Change your Brainwaves, Change your Karma: Nichiren Buddhism 3.1 Kindle Edition

I love this book. I work in healthcare and I was trained to read and study science and Neurology. I love how there is a direct correlation between our brain waves and chanting. After chanting for 12 years, I can say I have accessed parts of my mind that I could not access before. I also noticed changes in my thinking and awareness. Yes, due to neuroplasticity, chanting has a short term and long term benefit to our brains and our brain waves. And to think this practice is over 700 years old and still relevant and applicable in 2019!

This book is great. I’m reading it for the second time, and I have sent this book to five friends. The best part of this book is that it motivates me to chant. I find meditation difficult, so chanting appeals to me as a practice to benefit my life and bring benefit to friends and family. YouTube.com has Daimoku videos that I use to chant.

If you're like me, and like knowing how and why things work the way they do, then this book is for you. Not only do the authors explain the mechanics of Nichiren Buddhist practice, but they peel back the curtain to reveal how Nichiren Buddhist practice, chanting Daimoku (Nam[u] Myoho Renge Kyo) affects the human brain. It is a wonderful explanation of how and why Nichiren Buddhism positively affects our lives, karma, and environments based on current scientific theories and experimentation. While the book does include a small bit of "new age" fluff, even that is in keeping with the directions in which scientific theory and experimentation are currently headed. The book is totally devoid of the superstitions of Middle Ages spirituality, and blends modern scientific theories of consciousness, neuro-physiology, brainwaves, brainwave synchronization, and much, much more, into a spiritually coherent whole. Heck, the authors actually offer themselves as guinea pigs for various experiments being done by a number of scientific outfits in Europe studying these very things! Even though the scholar/authors hail from a particular school of Nichiren Buddhism (SGI), the book is blessedly non-sectarian in tone, as the authors only concern if for their their quest for truth. Highly Recommended!

This book helped me understand and believe that the state of enlightenment, of Buddhahood, is a very real and achievable state. The authors make the case that while chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, with focus and determination, we can achieve this state, and that once in that state, beyond our ego, beyond our subconscious, we can break through seemingly intractable problems, overcome health issues, relationship problems, and fulfill our goals and aspirations. They use discoveries in neuroscience as well as theories and discoveries in quantum science, to help explain enlightenment from a different perspective. In the past, while reading Nichiren's letters, or the writings of Daisaku Ikeda, I've tended to skim over references to our Buddhahood... to the fact that we are entities of the mystic law... that we are a microcosm of the limitless macrocosm. It all sounded very grand and beautiful - but somehow too abstract or elusive. This book makes it real. I've gone back and re-read Nichiren's letters, and Mr Ikeda's writings with fresh eyes.

I have read more than 50 books on spirituality and this I would consider one of the best. This book made so many things so crystal clear. I have no words to express my deep gratitude to the authors.

I love this book! I have been chanting for 44 years, and have experienced tremendous benefits through this practice, however in the last few years I began feeling as I was stuck in a funnel with no exit! The book clearly explains why and how we can get unstuck. It helped me see inside this beautiful “maze” I call my life, and made me aware of how many suppressed feelings I had bottled up, which were the reason for my anxiety to resurface! This book is truly an inspiration and liberating! Thank you Susanne Mastsudo-Kiliani and Yukio Matsudo.

I read this book in tandem with it's sister book, "Transform Your Energy -- Change Your Life! NB 3.0" Author does a masterful job of taking information which might go over the average person's head and breaking it down for them, so that the information remains practical! Like me you will want to read this book the same day you get and plough through its pages.

Everybody should give this a read. Very interesting!

What a powerful book this is. Anyone who wants to know more about Buddhism should pick this up. When I had read so far something amazing happened and I had to take a break. I felt resentment and fear too spiralling up from within me. It took me a couple of days to overcome this and then I realised the pit I normally felt in my stomach on waking..an anxiety..had disappeared after years of relentlessly being there. I eagerly read on and found some karmic cycles in my life, which I hadn't recognised before were hitting me full in the face, forcing me to accept their existence and try to start changing those negative patterns engrained in my life. I find I am chanting with much more passion now, much more determined to polish my mirror until it shines brightly!! This is a must read for Nichiren Buddhists and those who are on the fringes of Buddhism. Read after the first book it gives a truly inspiring explanation of Nichiren Buddhism showing what he was so passionate and certain about in modern terms with scientific proof. I dare you to read it and not be moved. Marie annand

I have been a practicing Buddhist for 40 years. It is wonderful to at last find a clear understanding in modern scientific terms that explains how Nichiren Buddhism works. This book has added power to my practice and given me more conviction about my chanting. The words 'power daimoku' are accurate words to describe how l am now chanting.

Really enjoying learning with this read

I Love this book. It's very personal but also has a level of research and understanding that satisfies my need to go a little deeper. It feel like this book has been created from a genuine place. I would highly recommend for anyone interested in the beneficial effects of chanting and particularly Nichiren Buddhism. It is a much more rounded exploration of Nichiren Buddhism than the title may suggest. Thank you. Wayne.

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