Sunday 1 March 2009

City Of London.

City of London School
City of London
Yesterday, after I was told by my son's foster mother that my son's application, to enter St. Judes Church of England primary school, had been submitted. I asked her to enquire about a place for my son at 'City of London School' for Boys www.clsb.org.uk/
I am pleased that I will be attending Radar’s http://www.radar.org.uk Leadership Networking Day on 19th March at the Irish Centre, Hammersmith in West London.
I will also be returning to Scotland, again. Edinburgh, this time, for the following course:

Making Sense of Voices
How to make sense of voices in relation to life history and how to talk with voices in order to improve the relationship between voice hearer and voices
Facilitated by Internationally acclaimed Psychiatrist Dr Dirk Corstens
Edinburgh 20th April 2009 - London 21st April 2009 9.30am -4.00pm
Statutory sector £75 - Voluntary sector £60 - Unwaged & Family members £40

Those who strive to “establish the correct teaching for the peace of the land” as taught by Nichiren Daishonin and achieve kosen-rufu will no doubt face obstacles and hardships. As the Daishonin writes: “Without tribulation there would be no votary of the Lotus Sutra” (WND-1, 33). The Daishonin teaches that the world is ruled by the devil king of the sixth heaven. The term “devil” indicates the negative functions of life that cause unhappiness and misfortune. Discrimination, domination, the desire to harm and kill—all these are due to the devilish functions operating within the human heart and mind.

Buddhism teaches that the origin of these devilish functions is the fundamental darkness or ignorance residing at the very foundation of life. The life-state of the Buddha is the key to overcoming this ignorance or darkness. Kosen-rufu is the struggle to awaken the life-state of Buddhahood in all people and vanquish the darkness and ignorance that is the root of all unhappiness. Because of that, wherever Kosen-rufu is advancing, there is a tremendous struggle going on between the Buddha and devilish functions, which appears in the form of persecutions of those who uphold and spread the Mystic Law. (NL No. 7686 Jan 14 2009)

UK Pride and other SGI LGBT Events 2009

Date
Event

March
8
Student Pride (Brighton)

April / May
?
Absolute Freedom Kick-off mtg

May
15-18
SGI-USA LGBT Training Course

23-25
Birmingham

June
6
Oxford

27
Pride Scotia (Edinburgh)

July
4
London

11
Bourne Free (Bournemouth)

16-19
SGI-Germany LGBT Training Course

18
Thanet (Kent)

August
1
Brighton and Hove

2
Leeds

8
Cornwall (Truro)

15
UK Black (London)

29
Cardiff

29-31
Manchester

September
12
Reading

27
Intro to Buddhism mtg – Ldn

December
1
World AIDS Day

Dates to be decided

Belfast


Northern (Newcastle)

European Pride events with a possible SGI presence
6 June
Zurich – Europride (Switzerland)

13 June
Genoa (Italy national pride)

19 June
Berlin (Germany)

27 June
Paris (France)

4 July
Madrid (Spain)

1 August
Amsterdam (Holland)

8 August
Reykjavik (Iceland)

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