Lotuschef in Chance Meeting 巧遇

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Dear all, look at the photos carefully please.
I am the one that is wearing very little! :)
O! Weather-man said 9 degree Celsius!

Its a real un-explainable kind of meeting with this VM!
I met her pretty often too
The last round she took business class on the HSR and walk to the cabin I was sitting and gave me a cup of tea.

Anyway, today she came up to me outside Starbucks and invited me to have coffee with her.
I asked her, who she is.
:) she said I am Jing Xiang Shang Shi.

She was all wrapped up with spectacles too.
When she took off her cap & I had a closer look, I recognize her!

Hahaha!

Told her I need to watch fellow students' stuff and also just had breakfast so asked her to carry on without me.

I continued to sit cross-legged looking at videos on my mobile.

Her assistant, the tall lanky fashi, Lian Ying, came over and talked to me for a while and he asked why I wear so little, don't I feel cold?

I said I am warm enough and said our SZ also the same, no need much warmth clothing in winter.:)

At some time during the chat,, he drew out a round biscuit and gave to me.
Then Em appeared before he can hand over the biscuit.
So he drew another from his pockets!

Then Ke followed by Shan & Sry came back, he drew out 3 and emptied his pockets!
He said: he bought these from HSR station in Taichung, only have 3 pcs all give to us!

I told the girls to greet him and told him the girls came for Pusa-jie ceremony.
He said: O! Pusa jie has strict disciplines and they are in for big troubles!

I chided him saying: big brother, please don't frighten the girls la.

He then left and after a while, then VM came out and sat down next to me.
She said I am real something as her fashi praised me for being able to keep warm in cold weather, whereas they both wore long sleeves yellow turtle-necks!
Also has neck scarf as well!

She said he don't praise people much and it's a rare matter for him to praise anyone.

She started to tell me I can do Wen-shi or consultation already with my Heavenly Eye!
[I actually jokingly said: Hah? Heavenly Eyes! :)]

I told her I discourage wen-shi n charges $300 for 20mins session.
However, I will teach them how to help themselves by cultivation, which is free of charge.

She then remembered she heard something like this in Malaysia.
She said: O! so you are the one they are talking about!

She told us that her yidam is thousand arms n eyes avalokitesvara
Had a long chat n she got my mobile and said she coming to SG this April!

We also chatted about our interest in visiting her temple in Japan
She said to contact her fashi n can arrange
Her fashi came n join us again.

hahaha!

She sort of scanned me and then asked her fashi to do so,
then after the fashi reported what he glean, 
she came out and have a closer look and start asking me questions n continue the scan!!!

interesting encounter!!

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TT: lol, both of you, good friends of fudo-sama :D

oh 1000 hands 1000 eyes avalokiteshvara, ya ya no wonder i remember some yearssss ago when she was invited to Dayin temple to conduct usnisawijaya puja, she spread her hands forming the movement like 1000 arms :)

wah you're famous hor! everyone knows you hahahaha.

her fashi was the old man with doctorate degree from harvard, that time he asked whether he should speak in english or chinese; unfortunately the crowd asked him to be in chinese and i've got no chance to converse with him.
he spoke about the ksitigarbha sutra project or something like that.

and 2 years ago GM sent you, a fully-able english speaking golden haired boy to me lol.

so, next time we go to japan, we can visit her temple in osaka, it's one of a kind temple too.
i didn't have the chance to visit it last time either, but looking at the photos when GM visited there, it is a very nice environment.

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PK: Ya! the fashi is a learned person and he needs a dose of Craziness or madness from moir lol!
hahaha!
at least he still can joke with us! :)

but he very protective of VM & really take care of her well
to him, being 2nd doesn't matter an iota!

he learned mandarin even though he is japanese.
so he speaks english well too in this case lol, being from Harvard!

Our Tok Chef is Haward n not True Harvard!!!
hahaha!

Ya. Acala is the link! :)
the thing is they come look at me in turns, very cute lol

1st VM then Fashi, then VM just sat down n chat, then the fashi also come and stay and chat too!

This fashi don't like to CHAT!
Man of very few words too! :)
Me n the girls are indeed very likable hor!
hahaha!

but its like SZ giving me a message : You can do wenshi, with your heavenly eye ........
that part is a bit spooky as I thought I hide "my eyes" well!
hehe

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TT: hehehe, ya hor.
from the same avalokiteshvara who perhaps also taught her the heavenly eyes.
eyes are everywhere :)

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PK: ya. avalokitesvara taught me how to concentrate & beam light from one of the eyes.
we have plenty of eyes too and most don't know even after SZ said: whole body full of eyes!

