1. Volume One
2. Volume Two
3. Volume Three
4. The Truth Within
5. On Securing Peace
6. New Year's
7. For Women
8. Quantum Life Practitioners
9. Letter to Mom
10. On sharing epiphany
11. For relationships
12. On persecutions and commitment
13. On Revelations of The Path
14. The Key to Joy
15. The Buddha Mind
16. The Universal Truth is the timeless Entity of Life
17. The World shakes in all ten directions
18. Exigency in Dedication to the Truth

New Year's Guidance

2005-2006 New Year

I was born in the year of the Rooster, Renee in the year of the Dog. My father born in the year of the Sheep, and my mother in the year of the Monkey. It is interesting to note that the Dog follows the Rooster, and so too does the Monkey follow the year of the Sheep.

As I am now in the midst of my life should I continue to survive my ailments, I am teaching and reflecting a great deal on the meaning and learning of my life. 2005 has been the year of the Rooster. A year that meant many philosophical epiphany for me and the establishment of my transition to an enlightened state of Arhat, Monk and Priest. In this awareness I have tried to transmit my complete understanding in literary form in the book "Quantum Life". In this way, the year of the Rooster has borne me new self. As the year ends, I look toward the year of the Dog and prepare for what must be a year of revolution in my wife's life. I wish that all the year's events would lead us both to more solidity and strength as well as rewards and security.

Most of all, I would like to close the year of the Rooster 2005 with a refreshed declaration of love and acceptance of my mother and father. We have all been through tremendous tumult and stress in the worlds of the twentieth century. A time period of incomprehensible changes in economics, technology, government, lifestyles, and the planet itself. Amidst the extremities of survival, our family has experienced the extremities of emotion, humiliation, intimate pain, death, and a numb survival dragging forcefully our battered and yet resilient hope. Hope, reduced to its essential non-form. In this mélange, we all sought the simplest and thinnest of threads to adhere our hopes of a better life. The thread is one woven of love. And in our most desperate times the pressure on each of us to give and receive that love has been at its most unfair. It is my wish that as we all reach deeper into the terminus and longevity of our lives, we will not only recognize the tremendous efforts we have made, but accept, embrace, and validate the love we have and still share as humans, as parent, lover, son, daughter, and family in a long and diverse tree off beautiful fruit.

Like the spectrum of colours in light, love has mostly unseen colours as well. The colours unseen do not diminish the warmth of the sun, just as they do not diminish the depth and warmth of love.

Let us make the end of this year a great success that we may invite the next year to yet surpass.

With love and respect,

Sylvain Chamberland
Sifu, Nichiren Buddhist Monk
Threefold Lotus Kwoon
http://threefoldlotus.com

BACKGROUND

After twelve years of non-communication with his father, Reverend Sylvain was able to locate his estranged father and his concubine. After several telephone conversations and some email exchanges, it became very apparent that Hector, the Reverend's father, had developed more paranoia and hatred for the world around him and although seeing his son as a rival and threat all of his life, Hector was now more unstable and distrustful of his son than ever before.

In following communications Reverend Sylvain suggested many ways in that he and his father might create a new relationship. IT was the Reverend's wish to simply be a part of his father's final years in filial duty and to bring as much as possible, some measure of peace and calm to his father's troubled perceptions.

Unfortunately, repeated efforts by Reverend Sylvain only fuelled more distrust and polemics from his father. Though there was a point at which Hector seemed to invite his son's return into his life, the demons in his head contrived and brought deep hatred and delusions to bear on his conversations with the Reverend, finally ending in a request that his son wait another twelve years to contact Hector again. He also asked the Reverend destroy all avenue of communication with him.

Reverend Sylvain's last communication to Hector was a brief email agreeing to his father's wishes and a wish for his father's good health.