Observations With Reflecting Thoughts Analysis

Analyzing of Observations with Reflecting Thoughts While devotees were chanting, I observed that some were rubbing the beads. Initially I thought that it was part of the religious practice. However, based on my existing knowledge, strings of beads were usually held differently; on one hand and devotees would rotate the beads with their thumb. In addition, they did this to count the number of times they had chanted. Thus, I postulate that since Soka is a Japanese religious movement and in a sense a split from mainstream Buddhism, maybe it has its own way of holding the beads but the meaning behind the actions remained unchanged. Nevertheless, I soon noticed that not everyone was doing so and the timing which they rubbed the beads were not
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