Anyway, I told her I don't want to be like SZ, attending to about 3 to 4 hundreds "wen-shi" a day.
Waste time too as most don't go follow your advice, but go ask around some more!!!

Some expect immediate solution to their problems or Become rich instantly!!!


Cheers all.


Om Guru Lian Sheng Siddhi Hom
Lama Lotuschef

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An interesting read – The Real Japanese Monk’s Guide To Buddhism In Japan [1]

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Saichou (Dengyou Daishi)

This is an interesting and pretty informative article I found through Lotus NN.
Read and Enjoy! :)

The Real Japanese Monk’s Guide To Buddhism In Japan

February 6, 2014 by Mami 56 Comments

Differences among Japanese Buddhism Sects

According to the “Japan Statistical Yearbook 2014” conducted by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in 2013, around 84.7 million people in Japan are considered to be “Buddhists” regardless of whether or not they are considered “practicing Buddhists.” There are also many different Buddhist sects, too many to learn in just one article. There are 59 main sects that are affiliated with the Japan Buddhist Federation and that’s still not all of them. I can’t introduce them all, so instead I’ll focus on the 13 major sects and their history in Japan.

To help you along on this journey, I made a “Buddhaful” flow chart that you can use to follow along. There are a lot of sects and it becomes confusing, and this helped me a lot (and I hope it helps you too!)

Nara Buddhism – Nanto-Six-Sects

Todaiji Temple, photo by David Offf

When the period changed from Asuka (550-710) to Nara (710 – 794), which occurred due to the capital getting moved from Asuka to Nara, aka Nanto, Japanese ambassadors called Kentoushi brought back academic Buddhism from China (the Tang Dynasty) and people studied it in the temples in Nara. 

This academic Buddhism was classified and divided into six sects called The Six Sects of Nanto (南都六宗/なんとりくしゅう):

– 三論 (Sanron) : Three Treatises 

– 成実 (Joujitsu) : Establishment of truth 

– 倶舎 (Kusha) : Study of the Abhidharma-kosha 

– 法相 (Hossou) : Mind-Only

– 華厳 (Kegon) : Flower-Garland 

– 律 (Ritsu) : Rules of Discipline

Hossou-Sect

Among these six sects, Hossou (a.k.a. Yuishiki) was the sect that studied Yogacara, which originated in India. It still remains with two of the main temples, Koufukuji and Yakushiji, and has maintained the practice of the tradition even into modern times. 

In this sect, Buddhists delve into their own minds and into the transient world where everything is changing and there are no permanent things. 

Unlike the principles of Sokushin-Joubutsu (即身成仏) in Esoteric Buddhism, which means attaining enlightenment while still in the flesh, Hossou-sect established the theory that there are distinctions among people and that not everyone is so easily able to become a Buddha. 

Actually, the Hossou and Kusha sects are known for having very complicated teachings and there is even a phrase: “3 years for Hossou, 8 years for Kusha”.

Kegon-Sect

Kegon, is a sect dedicated to the study of the Avatamsaka Sutras and its main temple is the famous Todaiji. 

Within the temple, the giant Buddha statue of Vairocana, who is the Resplendent Buddha in the Avatamska, was built in 752 AD. Emperor Shomu also established temples called Kokubunji within the provinces for the spiritual protection of Japan. Todaiji temple was the Kokubunji of the Yamato Province (present-day Nara Prefecture) and was also placed as the head of Kokubunji temples in Japan.

In Kegon, there is a phrase: “One equals many and many equals one” 

They preach to attain the integration of ideas with the polar opposite of those ideas. 

As you could probably tell by the last sentence, this sect is very philosophical.

Ritsu-Sect

In early 754, a Chinese monk named Jianzhen (688-763 AD), a.k.a Ganjin, traveled to Nara, Japan. 

He built Toushoudaiji temple in Nara and preached the Ritsu-sect form of Buddhism, which transmits and studies Buddhist Vinaya precepts. 

Ganjin is said to have conducted Jukai (授戒), which means “the handing down of the precepts”, and this was done to more than 40,000 people.

