Brandon Nicholson- Buddhist in America
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- čas přidán 8. 01. 2019
- Brandon Nicholson shares how his Buddhist practice fueled him to become the executive director of the “Hidden Genius Project,” an award winning youth program that connects young black males in the bay area with the skills and experiences they need to be successful entrepreneurs and technologists.
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Being a Buddhist has changed my life 🙏
The best choice in my life : to be Budhist . Soka is my second family.👏🙏🌷🍀🌱
To know Jesus as your Lord and Saviour is the best choice anyone can ever make. Budda did not die for us, he did not shed one drop of blood for us. JESUS on the other hand died on the CROSS for the whole world's Sins. He was resurrected by God our Father so that we could have a right to eternal life by Jesus's death on the cross. John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him would have everlasting life!!!
Budda can't touch this.
TRY JESUS TODAY WHILE THE BLOOD RUNS WARM IN YOUR VEINS!!!
@@myrtledorsey8873 don't destroy the comment section please
@@iamstrange4013 Ikeda died, but he didn't die for our sins like our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ did.
@@joeblowburg9677 😂christians joking every where😂.could you please tell me what is lkeda?
@@myrtledorsey8873 Since we now know, unlike our benighted ancestors, that Adam and Eve are a myth (human beings didn't originate when a man and woman magically popped up in the Middle East), therefore there was no "fall" and no original sin, so Jesus died for nothing.
It’s all right to feel what human beings feel, and we are not supposed to turn into rocks or trees when we practice Buddhism. Buddhas laugh, cry, dance, feel ecstasy - probably even feel despair. It is how we know the world.
It is how we live inside of our hearts and not dissociated from them.
Congratulations to Brandon Nicholson and to all our youth who benefit from his commitment to being of service!!!!
Hey Brandon! I remember when you were born! So proud of you, hope your mom is well. Shelley
I love to see a young black man encouraging and inspiring our young black boys to come out of poverty and oppression. It works better that way because see someone who looks like them succeeding against the odds to where they know that if this person who looks like them can do it, so can them. Brandon Nicholson is a true role model. My hat goes off to him.
Very inspiring, a Real Celebrity making Real Impact!!!
This is so absolutely fabulous!! Thank you, Brandon. Thank you, Pres.Ikeda for your courage. We are because of you!!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courage
Wow!, this story almost bring tears into my eyes with hope & dream for our future children in America!!!
Good to see someone who is living on a daily basis what he believes. Refreshing.
I remember your farther when he first received his gohonzon in Chicago I am deeply moved and encouraged by your success.
excellent young man I remember when you were only 2 ft tall. I remember attending a few meetings in your family home. I'm glad I did all those ymd activities because this is why I'm
BRANDON AS A MEMBER MYSELF, YOU HAVE GIVEN MY PRACTICE OF NAM MYO HO REN GE KYO SO MUCH MEANING TO ME AND MY OWN AWAKENING IN LIFE AND THE FUTURE I WILL HAVE!
I AM PRESENTLY LIVING IN OSAKA JAPAN DEALING WITH MANY STRUGGLES!!! BUT I WILL NEVER FOR GET THE VOW I MADE TO SO MANY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD AND THE WONDERFUL MOVEMENT OF KOSENRUFU!! THANK YOU FOR EMPOWERING THE YOUTH BACK OVER THERE IN CALIFORNIA AND CREATING HOPE FOR THOUSANDS OF WONDERFUL PEOPLE WITH THE HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT!!!! YOUR MOVEMENTS AND EFFORTS ARE GOLDEN!!! I AM CHANTING FOR YOU AS WELL!! ^_^!
SINCERELY,
VICTOR
What an inspiration! So powerful! ❤
Im Buddhist Buisnessman from India🙌🙏🇮🇳
Very inspired by the way you are living the Mentor's spirit and transforming the reality of so many youth. "I am because we are" 👍👍
All The power to you! NMRK! Greetings from Sweden.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden
Brandon, you are an exemplary young man. Thank you for sharing this experience and your work in the amazing Hidden Genius program. What a significant difference you are making in the lives of young African-American men. NMRK rocks!
