wiggy...@gmail.com>
To: Derwin Lycan Sherwood <derwins...@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wed, June 9, 2010 7:30:24 AM
Subject: Re: teaching

latent karma(cause and effect) attracts violence to our being in the form of manifest cause and effect experienced as fear or anger or happiness and so on, etc, for a Buddhist, there is always a reason for everything - cause and effect, Karma. I was reading last night about a man who had spent his whole life engaged in violent activity, he discovered Nam-myho-renge(cause and effect)-Kyo and began to sporadically chant. Things did not change for him immediately. he still attracted negative physical and verbal conflicts. One night on the subway, a group of punks confronted him, he new karate and was capable of at least putting up a fight. Instead it dawned on him to chant Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo to himself. Amazingly, the punks defused their aggression and moved on to the next car. Why? In a moment, he summoned up his Buddha nature and changed his karmatic energy. It sounds wild, but the four type of cause and effect creating our karma: latent cause, manifest cause, latent effect, manifest effect along with which particular world we happen to be living in at any given moment, can result in amazingly wonderful and equally disastrous experiences. This is what I was reading anyway. All very interesting.

http://www.sgilibrary.org/search_dict.php?id=2249 (have not read through this yet, but this is Nichirin's exact description of at least some of what I am talking about)


oh, and when Tatomi speaks of 'will' I assume he is referring to our free will, but this is effected by our inner make up, our character which is comprised of our non-substantial and substantial self. we chant nam-myho-renge-kyo in part to purify our first eight consciousnesses, which then directs us to our ninth -  buddhahood, can you imagine the buddha getting in a physical altercation over anything?

respectfully

bve

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Derwin Lycan Sherwood <derwins...@yahoo.com> wrote:

[Bill Van Every]

peace, see you soon