Chanting Growers Group (2013-∞)

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo !!!

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Cvh]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Babbabud]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

Though the teaching I am now propagating seems limited, it is extremely profound. That is because it goes deeper than the teaching expounded by T’ien-t’ai, Dengyo, and others. It is the three important matters1 in the “Life Span” chapter of the essential teaching. Practicing only the seven characters of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo seems limited, but since they are the master of all the Buddhas of the three existences, the teacher of all the bodhisattvas in the ten directions, and the guide that enables all living beings to attain the Buddha way, it is profound.

The sutra states, “The wisdom of the Buddhas is infinitely profound and immeasurable.”2 It refers to “the Buddhas” here in the sense of all Buddhas throughout the ten directions in the three existences, from the Thus Come One Mahavairochana of the True Word school and Amida of the Pure Land school to the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of all schools and all sutras, all Buddhas of the past, future, and present, and the present Thus Come One Shakyamuni. And the sutra speaks of the wisdom of all those Buddhas.

What is meant by this “wisdom”? It is the entity of the true aspect of p.318all phenomena, and of the ten factors of life that lead all beings to Buddhahood. What then is that entity? It is Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. A commentary states that the profound principle of the true aspect is the originally inherent Myoho-renge-kyo.3 We learn that that true aspect of all phenomena is also the two Buddhas Shakyamuni and Many Treasures [seated together in the treasure tower]. “All phenomena” corresponds to Many Treasures, and “the true aspect” corresponds to Shakyamuni. These are also the two elements of reality and wisdom. Many Treasures is reality; Shakyamuni is wisdom. It is the enlightenment that reality and wisdom are two, and yet they are not two.

These are teachings of prime importance. These are also what is called “earthly desires are enlightenment,” and “the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana.”

Earthly Desires Are Enlightenment

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

 

[Weird]

As for the Lotus Sutra, one may recite the entire sutra of twenty-eight chapters in eight volumes every day; or one may recite only one volume, or one chapter, or one verse, or one phrase, or one word; or one may simply chant the daimoku, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, only once a day, or chant it only once in the course of a lifetime; or hear someone else chant it only once in a lifetime and rejoice in the hearing, or rejoice in hearing the voice of someone else rejoice in the hearing, and so on in this manner to the fiftieth hearer.[SUP]2[/SUP] And if one were to be at the end, even if one’s faith were weak and one’s sense of rejoicing diluted like the frailty of a child of two or three, or the inability of a cow or horse to distinguish before from after, the blessings one would gain would be a hundred, thousand, ten thousand, million times greater than those gained by persons of keen faculties and superior wisdom who study other sutras, persons such as Shāriputra, Maudgalyāyana, Manjushrī, and Maitreya, who had committed to memory the entire texts of the various sutras.

The Recitation of the “Expedient Means” and “Life Span” Chapters


---> https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/9

 

[Cvh]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Weird]

"I entrust you with the propagation of Buddhism in your province. It is stated that 'the seeds of Buddhahood sprout as a result of conditions, and for this reason they preach the single vehicle.'"

(The Properties of Rice - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 1117) Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shinbun September 15th, 2012

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Forest20]

Nam myoho renge kyo

 

[Guy]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[easyDaimoku]

Nam myoho renge kyo!!! Mugi Wasshin! Chanting Growers in a new decade and we’re chanting daimoku everyday! Shoutout to Babbabud, Mrs.Babba, PasstheDoobie, and everyone else!

 

[Babbabud]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Cvh]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Cvh]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

NAM-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

The Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra

 

[Cvh]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Cvh]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

I HAVE just carefully read your letter. To reply, the ultimate Law of life and death as transmitted from the Buddha to all living beings is Myoho-renge-kyo. The five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo were transferred from Shakyamuni and Many Treasures, the two Buddhas inside the treasure tower, to Bodhisattva Superior Practices, carrying on a heritage unbroken since the infinite past. Myō represents death, and hō, life. Living beings that pass through the two phases of life and death are the entities of the Ten Worlds, or the entities of Myoho-renge-kyo.

The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life

https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/29