Spirituality

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is like the roar of a lion. What sickness can therefore be an obstacle? Reply to Kyo’o, Nichiren Daishonin.

As a young child I used to try and ‘feel’ myself inside my body. There was a sense that my body and “Me” were two different entities. being incarnate has mostly been a shock this time around. A feeling of “WTF am I doing here?” has pervaded my entire life, apart from a small window of time.

My mum used to say ” You only have one life and then you die” or words to that effect. I didn’t believe that this is all there is, which led me eventually to Nichiren Buddhism as I could easily accept the belief that life is eternal. My mum was correct in the sense that we have only one life as the person we are now, so yes, we should live it to the full. We will I believe be incarnate for eternity in some form or another.

Age 13, my first boyfriend Iain, died suddenly. My step-sister blurted it out on my arrival at my Dad’s house. This was a spiritual awakening in a sense as I decided that as Iain had died so young, I would live my life more fully.

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