"Volume nine of The Annotations on “The Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra” states, “These two types of overbearing arrogance are not without difference in degree between them. One who supposes that ordinary human beings are the same as the Buddha is guilty of great shamelessness.” -- Nichiren
No "ordinary human being" is able to uphold the lotus sutra in the time of mappo, only the votaries of the lotus sutra, who are all Bodhisattva-Buddhas.
ReplyDelete"They merely advance the principle of nonduality without understanding the principle of duality, and commit an act of great arrogance, claiming that they themselves are equal to the Buddha."
ReplyDeleteFaithless arrogant disciple of Ikeda:
ReplyDelete"When Shakyamuni Buddha revealed that he had gained enlightenment in the far distant past, it became apparent that all the other Buddhas were emanations of Shakyamuni. When the Buddha preached the earlier sutras and the first half, or theoretical teaching, of the Lotus Sutra, the other Buddhas were pictured as standing on an equal footing with Shakyamuni, after completing their respective practices and disciplines. Therefore, the people who take one or another of these Buddhas as their object of devotion customarily look down on Shakyamuni Buddha. But now it becomes apparent that Vairochana Buddha, who is described in the Flower Garland Sutra as being seated on a lotus pedestal, and the various Buddhas who appear in the sutras of the Correct and Equal and the Wisdom periods, such as the Mahāvairochana Sutra, are all in fact followers of Shakyamuni Buddha."
“At the start I took a vow, / hoping to make all persons / equal to me, without any distinction between us” (LS, 36).
ReplyDeleteThat is why Chapter 2 of the Lotus Sutra is relegated to the Theoretical Teachings. You are not even equal to the slanderer Daisaku Ikeda but in your arrogance you claim to be the equal of Shakyamuni Buddha, Now go seek some guidance from your Vice General Director.
ReplyDeleteIf you don't want to know you are a Buddha that is fine with me, but it is said over an over in many other chapter of the lotus sutra both in what is labeled the theoretical and the essential chapters and in the other of the 3 fold lotus sutra including this one. Good sons! Sixthly, the inconceivable merit-power of this sutra is as follows: if good sons or good daughters keep, read, and recite this sutra either during the Buddha's lifetime or after his extinction, even though clothed in delusions, they will deliver living beings from the life and death of delusions, and make them overcome all sufferings, by preaching the Law for them. After hearing it, living beings will put it into practice, and attain the law, the merit, and the way, where there will be equality and no difference from the Buddha Tathagata." page 14 The Threefold Lotus Sutra Translated by Bunno Kato. Free online in PDF. And it also says this so many times in the writing of Nichiren which are free online in PDF. Don't need any leaders to tell me what I already know.
ReplyDeleteFrom On the Treasure Tower "Thus the treasure tower appeared in order to verify the theoretical teaching and to introduce the essential teaching." p. 299 WND In "the Latter Day of the Law, no treasure tower exists other than the figures of the men and women who embrace the Lotus Sutra." p. 299 WND worshiping a Buddha that you think is some how superior to you, is practicing Christianity and calling it buddism.
ReplyDeleteDear Tim. You are bringing a BB gun to a fire fight.
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Read it and weep.
and just in case you, your members and your leaders missed it:
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My disagreement with the SGI is soteriological and I will attempt to prove that homage and reverence of the Original Eternal Buddha Shakyamuni and not another “archetype”, is a fundamental component of the doctrine of salvation of the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren Daishonin. To reject this Buddha for an impersonal Buddha-nature or another archetype [such as Daisaku Ikeda] and thus to take this particular Buddha out of the Law, is a serious mistake and a cause for descending into the Lower Worlds, according to Nichiren.
ReplyDelete“The Lotus Sutra states, “I alone can save them” (Chapter 3) and “I likewise am the Father of the World, The One who saves from the various sufferings and travails.” (Chapter 16)
Nichiren says,
“Bear in mind that the twenty-eight chapters of the Lotus Sutra contain only a few passages elucidating the truth, but a great many words of praise.”
In the same work, Nichiren writes:
“Only the Lotus Sutra represents the wonderful teaching preached directly from the golden mouth of Shakyamuni Buddha, who is perfectly endowed with the three bodies. Therefore, even Universal Worthy and Manjushri were hardly able to expound so much as a single phrase or verse of it. How much more difficult then must it be for us, who are no more than ordinary people living in this latter age, to embrace even one or two words of this sutra! (The Blessings of the Lotus Sutra)
Is it possible that salvation will take place in one who lacks gratitude? Can one possible obtain the fruit of Supreme and Perfect Enlightenment by rejecting or failing to recognize one’s loving father while praising and acknowledging a stranger as one’s real father? Is not gratitude an essential component to the doctrine of salvation?
Nichiren states over and over, “Shakyamuni is the only Buddha endowed with all three virtues and to whom we owe a profound debt of gratitude.” (Encouragement to a Sick Person)
and again, referring to Shakyamuni Buddha
“The debt of gratitude we owe him is deeper than the ocean, weightier than the earth, vaster than the sky.”
Is not the vertical gratitude to Shakyamuni Buddha in enabling us to encounter the Law and to obtain Buddhahood fundamental to the horizontal transmission of the Dharma in gratitude to all people?
One who lacks gratitude for Shakyamuni Buddha is no better than an animal according to Nichiren Daishonin and his attainments can not possibly go beyond that of the World of Animality.
