Bücher von Sylvain Chamberlain

So, what is karma anyway? Karma is not cause and effect. Karma is not good or bad or indifferent. Karma is not retribution or a behavior or an act of will or bad habit or human vice. Karma is momentum.We live in a period of human development when very few of us are unfamiliar with the terminologies of science in our daily speech. I want to speak in terms familiar to as many of us as I can. So this writing will include many familiar concepts and terms in order to provide a working mental framework for insight into the nature of karma, Buddhist thought, and deeper understanding of the discussion of karma. I am not inventing some pseudo-science here to upset the academic pursuits of scientific discoveries, rather I am applying some attributes of scientific method to construct a logical mental exercise to grasp the profound significance of Buddhist thought and understanding of the "Engine of Life".

The Mandala is not the GoHonzon. The GoHonzon is our experience of Buddha. After more than 40 years of study, Sifu Sylvain Chamberlain lends his formidable insights into the confusion and the clear understanding of Nichiren's important and singular insights into the correct practice and methodology of Shakyamuni's teachings of attaining Buddha. This small collection of writings from the corpus of Nichiren will obviate for the reader, along with annotations from Sifu Sylvain, the true significance of the Nichiren mandala and its connection to GoHonzon.

The concept of the 3000 realms in a single thought moment of life is a profound mentation on the transmigration of the mind in its perceptions of reality. This collection of Buddhist writings span thousands of years of scholarship and historical research. The authors annotations lend elucidation to the lineage and clarity of the historical consistency in the service of the correct transmission of Shakyamuni's teachings over the millennia.

Nichiren left behind a large number of letters and treatises for the future propagation of Lotus Sutra Buddhism correctly transmitted and practiced by his scholarship and insights for our modern era. In this regard, the letters Nichiren wrote responding to questions from the women of his day in Medieval Japan are sometimes poetic in their tenderness and delicately supportive of the sometimes unique social constructs around the role and existence of women that in many ways persist to this day. Certainly, no person would argue that childbirth and the reproductive aspects of the female life would present challenges both personal and social today and as it was even more-so in 13th century Japan. I feel these Gosho make for elucidating reading and study for any practitioner of Buddhism regardless of sex. However, due to the segregation that persist to this day in various cultures as regards female inclusion, responsibilities, and especially imposed restrictions, I thought it of particular value to identify Nichiren's communications with the women of Buddhist practice and their value in practice with equal capacity and facility, with sentient minds and determined minds of awakening.With Love and Respect,SylvainNaMuMyohoRenGeKyo

This book of recitation for the Nichiren school of Buddhism lineage is the culmination of decades of research and refinement for the TLK (Threefold Lotus Kwoon) Quantum Life Buddhist practice of the Buddhist scholarship and teachings as learned and transmitted by the revered teacher and monk, Sylvain Chamberlain.