Breakthrough weekend ...


Last weekend I went to a Buddhist conference with 18 of my other Buddhamates to Vashon Island and it was incredible. With only a few minor bumps, things went pretty smooth in terms of organizing that many people for a road trip. It was the most joyous two and half days.

There was a Women's division leader, Linda Johnson from the US that spoke and the thing she said about faith really touched me. As I paraphrase - she mentioned that we have all the unlimited power within us to achieve whatever we want. Why we suffer is that we don't believe that. We are deluded with a negative belief which causes us to do things that aren't the best for us and that chanting Nam myoho Renge Kyo, this deep phrase, that turns on our Buddhahood or most enlightened self is the key and action to changing that negative belief. As for us Buddhists who do chant, we know it works which is why we still do it. But it's nice to hear it confirmed every now and then but when she said it in that moment - it connected to the heart of every single person in that room and created this amazing shared experience that I think we will all take with us for the rest of our lives. It also worked so well in that moment because throughout the weekend, we studied a lot about the concepts of having a mentor and really being to connected to him In our practice our mentor is Daisaku Ikeda. We really study about the spirit of what he stands for and it's not a guru or god worship thing which is different from a mentor. Here's a great site with some amazing guidance and quotes.

Daisaku Ikeda quotes


So I've been making efforts to really believe that we all have the unlimited potential within to solve our problems and achieve anything we want. My chanting in the past couple of days has been amazing and I am starting to see that potential and awakening it even deeper in my life.


For example - Monday nite to Tuesday my laptop, which I'm writing this blog from was really acting up. It kept on turning off every 3 minutes and I didn't know why. I started panicking a bit because it has 2.5 years worth of material. I had a backup but doing a recover is still a hassle and I was thinking do I need to get a new laptop now? Instead I chanted , came from a calm place - googled on my desktop downstairs and found the answer that there could be some dust inside my laptop. That felt like the right answer, but we don't normally think of that ... so I got my air canister and VOILA ... happy laptop. I know that my seem small but to have to buy another laptop and possibly lose all the work I had on that computer - is valuable to me. So I felt that I really did have the answer or the capability to find it.




















We have the unlimited potential within us to solve our problems and achieve anything we want. What causes us suffering is that we refuse to believe it. Sounds good to me!