Chanting Growers Group (2013-∞)

[Babbabud]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Cvh]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

This doctrine thus represents not only the personal enlightenment attained by a single Buddha, Shakyamuni, but the enlightenment of all other Buddhas as well.

---> https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-2/Content/291

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Cvh]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is not only the core of the Buddha’s lifetime teachings, but also the heart, essence, and ultimate principle of the Lotus Sutra

---> https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/108

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

The Great Teacher Dengyō, explaining the lotus of the “one great reason” [why the Buddhas appear in the world], writes: “The ‘one great matter,’ the heart and core of the Lotus Sutra, is the revelation of the lotus. The word ‘one’ signifies that it is the one reality. The word ‘great’ signifies that it is broad and all-encompassing in nature. And the word ‘matter’ refers to the working of the essential nature of phenomena. This one great reason or ‘ultimate matter’ is the truth or the teaching, the wisdom, and the practice of the perfect teaching, or the Dharma body, the wisdom, and the emancipation of the perfect teaching. Through this, the persons of the one vehicle, those of the three vehicles, those of the determinate groups, those of the indeterminate group, those who believe in Buddhist teachings, those who believe in non-Buddhist teachings, those who have no desire to become Buddhas, and those who are unable to believe in the correct teachings—all of these beings, every one of them, are brought to the realm of the wisdom penetrating all phenomena. Thus, this ‘one great reason’ opens the door of Buddha wisdom to all beings, shows it, causes them to awaken to it, and induces them to enter into it, and all of them attain Buddhahood.”44

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

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Cvh]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

“Good men, you ask where this sutra comes from, where it leads, where it abides. Listen carefully and with attention. Good men, this sutra issues originally from the dwelling and abode of the buddhas. Its aim is to lead all living beings to conceive the desire for enlightenment. And it abides in the practices carried out by bodhisattvas. Good men, this is where this sutra comes from, where it leads, and where it abides. Therefore this sutra is able to possess such immeasurable benefits, such inconceivable powers, and to assure to the multitude the quick attainment of unsurpassed enlightenment.

---> https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/lsoc/Prologue/3

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

The Offering of an Unlined Robe

A WOMAN is like water, which takes on the shape of its container. A woman is like an arrow, which is fitted to the bow. A woman is like a ship, which is dependent on its rudder. Therefore, if her husband is a thief, a woman will become a thief, and if her husband is a king, she will become the consort. If he is a man of goodness, she will become a Buddha. Not only this life but also the life to come depends on her husband.

At the same time, Hyōe no Saemon1 is a votary of the Lotus Sutra. No matter what may happen, because you are Saemon’s wife, the Buddha must acknowledge you as a woman of the Lotus Sutra. And, moreover, you have aroused faith of your own accord and have sent me an unlined robe2 for the sake of the Lotus Sutra.

There are two kinds of votaries of the Lotus Sutra: sages and ordinary people. The sage peels off his skin and uses it to copy the sutra passages.3 If ordinary persons offer their only robe to the votary of the Lotus Sutra, the Buddha will acknowledge it as an offering equal to peeling off their skin.

Since your unlined robe has been offered to the Buddhas of the 69,384 characters that make up the Lotus Sutra, it is 69,384 robes. And since every one of these 69,384 Buddhas is made up of the 69,384 sutra characters, it is as though you had offered that many robes to each of them. To illustrate, if a spark as small as a bean is set to a single blade of grass in a spring field of a thousand square ri thick with grass, it becomes in an instant an immeasurable, boundless blaze. Such is also the case with this robe. Though only one robe, it has been offered to the Buddhas of all the characters of the Lotus Sutra.

Be firmly convinced that the benefits from this will extend to your parents, your grandparents, nay, even to countless living beings, not to mention your own husband, whom you hold most dear.


Nichiren


The twenty-fifth day of the fifth month


Reply to the lady of Sajiki

 

[SoCal Hippy]

“And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered.”

(On Prayer - WND, Vol. 1, page 345)

 

[SoCal Hippy]

“Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens."

(Happiness in This World
- WND, Vol. 1, page 681)

 

[SoCal Hippy]

““Let us triumph over all and make the inspiring story of our human revolution through striving to realise the ideal of ‘establishing the correct teaching for the peace of the land’ shine throughout the world and into the future!”

Daisaku Ikeda

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo