While concentrating on chanting “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo” illumining past actions of ignorance and delusion alleviates our suffering each moment.
Nichiren Daishonin writes: “But how
then do you interpret the passage in Miao-lo’s Diamond Scalpel that reads, “If one concentrates solely on the pure aspects of the essential nature of things, one will fail to conform even to the truth of things propounded by the Hinayana teaching. What then will become of the principle of the Buddha nature?”* [On the Ten Worlds] WND II: 182 (p. 168)
* The attempt described in this passage to concentrate only on “the pure aspects of the essential nature of things” contradicts the teaching of the Lotus Sutra that three thousand realms exist in a single moment of life. To put it another way, good and evil, truth and falsehood, ignorance and enlightenment, pure and impure—all exist in the essential nature of things. Realizing this is the enlightenment of the Lotus Sutra. Therefore, Miao-lo says, if one carries out Buddhist practice in order to realize only “the pure aspects,” one will fail to perceive even the Hinayana truth of non-substantiality, let alone the Mahayana truth of the Buddha nature.* http://www.nichirenlibrary.org
Concentrating from moment-to-moment chanting “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo” we observe our own behavior gaining understanding of the essential nature of causality.
Truly yours,
Tho Tsu 11/25/2017
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