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Nichiren, warning of the effect of embracing an archetype other than Shakyamuni Buddha writes,
ReplyDelete“All the four directions will be afflicted by drought, and evil omens will appear again and again. The ten evil acts will increase greatly, particularly greed, anger, and foolishness, and people will think no more of their fathers and mothers than does the roe deer. Living beings will decline in numbers, in longevity, physical strength, dignity, and enjoyment. They will become estranged from the delights of the human and heavenly realms, and all will fall into the paths of evil. The wicked rulers and monks who perform these ten evil acts will curse and destroy my correct teaching and make it difficult for those in the human and heavenly realms to stay there. At that time the benevolent deities and heavenly kings, who would ordinarily take pity on living beings, will abandon this impure and evil nation, and all will make their way to other regions.” (On Establishing the Correct Teachings)
He also writes, referring to the Lotus Sutra:
“Thus it was revealed that Shakyamuni had long been the Buddha since the eternal past and it became clear that various Buddhas in other worlds were all manifestations of Shakyamuni Buddha. Now, however, as Shakyamuni was proved to be the Eternal Buddha, those Buddhas in the Flower Garland Sutra, or Buddhas in the Hodo, Hannya, or Great Sun Buddha sutras all became subordinates of Shakyamuni Buddha.” (Kaimoku Sho, p. 174, translated by Kyotsu Hori, 1987)
and
“Since Shakyamuni Buddha is eternal and all other Buddhas in the universe are His manifestations…” (Kaimoku Sho, translated by Kyotsu Hori, p.176).
and
“Since Sakyamuni Buddha is eternal and all other Buddhas in the universe are His manifestations, then those great bodhisattvas converted by manifested Buddhas are also disciples of Lord Sakyamuni Buddha. If the “Life Span of the Buddha” chapter had not been expounded, it would be like the sky without the sun and moon, a country without a king, mountains and rivers without gems, or a man without a soul.” (Noppa, pg. 176, Kaimoku Sho)
and
“Shakyamuni Buddha, the Lord-preacher of this pure land, has never died in the past, nor will he be born in the future. He exists forever, throughout the past, present and future.” (P.100)
The True Object of Worship reads,
“Many wooden statues and portraits were made of Shakyamuni Buddha as He preached Hinayana and quasi-Mahayana sutras, but statues and portraits of the Eternal Shakyamuni Buddha revealed in the Juryo Chapter of the Lotus Sutra were never made. Now, in the beginning of Mappo, is it not the time that such statues and portraits are made?” (P.104 NOPPA)
I can supply ninety or so similar passages.
I should have put more of the quote. "In the Latter Day of the Law, no treasure tower exists other than the figures of the men and women who embrace the Lotus Sutra. It follows, therefore, that whether eminent or humble, high or low, those who chant Nam-myohorenge-kyo are themselves the treasure tower, and, likewise, are themselves the Thus Come One Many Treasures. No treasure tower exists other than Myoho-renge-kyo. The daimoku of the Lotus Sutra is the treasure tower, and the treasure tower is Nam-myohorenge- kyo." So as Nichren states I am The Thus Come One Many Treasure, a buddha from time without beginning. And so are you Mark.
ReplyDelete"Rely on the law, not on the person," Nirvana Sutra. In other-words Nam-myohorenge- kyo is the law that we revere not the person, Shakyamuni, or Nichiren or any other buddha, Nam-myohorenge- kyo is the original Buddha and we are all equal to it and manifestation of it. There is no fight because it is just a fact.
ReplyDeleteNichiren says it all here. "At present the entire body of the Honorable Abutsu is composed of the five elements of earth, water, fire, wind, and space. These five elements are also the five characters of the daimoku.
ReplyDeleteAbutsu-bo is therefore the treasure tower itself, and the treasure tower is
Abutsu-bo himself. No other knowledge is purposeful. It is the treasure
tower adorned with the seven kinds of treasures—hearing the correct teaching, believing it, keeping the precepts, engaging in meditation, practicing assiduously, renouncing one’s attachments, and reflecting on oneself. You may think you offered gifts to the treasure tower of the Thus Come One Many Treasures, but that is not so. You offered them to yourself. You, yourself, are a Thus Come One who is originally enlightened and endowed with the three bodies. You should chant Nammyoho-renge-kyo with this conviction. Then the place where you chant daimoku will become the dwelling place of the treasure tower. The sutra reads, 'If there is any place where the Lotus Sutra is preached, then my treasure tower will come forth and appear in that spot.'” Pp 299-300 WND, written on Sado (he said everything he wrote before sado [most of what you quote] ]was his expedient means teachings.) We all (even you) are a Thus Come One who is originally enlightened and endowed with the three bodies." "No other knowledge is purposeful."
Four of the Five Major writings are post Tatsunokuchi. The Treasure Tower isn't even in Nichiren's hand. I suggest you prostrate yourself on the ground in gratitude to Shakyamuni Buddha as did Nichiren and get rid of your sleezy mentor.
ReplyDeleteYou will fail to quickly obtain Buddhahood Tim because you confuse the general and the specific:
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Because the Law is supreme the person [who embraces the Law] is worthy of respect. No ones embrace the Law more fully than Shakyamuni Buddha and Nichiren Daishonin. That is why we revere and rely upon them. Shakyamuni Buddha in particular, who has never lied for countless eons. Your mentor lies repeatedly.
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