The Search For Enlightenment

There are times when you need to take a pace backwards, re-evaluate your situation and start to rebuild from a position of strength.

On my path to enlightenment, my epiphany moment came whilst I was reading, or rather listening to, The Buddha, Geoff and Me by Edward Canfor-Dumas. Ok, so it’s a story, it’s not a text book or a definitive work of Buddhist teaching, but it changed my life, forever.

I have many books on Buddhism, in fact most of my limited library consists of them. Nichiren’s writings, Daisaku Ikeda’s writings, study materials and dictionaries, that help me learn the finer details about my religion. But the fact is that, for me, none of them strike that unique chord that brought me to Nichiren Buddhism in the first place.

So I have taken that pace back, I’m re-reading The Buddha, Geoff and Me, and it’s working. The chord is resonating once again, I’m fired up about my belief, and feeling all the better for it.

This post may come as a bit of a shock to some of you who read the blog regularly. So let me just explain a little more. My faith has never wavered, my chanting is as constant and central to my life as it has been from the start, but now I feel ‘unburdened’ from some of the fog that had started to cloud my view. Maybe my mirror needed polishing, I’m sure it still does, but I am confident that I am going about it the right way, and that feels good.