Noimi Notes, Orthography/Phonology

I've decided to upload some of my raw notes to LJ. As such, they will be pretty cryptic. Also, further editing may be done, in some cases without mention.
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Noimi Notes: Mood, Aspect, Time

The previous post took too long to convert .... will fix the format later.
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Noimi Notes: Lexical Requirements

as before
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Noimi Notes: Comparisons

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3 Great Secret Laws

I had a "revelation" while chanting daimoku this evening, about the "Three Great Secret Laws" of Nichiren. I'll try to give details later, but it involves:

• "Shoho Jisso Sho"¹,


• the world of buddha in terms of relationship,


• mirrors and feedback,


• Firmly Established Practices,


• the content of the Gohonzon,


• and maybe the Doctor Who production Kinda.

Some thoughts I had were:

1. this process works better if the practitioner is more comfortable with the specific Nichiren mandala chanted, hence different inscriptions for different people, and


2. it works better if a person chants to the same image, whether at home or at meeting, hence a standard printing issued to all members of a particular sect.

These 2 are in conflict with each other. I also had a thought about mandalas in terms of shoes, each Shu using a different one. Let's not push this analogy too far, though!

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1. Particularly, "Shakyamuni is thought to have possessed the three virtues of sovereign, teacher, and parent for the sake of us common mortals, but on the contrary, it is the common mortal who endowed him with the three virtues."