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Thank you very much !Is a way to happiness !We have the same experience with my best friend and shakubuku.We feel that happiness took over our lives !
lets enjoy our practice!Serious daimoku >Laughing daimoku Is daimoku from our heart !SOMETHING DEEP IN OUR LIVES WANTS TO CELEBRATE !
GREAT EXPERIENCE
HAPPY NEW YEAR !
MARGA
What a great blog! Thank you all.
Just one more thought on laughing while chanting.....I used to take care of a young man [20 years old] who had severe mental problems. He loved me to come to work at the group home and chant for him. He really liked it. One day I got permission from his mother and the group home to take him to a YMD activity several hundred miles from home. We SGI members all got on the bus. So did this young man. No smiling, no laughing....So we attended the YMD activity. On the way home the whole bus was doing gongyo and chanting. All of a sudden this young man just let out a howl of a laugh. He continued to laugh and laugh. When we got home, I relayed the story of him laughing. His mother and the group home was very surprised....he had never laughed out loud in his whole life. He just felt sooooo good from the activity and daimoku that he couldn't do anything else but respond and laugh, he just felt good. So yes, we should be serious when doing gongyo and chanting, however we should never loose our sense of happiness and sharing, even while doing gongyo.
Oh, thank you all so very much for sharing the really funny times while chanting....I think anyone who has chanted for a long period of time has experienced the tremendous joy of chanting and just can't keep it inside anymore. My sister who has since passed, was chanting with me one day and we just couldn't keep from giggling. She dubbed it the Gongyo Giggles. From then on whenever we got to feeling sooooo good we would remember that day and start all over again...giggling....
Thank you for the reminder......and love to you all
Have a great day and a better holiday season.
Judy Yuuki
Your laughing story made me think back when I was in 5th grade....My Mother shakubukued her best friend and was teaching her gongyo and they were chanting daimoku. My Mother's friend kept looking to see if the incense was almost done so they would be finished....they would laugh every time she would peek. As I look back now I think what a joyful time it was for them and what true friendship after all these years. :o)
Thank you for sharing about Laughing Daimoku. My Sis and I are very close, and we laugh spontaneously when we are together to tears about anything that reminisce. I remember one special time, we too, were chanting and somehow we burst out laughing, as we continued to chant. At first I felt I was disrespecting the Gohonzon. As we continued to chant to our heart's content, I realized what a BENEFIT to be chanting with my Sis. What better happiness to be working for Kosen Rufu together...it was a special bonding time from a very close relationship already. Thanks for your experience!
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