We realize our eternal aspect of Buddha nature always existing within us chanting “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo” in each moment continuously opening our good fortune of happiness.
Nichiren Daishonin writes:” You must
never think that any of the eighty thousand sacred teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha’s lifetime or any of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions and three existences are outside yourself. Your practice of the Buddhist teachings will not relieve you of the sufferings of birth and death in the least unless you perceive the true nature of your life. If you seek enlightenment outside yourself, then your performing even ten thousand pratices and ten thousand good deeds will be in vain. It is like the case of a poor man who spends night and day counting his neighbor’s wealth but gains not even half a coin. That is why the T’ien-t’ai school’s commentary states, “Unless one peceives the nature of one’s life, one cannot eradicate one’s grave offenses.” This pasage implies that, unless one perceives the nature of one’s life, one’s practice will become an endless, painful austerity. Therefore, such students of Buddhism are condemned as non-Buddhist. Great Concentration and Insight states that, although they study Buddhism, their views are no different from those of non-Buddhists.” [On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime] WND I: I (p. 3-4) http://www.nichirenlibrary.org
Within this single moment our life inseparable from chanting “Nam Myoho Renge Kyo” presents our Buddha nature in temporary existence of daily reality.
Truly yours,
Tho Tsu 01/07/2018
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