Buddhability Short: How to Chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

Buddhability

SGI-USA

Health & Fitness, Self-help, Self-care, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Buddhism

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🗓️ 30 August 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In today’s Short, we’re breaking down the Buddhist mantra Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and explaining how to chant it step-by-step. By the end of the episode, you should feel confident trying it out yourself!

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0:00.0	From SGI USA, I'm Cassidy Bradford and this is Budability.
0:07.7	The weekly series where I talk with Buddhists from all walks of life about the power we each have to change our lives and the world around us.
0:19.4	We live in a constantly changing world with unending challenges.
0:23.6	You're unemployed. You haven't spoken to your sibling in weeks. Every person you date is a total dud.
0:31.6	Or maybe on the surface, everything looks fine, but internally something's off off. You're unhappy even with a good
0:39.9	paying job. You find yourself feeling alone, even with great friends. Whatever it is, we might think
0:47.3	our problems are unchanging facts of life. But Buddhism teaches that we have everything we need to
0:53.2	overcome life's problems.
0:55.5	We just need to tap into the reserves of limitless courage, wisdom, and compassion inherent in life.
1:02.2	We do that by chanting Nam-myoh-ho-Renge-kyo.
1:06.8	On this show, we refer to this capacity as bootability,
1:15.6	which is an ability we all have within ourselves to change our lives. The reality is, we're already a Buddha, but it's only as we have obstacles, stress, and our own messiness that we forget.
1:24.6	We chant Nam-myohon-Renge-kyo to remember that we already have everything we forget. We chant Nammyohon Renge Kyo to remember that we already have
1:30.1	everything we need. But this is much deeper than positive thinking. Budability is grounded in the
1:36.8	Lotus Sutra, which was taught by the historical Buddha, Shakamuni, or Siddhartha as he's sometimes
1:42.5	known. This teaching was revolutionary and that it was
1:46.1	the first to say that all people, regardless of things like gender and social class, equally possess
1:51.8	the potential for buddhahood and are worthy of respect. This teaching says that we don't need to
1:57.6	practice for lifetime after lifetime to attain enlightenment. Rather, enlightenment is a state of life that we don't need to practice for lifetime after lifetime to attain enlightenment. Rather,
2:02.4	enlightenment is a state of life that we can bring out in any moment. This teaching was developed
2:08.3	into an accessible daily practice by the 13th century Buddhist teacher, Nietzschean. This powerful
2:15.6	daily practice for the Lotus Sutra is chanting the title,
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