Sunday

As We Are

 https://nichirenwords.blogspot.com/2017/11/as-we-are.html
Dear Friend,

Calling upon our Buddha nature chanting “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo,” we reveal good fortune and benefits in our present form as we are.

Nichiren Daishonin writes: “The entity
of Myoho-renge-kyo in all its splendor—just what is this entity? If we hope to answer this, we must say that it is the eight-petaled white lotus that is the true nature of our own lives. Since this is so, then the essential nature of our lives is Myoho-renge-kyo. And once we have come to understand that Myoho-renge-kyo is not the name of a sutra but is the entity of our own lives, then we will see that our own lives are in fact the Lotus Sutra, and the Lotus Sutra is none other than the sacred word preached by the Buddha in order to make manifest the entities that are our lives. And seeing that, we will know that we ourselves are Thus Come Ones of original enlightenment, who possess the three bodies within a single body.” [On the Ten Factors] WND II: 179 (p. 80) http://www.nichirenlibrary.org

Our prayers chanting “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo” are sacred words opening happiness of freedom, purity and true self in a great wave enveloping living beings and our environment.

Truly yours,

Tho Tsu 11/11/2017

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