Overall, the main feature of Nara Buddhism is that it supported the idea of national protection.

Heian Buddhism – Heian-Two-Sects

Emperor Konin (770-781 AD) didn’t like how groups of Buddhists could intervene in governmental affairs, so after his son became Emperor Kanmu (781 – 806 AD), he moved the capital from Heijoukyou to Heiankyou in 794 AD and left the Nara Buddhists in the older capital. 

Because of that, there was a blank period of religion in Heiankyou and it became an opportunity to foster new types of Buddhism: the Tendai-sect and the Shingon-sect. 

In 804 AD, 10 years after the naming of the new capital, Saichou, who later founded the Tendai-sect, and Kuukai, who later founded the Shingon-sect, went to China to study as Kentoushi ambassadors. 

These two sects are called the “Heian-two-sects” (平安二宗/へいあんにしゅう).

Saichou: Tendai-Sect

Mount Hiei, photo by Casek

Saichou founded the Japanese Tendai-sect of Buddhism in Japan.

 At the age of 19, he received Gusokukai, which is a higher form of ordination at Todaiji temple, and became an official monk. However, just 3 months later, he left for Mt. Hiei, which had been a mountain untouched by man up to this point, and this is where he built a quiet thatched hut that he called Ichijoshikanin temple, which went on to became Enryakuji temple. 

While there, Saichou made a vow that he wouldn’t climb down the mountain, nor preach to the people, until being purified of the six sources (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind) of emotional confusion (joy, anger, sorrow, pleasure, love, and hatred). 

It ended up taking him 12 years to complete this training in the mountain. 

This style of training still remains and is practiced in Joudoin temple, the West pagoda on Mt. Hiei.

Saichou’s training and studies were even met with full recognition from the emperor and he was chosen as a priest to study abroad at the age of 35. 

In China (Tang), he studied Tendai-sect Buddhism for 8 months and after returning to Japan, he founded the Tendai-sect of Japanese Buddhism.

When he started the Japanese Tendai-sect, he began by reevaluating Nara Buddhism and he realized some problems. 

His three main criticisms were the following:
Nara Buddhism was not practical but mainly theoretical and its practice had just become a formality.
Nara Buddhism was connected with political powers.
In Nara Buddhism, not every person could attain enlightenment and enter Nirvana.

So, Saichou criticized the Six Sects of Nanto Buddhism that had mainly studied doctrines for the protection of the nation. 

Furthermore, based on the Lotus Sutra, he insisted on sharing the belief of “Issaishujoushitsuubusshou” (一切衆生悉有仏性), which means that everyone has the nature of Buddha within them and can reach Nirvana, whereas Nara Buddhism contended that not everyone is able to do so. 

In this way, Saichou attempted to disassociate himself from Nara Buddhism, but maintained that if people wanted to become official monks, they still had to receive the precepts in Todaiji temple like Saichou himself did. 

Then, Saichou made an appeal to the Imperial court of Japan in order to establish the Ordination Hall for Buddhist Confirmation founded on the Tendai-sect form of Buddhism. 

He explained to the competent authorities that the Tendai-sect could nurture purified Buddhist monks through the training on Mt. Hiei and that doing so would produce the sought after protection for the nation.

Saichou, however, did not live long enough to see this realized, nor was it long after his death that it was realized. An imperial sanction concerning the ordination hall was granted 7 days following Saichou’s death and the Tendai-sect was formally established, both in name and substance, as an independent religious sect.

The teachings of Saichou and the “Inextinquishable Dharma Light”, have been passed down to modern day monks at Mt. Hiei.

Saichou’s famous quote can be seen all over Mt. Hiei: “A person who lights up a single corner is truly a national treasure” (from “The Regulations for Students of the Mountain School”).

Saichou explanation of his quote was that “everyone who makes an effort is an all-important national treasure no matter where they are or what their profession”. 

His teachings contain many elements linked to Shingon Esoteric Buddhism, Zen, and the teachings of the Joudo-sect, and thus Mt.Hiei functioned as a Buddhism university. 

The Kamakura Buddhism founders that came later, such as Hounen, Shinran, Dougen, and Nichiren, all learned here and eventually set off in search of their own precepts.

*As a side note, Saichou was very strict about drinking alcohol. Someone who drank alcohol was never allowed to be a monk.

[to be continued]

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