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Wednesday, August 7, 2013

SGI's "personal guidance" system fosters doubt

Our Enlightenment and the Buddha's Enlightenment is the same. It is
Namu Myoho renge kyo. Unshakeable faith in Namu Myoho renge kyo is
itself Buddhahood. Giving and receiving guidance from other "Buddhas"
is untenable. The guidance system that some Nichiren sects adopt,
whether it is guidance from a priest or a layman, fosters doubt, not
faith. In one's deep subconscious, one seeking or receiving guidance
"says" to him or herself, "If I am a Buddha, a supremely enlightened
being, why is it that I need guidance?" This is one reason the Buddha
and Nichiren Daishonin stated over, and over, and over again, '"Follow
the Law and not persons."

The Bodhisattvas of the Earth, "All Come together to the
Buddha" [Lotus Sutra Chapter 15]. One goes to the Original Eternal
Buddha Shakyamuni [Gohonzon], the origin of all Buddhas, for guidance.

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