This past week has been filled with beautiful coincidences! Last Thursday, some of the biggest names in rap music, Asap Ferg & Denzel Curry were performing at Markus Garvey park in Harlem for FREE (unheard of) as part of a festival and one of the opening acts was a rapper called Hunter BDE (boddhisatva of the earth) whose part of my local Buddhist practice!! My recent music mentor who I met in my new Buddhism district in Harlem has a program that pushes rappers & music producers to release music more efficiently - he was present on stage with Hunter and his baby! How cool is it that the musicians from my Buddhist practice OPENED for such major hip hop stars! While I was hanging around at the festival, I met another member of my Buddhist practice who was an alum of my graduate school at as well. His child (who looked part Asian) was also present there. The next day, my local Buddhist leader was visiting me with 2 other members I didn’t know. One of them (Asian herself) came with her adorable Asian looking baby girl who I’d seen before in meetings. Turned out, she is the wife of this other Buddhist member from my school who I met at the concert! It felt like such a small world. More so, the other member who was visiting me who I didn’t know prior narrated a victory experience of a girl who happened to be someone I know well as she is from my city in India and went to grad school with me here! It was RAINING coincidences 🥰
Nichiren Daishonin’s Buddhism is a Japanese Buddhist practice where we chant “Nam myoho renge kyo” daily, which means “I believe in the power of cause and effect”. This practice’s purpose is to be hap...