Nam Myoho Renge kyo I love it love it love it Buddhism is the way to go Thank you Brandon Nicholson all of what your doing is Beautiful thank you so much.
Thank you for sharing your story Brandon. Wonderful actual proof of your excellent causes your are doing every day & impacting lives. NMRK.
I'm impressed at the practice and study of Buddhism. I have met so many people who are practitioners of Nichiren Daishonin Buddhism. They have this energy that is so cheerful and positive that can easily rub off on you.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nichiren_Buddhism
Getting goose bumps, reading about your journey. Hidden Project was your calling. Incredible work, enlightment, fortune to so many. Great work. I am an SGIA member
Wow I saw him on Facebook before! Never knew he was Buddhist
Thank you so much for sharing this amazing video. Brandon thank you for being real and inspiring.
Salve pratico il buddismo da tanto tempo, congratulazioni per quello che stai facendo per le persone. Auguro a tutti voi USA- SGI un grandioso futuro!!!
Really awesome Brandon! You are an amazing person. Thanks for all your efforts.
Thank you for your beautiful and uplifting story Brandon - and thank you even more for just being you. NMRK
NMRK! I love sharing Brandon's video to friends and family.
Thank you for sharing your story and encouraging others! 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for your efforts for Kosen-rufu.
Magnificent! Thank you, Brandon.
Buddhism is part of life .buddhism ,too good for good life.
Thank you Brandon for sharing your amazing experience! So very, very encouraging! NMRK!
Thank you Brandon.
Beautiful! Really big thanks!
NMRK NMRK NMRK IS THE WAY TO GO! 😍😍😍🤗🤗🤗🤩🤩🤩🤩
Thank you🎉🙏😀❣️
I'm so proud of you
thanks so much
Love this!
初めましてSGI USA
Brandon Nicholsonさん
私は日本人です
英語は解らないのですが
それでも、動画を拝見し涙が溢れて留まりませんでした
それは、悲しい涙では無く、嬉しい涙です。遠い場所に池田大作師匠を想う友がいる。それは、とても嬉しい事で感謝する事だからです
YOURE SO DOPE BRANDON -love byrd
That’s great, Life is a Research. Spend it wisely my friends
Nice that’s awesome! ☺️👏🏻👍🏻
Nice
I am because we are!
very good
I just met this guy at soka university in June 2024
sensei proud disciple...
NMRK 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
pretty cool
What is the significance of praying with beads
NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO 🙏🙏🙏
I am because we are
victory
Should be a Supertramp album
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Awesome and right on time. Great job myoho brother NMRK NMRK NMRK🙏🏽
Years ago I was lead to believe that to practice Nichiren’s Buddhism correctly, one had to attend meetings and belong to an organisation. Nowadays I’ve come to understand that anyone, regardless of whether they become a ‘member’ of a group or not, can benefit from their own personal practice.
The reason for this is that the Law myoho-renge-kyo represents the identity of what some scientists refer to as the ‘unified field of all consciousnesses’. In other words, it’s a sound vibration that is the essence of all of existence and non-existence, the ultimate creative force behind planets, stars, nebulae, people, animals, trees, fish, birds, and all phenomena, manifest or latent. All matter and intelligence are simply waves or ripples manifesting to and from this core source. Consciousness (enlightenment) is itself the true creator of everything that is, ever was and ever will be, right down to the minutest particles of dust, each being an individual ripple or wave. The big difference between chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and most other conventional prayers is that instead of depending on a ‘middleman’ to connect us to our state of enlightenment, we’re able to do it ourselves by tapping directly into it by way of self-produced sound vibration.
On the subject of ‘Who or What Is God?’, when we compare the concept of ‘God’, as a separate entity that is forever watching down on us, to Nichiren’s teachings, the true omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence of what most people call ‘God’ is our enlightenment, which exists nowhere else but within us.
