Chanting Growers Group (2013-∞)

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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

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Happy Sega Dawa

Om muni muni maha muni ye soha

Om mani padme hung hrih

Om ah hung vajra guru padma siddhi hung

 

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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Hasch]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[chilliwilli]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[Weird]

If you wish to free yourself from the sufferings of birth and death you have endured since time without beginning and to attain without fail unsurpassed enlightenment in this lifetime, you must perceive the mystic truth that is originally inherent in all living beings. This truth is Myoho-renge-kyo. Chanting Myoho-renge-kyo will therefore enable you to grasp the mystic truth innate in all life.

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

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Nam Myoho Renge kyo

 

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Living beings like ourselves have dwelt in the sea of the sufferings of birth and death since time without beginning. But they become votaries of the Lotus Sutra, and realize that their bodies and minds, which have existed since the beginningless past, are inherently endowed with the eternally unchanging nature; awaken to their mystic reality with their mystic wisdom; and attain the Buddha’s body, which is as indestructible as a diamond. How then could they be different from that Buddha? Shakyamuni Buddha, the lord of teachings, who said numberless major world system dust particle kalpas ago, “I am the only person [who can rescue and protect others],”3 refers to living beings like ourselves. This is the Lotus Sutra’s teaching of three thousand realms in a single moment of life, and the action of “I am always here, preaching the Law.”4 Even though such an admirable Lotus Sutra and Shakyamuni Buddha exist, ordinary people are unaware of it. The passage in the “Life Span” chapter that reads, “I make it so that living beings in their befuddlement do not see me even when close by,” refers to this. The disparity between delusion and enlightenment is like that between the four views in the grove of sal trees.5 What is called the Buddha of three thousand realms in a single moment of life means that the entire realm of phenomena attains Buddhahood.

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

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Therefore, when you chant the daimoku of this sutra, you should be aware that it is a more joyful thing than for one who was born blind to gain sight and see one’s father and mother, and a rarer thing than for a man who has been seized by a powerful enemy to be released and reunited with his wife and children.

 

[Hasch]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

It even helps focus and center myself when the high is taking me too high...

 

[Weird]

Chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo has helped me in ways that is beyond my ability to articulate directly in one lifetime. If it wasn't the medicine this world truly needed I would haze zero desire to represent it as such.

 

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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

[chilliwilli]

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo

 

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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.

 

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Question: How great are the blessings contained within the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo?

Answer: The great ocean contains all the numerous rivers that flow into it, the great earth contains all sentient and insentient beings, the wish-granting jewel is capable of showering down innumerable treasures, and the heavenly king Brahmā rules over all the threefold world. The five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo are comparable to these. All beings of the nine worlds, as well as those in the world of Buddhahood, are contained within them. And since all beings of the Ten Worlds are contained within them, so are their environments.