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World peace through dialogue.
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People who strive to create value with their lives.
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MOUNT FUJI
"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead
others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."
-- Thomas J. Watson
STUPIDITY..."welcome to hell on earth"
OUR AWESOME SOLAR SYSTEM!!
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NICHIREN DAISHONIN
(Founder of Nichiren Buddhism)
PERFECTION
WORLD PEACE
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All time favorite song: "Someday We'll All Be Free", Donny Hathaway.
Ghandi, Ikeda and King
Excerpt from 2002 PEACE PROPOSAL by Daisaku Ikeda (Honorary President of Soka Gakkai International):
Here's the link-- http://www.sgi.org/about/president/works/proposals.html
"It is the nature of human beings that the "self" can develop only through awareness of others; we grow into selfhood in their gaze. Intense spiritual interaction--including that marked by conflict(of ideals)--is essential if we are to grow, mature and become truly human.
Without this process, individuals cannot develop beyond egotistic, self-absorbed infantilism, a condition in polar contrast to Karl Jaspers' (1883-1969) insight about learning to talk with each other: "We want to accept the other, to try to see things from the other's point of view.... To get at the truth, an opponent is more important than one who agrees with us" (12). Self-centered narcissism is the cradle in which rancor and violence are nurtured.
In the darkness in which our civilization has been immersed since September 11, we sense an eerie absence, a spiritual landscape in which people are failing to recognize the humanity of the other. It is far from easy to engage in meaningful dialogue in this climate, for it is the consciousness of an internalized other within the self that gives life to dialogue. An inner, spiritual dialogue is a necessary prerequisite for any attempt at external dialogue. Unless such attempts are preceded and supported by inner dialogue, we may find ourselves reverting to mere monologue and one-sided assertions. In its most advanced state, the pathology of the absent other converts language and speech into just another form of violence".
The Ten Worlds or Human Life Tendencies
HELL...HUNGER
ANIMALITY...ANGERHUMANITY...RAPTURE
LEARNING...REALIZATION
BODHISATTVA...BUDDHAHOOD
Be Real Be You
Life inherently entails inner conflict.
Command the reins of struggle
Or else be ruled by it!
Do not claim to be virtuous
Simply because you avoid
Inner demons, your reality.
I am no apparition from the past.
No spook in the corner of your mind.
My presence is a reflection of your thoughts
Ask yourself this question:
Does true love require that you pretend
To be who you are not?
To be truly, absolutely free
And reach your infinite potential,
You must continually stand and fight.
Transform your fears into a strength
That carries you into infinity.
To become who you want to be
Don’t run away from who you are.
From your ever present friend,
Angela
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