When the disciples asked Jesus where the Kingdom of God is, didn’t he tell them that it was within them?
Some say that ‘God’ is an entity that can never be seen. I think that the vast amount of information that is constantly being conveyed via electromagnetic waves gives us proof of how an invisible state of ‘God’ could actually exist. It’s widely known that certain data being relayed by way of electromagnetic waves has the potential to help bring about extraordinary and powerful effects, including instant global awareness of something or mass emotional reaction. As well as many other things, it’s also common knowledge that these waves can easily be used to detonate a bomb or to even enable NASA to control the movements of a robot as far away as the Moon or Mars. However, none of this is possible without a receiver to decode the information that is being transmitted. Without the receiver, the information would remain impotent.
In a very similar way, it’s important for us to have our ‘receiver’ switched on so that we can activate a clear and precise understanding of our life, all other life and what we and all else that exists truly is. Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo helps us to achieve this because it allows us to reach into the core of our enlightenment and switch it on. That’s because the sound vibration of myoho-renge-kyo represents the combination of the three major laws that underlie all existence.
Myoho represents the Law of latency and manifestation (Nature) and consists of two alternating states. One state of myo is where everything in life that’s not obvious to us exists. This includes our stored memories when we’re not thinking about them, our hidden potential and inner emotions whenever they’re not being expressed, our desires, our fears, our wisdom, happiness, karma, and more importantly, our enlightenment. The other state, ho, is where everything in Life exists whenever it becomes obvious to us, such as when a thought pops up from within our memory, whenever we experience or express our emotions, or whenever a good or bad effect manifests from our karma. When anything becomes apparent, it simply means that it has come out of the state of ‘myo’ (dormancy/latency) and into a state of ho (manifestation). It’s simply the difference between consciousness and unconsciousness, being awake or asleep, or knowing and not knowing something.
The second law, renge, governs and controls the functions of myoho, ren meaning cause and ge meaning effect. The two laws of myoho and renge, both functions together simultaneously, as well as underlies all spiritual and physical existence.
The final and third part of the tri-combination, kyo, is what allows the law myoho to be able to integrate with the law renge. It’s the great, invisible thread of energy that fuses and connects together all Life and matter, as well as the past, present and future. It is often termed the Universal Law of Communication. Perhaps it could even be compared to the string theory that some scientists now suspect exists.
Just as our body cells, thoughts, feelings and all else are constantly fluctuating within us, everything in the world around us and beyond is also in a constant state of flux, in accordance with these three laws. In fact, more things are going back and forth between the two states of myo and ho in a single moment than it would ever be possible for us to calculate or describe. And it doesn't matter how big or small, important or trivial that anything may appear to be, everything that’s ever existed in the past exists now or will exist in the future, exists only because of the workings of myoho-renge-kyo.
These three laws are also the basis of the four fundamental forces and if they didn't function, neither we nor anything else could go on existing. Simply put, all forms of existence, including the seasons, day and night, birth, death and so on, are all moving forward in an ongoing flow of continuation, rhythmically reverting back and forth between the two universal states of myo and ho in absolute accordance with renge and by way of kyo. Even stars are dying and being reborn in accordance with the workings of what the combination myoho-renge-kyo represents.
Nam, or Namu, on the other hand, is a password or a key; it allows us to reach deep into our life and fuse with or become one with myoho-renge-kyo. On a more personal basis, nothing ever happens by chance or coincidence, it’s the causes that we’ve made in our past, or are presently making, that determine how these laws function uniquely in each of our lives from moment to moment, as well in our environment. By facing east, in harmony with the direction that the Earth is turning, and rhythmically chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for a minimum of ten minutes daily, anyone can experience actual proof of its positive effects in their life.
In so doing, we can pierce through even the thickest layers of our karma and activate our Buddha Nature (enlightened state). We’re then able to summon forth the wisdom needed to challenge, overcome and change our negative circumstances into positive ones. It brings forth the wisdom that can free us from the ignorance and stupidity that is preventing us from accepting and being proud of the person that we truly are, regardless of our race, colour, gender or sexual preference. We are also able to see and understand our circumstances and environment more clearly, as well as attract and connect with any needed external beneficial forces and situations.
