Chanting Growers Group (2013-∞)

[Cvh]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[SoCal Hippy]

"Never seek this Gohonzon outside yourself. The Gohonzon exists only within the mortal flesh of us ordinary people who embrace the Lotus Sutra and chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. The body is the palace of the ninth consciousness, the unchanging reality that reigns over all of life’s functions."

(The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon
- WND, Vol. 1, page 832)

 

[SoCal Hippy]

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“We may experience the loss of loved ones, or become ill ourselves. We may struggle with family discord, children getting into trouble, unemployment, bankruptcy or financial hardship. Suffering assails us without end, like raging waves pounding us one after another. That’s why we practise Nichiren Buddhism, why we have to become strong. There is no destiny that we cannot overcome through faith.”

Daisaku Ikeda

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Cvh]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

Today there are people who have faith in the Lotus Sutra. The belief of some is like fire while that of others is like water. When the former listen to the teachings, their passion flares up like fire, but as time goes on, they tend to discard their faith. To have faith like water means to believe continuously without ever regressing. Since you visit me constantly, regardless of the difficulties, your belief is comparable to flowing water. It is worthy of great respect!

--- https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/113

 

[Cvh]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

Bodhisattva Nāgārjuna in his Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom says, “[The Lotus Sutra is] like a great physician who can change poison into medicine.” This quotation occurs in a passage in Great Perfection of Wisdom that explains the virtues inherent in the character myō of the Lotus Sutra. The Great Teacher Miao-lo remarks, “Because it can cure what is thought to be incurable, it is called myō, or wonderful.”27

--- https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/14#para-36

 

[Weird]

AM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO. Question: Is it possible, without understanding the meaning of the Lotus Sutra, but merely by chanting the five or seven characters of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo once a day, once a month, or simply once a year, once a decade, or once in a lifetime, to avoid being drawn into trivial or serious acts of evil, to escape falling into the four evil paths, and instead to eventually reach the stage of non-regression?
Answer: Yes, it is.

--- https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/14#para-36

 

[weedtoker]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

the bodhisattvas of superior capacity honestly discard expedient means and do not carry out the practice of gradual progress. They practice the Lotus Sutra, and when they attain its truth, they simultaneously acquire all manner of fortunate results. Persons such as these are called the people of the one vehicle.

--- https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/47

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

One who studies the teachings of Buddhism must not fail to repay the four debts of gratitude. According to the Contemplation on the Mind-Ground Sutra, the first of the four debts is that owed to all living beings. Were it not for them, one would find it impossible to make the vow to save innumerable living beings. Moreover, but for the evil people who persecute bodhisattvas, how could those bodhisattvas increase their merit?

--- https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/6

 

[easyDaimoku]

”Therefore, although the people may not heed it or may say that it does not suit their capacity, one should nevertheless persist in expounding to them the five-character title of the Lotus Sutra, because there is no other way than this to attain Buddhahood. .... Therefore, one should by all means persist in preaching the Lotus Sutra and causing them to hear it. Those who put their faith in it will surely attain Buddhahood, while those who slander it will establish a 'poison-drum relationship'* with it and will likewise attain Buddhahood. In any event, the seeds of Buddhahood exist nowhere apart from the Lotus Sutra."


* poison-drum relationship - https://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/dict...efine?tid=2289

(How Those Initially Aspiring to the Way Can Attain Buddhahood through the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 882) Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's speech, Seikyo Shimbun, February 14th, 2006)

Good morning, I’m still on the original thread too! Greetings to everyone, hope each of you and your loved ones have been having a happy and healthy summer!!

Always with you in spirit,
MyohoRengeKyo Easy

 

[BushyOldGrower]

Good Morning all...Bog

 

[Weird]

Question: What is that profound significance? Answer: In this passage, Shakyamuni Buddha explains that he is entrusting the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo, which is the essence of the Lotus Sutra, to the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, his original disciples.

--- https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/47#para-56


Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Cvh]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

The Lotus Sutra, however, can cure the dead as well as the living, and therefore it has the character myō in its title [Myoho-renge-kyo].

--- https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/14#para-36


Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

I DEEPLY appreciate your visit here and your constant concern over the numerous persecutions that have befallen me. I do not regret meeting with such great persecutions as the votary of the Lotus Sutra. However many times I were to repeat the cycle of birth and death, no life could be as fortunate as this. [If not for these troubles,] I might have remained in the three or four evil paths. But now, to my great joy, I am sure to sever the cycle of the sufferings of birth and death, and attain the fruit of Buddhahood.

--- https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/35


Nam Myoho Renge Kyo