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Yeah but Jainism is to be as offenscive as I possibly can "for *******".Hinduism dosn't make sense to me, with its idea's about gods.Buddhism, is too peaceful for me and its idea's of the gods.Sikhism? One God.

Just interested, I like the feel of it, maybe the idea of obtaining enlightenment, which I don't get with my faith now.

Thats always been a problem with me, you know with not having a income and owning half a library of books already.

Mind if I ask where you are learning about Buddhism?

Looking after the kids, cooking and stuff.

Today?

In general, Nichiren Buddhists maintain a home altar. There are prescribed daily practices, in addition to attending services at a temple or sangha when one can do so. So the majority of one's practice takes place at home by defauklt anyway.

If there is no temple near where you live, then there are some ways to address the problem. My temple (Myoken Temple in Houston, Texas) and a couple of others webcast services regularly. Several of our ministers are willing to work long-distance with students via email, phone, Skype, Tokbox and so forth. Links for webcasts, calendars and contact information for ministers will be on each temple's website.

We try to hold at least one nationwide week-long retreat each year. Some of our temples also sponsor weekend retreats, or day-long mini-retreats; these offer an opportunity for people to get a wide variety of temple experiences compressed into a short duration, making a relatively long trip as worthwhile as possible.

Namaste, Engyo

For Nichiren Buddhism, the best introductory book (short, easy to read, and clear) would be Awakening to the Lotus. Amazon also lists it, but they want more for used copies than the NBIC center does for a new one.

That said, I would still recommend finding a temple or sangha and visiting to get a feel for the practice. It is often quite different than what most people are expecting from Buddhism. Here is a link to the locations of temples in North America for my school, Nichiren Shu. Here is another link for most Lotus Sutra schools in North America.

Please let me know if I can provide any other information......

Namaste, Engyo Mike Barrett

That looks delicious, it is stained with the blood of evil vampires, must devour it!

I meant to say arnt. Yes Stake is a type of beef.

I can't eat stakes My teeth are in the correct positions.

so I can get surgeory on my jaw, so I can eat apples and stake easily and such.

I am good, I have an test for my jaw tommorow, pretty excited.

He is fine and most holy.

Chat now? XD

9 my time xD

Damn! You're offline!
I missed you by a few minutes.

Chat?

Chat, chat.

Wanna chat?