Actual proof soon becomes apparent to anyone who chants the words Nam-myoho-renge-kyo on a regular daily basis. Everything is subject to the law of Cause and Effect, so the strength of the result from chanting depends on dedication, sincerity and determination. To explain it more simply, the difference could be compared to making a sound on a piano, creating a melody, or producing a song and so on.
NB: There are frightening, disturbing sounds and there are tranquil and relaxing sounds. It's the emotional result from any sound that can trigger off a mood or even instantly change one. When chanting Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo each day you are producing a sound vibration that is the password to your true inner-self - this soon becomes apparent when you start reassessing your views on various things, such as your fears and desires etc. The important way to get the best result when chanting is not to see things in a conventional way (difficult to achieve but can be done), rather than reaching out to an external source, you need to reach into your own life and bring your needs and desires to fruition from within, including any help that you may need. Think of it as a seed within you that you are bringing sunshine and water to in order for it to grow, blossom and bring forth fruit or flowers. It’s important to understand that everything that we need in life, all the answers and potential to achieve our dreams, already exist within us.
czcams.com/video/6CZ0XJqWRr4/video.html OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN sings about Nam-myoho-renge-kyo
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tyamada21 incredibly Lucid explanation thank you
Without practice for others nobody can understand the right spirit of this practice
@@mrinalbose5452 How do u mean mrinal???
@@tyamada21 Why just practice on your own when you can help other people become happy too? (purpose of the organization) :)
@@iLoveToBeM3 Arlyn, there were no Nichiren organisations when Nichiren was here and taught the Law and yet many people he taught to chant NMRK still received actual proof in their daily lives. In other words, one can still help other people just by teaching them the Law because that's where pure power is - in the Law. When I first learned about NMRK almost 50 years ago thanks to the NS/SGI, something that I will always be grateful for, it was a very different organisation to what it's become today. The main emphasis was on NMRK and Dai Gohonzon. I witnessed the changes and the overwhelming propagation and idolisation of Daisaku Ikeda and the leadership in general. I also witnessed the added politics that gradually entered into the organisation and how future converts were fooled into believing that those policies etc were and are part of what Nichiren taught. I've heard recently that members are encouraged not to read the Gosho but to read and follow what the leaders and priests say about them. While I was a member of the organisation I introduced people into the organisation all around the world during my many travels. For the past 28 years since leaving the organisation, I have continued to chant each day and introduce thousands of people to NMRK. It's not about the purpose of an organisation but the purpose of each individual Arlyn. I encourage you to read a Gosho titled Letter to Niike:
There are two kinds of wisdom, correct and perverse. No matter how wise a person may appear, if his assertions are warped you should not listen to him. Nor should you follow priests merely because they are venerable or of high rank. But if a person has the wisdom to know the true meaning of the Lotus Sutra, no matter how lowly he may appear, pay respect to him and make offerings to him as though he were a living Thus Come One.
In another Gosho Nichiren encourages us to chant NMRK and to teach it to others to the best of our ability - he says nothing about needing to belong to a future organisation in order to do this. The reason being is, the power is in the LAW and not in the person. So, rather than making incorrect and misleading judgements on others who choose to chant and spread the Law independently (adding bad karma to your life), I encourage you to chant to manifest your own independent wisdom to understand the truth that awaits within you - study the actual Gosho would be a wise move.
Nmhrgk 🙏🙏🙏
ขอให้น้องๆยุวชนชายจงขัดเกล่าชีวิตเพื่อความสุขของมวลมนุษย์ชาติขอให้ยุวชนทั่วโลกร้อยก้าวสิบสองประเทศจงเผ่ยแผ่พุทธรรม์อย่างมีความสุขตลอดไปคะ
John 3:-16
It's the best illegal. I'll be happy with you
Una canción para alentarnos la gran relación inseparable de maestro y discípulo .
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