TOP FIFTEEN REASONS TO CHANT NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO

TOP FIFTEEN REASONS TO CHANT NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO IN 2015 ( by Linda Segall Anable )
A bit of inspiration for the new year.
1. Buddhism is not a fear-based,controlling religion. It’s a lovebased,empowering way of life.
2. No one can save you but yourself –in concert with the Gohonzon.
3. Even though you’re perfect just the way you are, by chanting you will continue to achieve higher levels of perfection, as the natural outcome of increased happiness.
4. Yeah, life is eternal and you have all the so-called “time” in the universe,but do you really want to come back in your next life with the same karmic agenda?
5. To get real benefits – not lower-ego benefits. Lower-ego benefits (I have something that makes me better than you) are not benefits at all.
There is no ego in enlightenment.All prayers to the Gohonzon should have a higher purpose.
6. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is not the magic phrase you say to make something happen. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is creation itself, and
whatever manifestation you attach to it becomes reality.
7. Chanting connects you with nature,with whom we are all indisputably and intricately a part. For example trees understand Nam-myohorenge-kyo – perhaps better than you and I do.
8. Sometime in the infinite past you promised to come to this world in this Saha era and chant daimoku, in order to raise human consciousness and bring about world peace. It’s a bad cause to renege on a promise.
9. The protection of the shoten zenjin – the benevolent forces in the universe summoned by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo – gives you
a warm feeling of security in this crazy world.
10. The more you can feel the depths of pain, the more you can transform that pain into joy and ecstasy with the magic of daimoku.
11. Buddhist practice puts you in a higher life-condition and a high life condition is really the only benefit that has lasting value.
12. Every cell of your body responds to your commands, so you can heal yourself by sending the golden light of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo to every cell in your body.
13. Power ends where fear begins, and Sensei said that faith is to fear nothing.
14. So you can awaken to a higher purpose in life, rather than simply playing out the clock.
15. Your life and your happiness are essential to the attainment of kosen-rufu. You are here for a reason.