Lets just say for arguments sake that you are indeed absolutely equal to Shakyamuni Buddha, a Three Bodied Tathagata supremely and perfectly Enlightened since time without beginning. Therefore, are you not a living Buddha? Why do you need a living mentor? You yourself would have been mentor to more beings than there are grains of sand on all the planets and moons in the visible universe. You are eminently capable as you are without the Ikeda crutch. You lack faith, apparently.
I am equal to you and you are an unlimited being just like Daisaku Ikeda. I am his mentor as much as he is my mentor that is the "oneness of mentor and disciple." We are equal. he just happened to be born this time around in The 30s and I was born in the 70s, so when he passes away in this life, he will be reborn as my disciple and we can continue the dance we have done for eternity, just like Shakyamuni and Nichiren and I and you have done, but I won't write blogs against you when our role are reversed in our next incarnation.
ReplyDelete"All of these statements are intended to
ReplyDeletecombat the view expounded in the
Hinayana sutras that in the worlds of
the ten directions there is only one
Buddha." WND p. 232 from THE OPENING OF THE EYES (I)
"Thus the cause and effect of
ReplyDeletethe Ten Worlds as expounded in the
earlier sutras and the theoretical teaching
of the Lotus Sutra are wiped out,
and the cause and effect of the Ten
Worlds52 in the essential teaching are
revealed. This is the doctrine of original
cause and original effect. It reveals
that the nine worlds are all present in
beginningless Buddhahood and that
Buddhahood is inherent in the beginningless
nine worlds. This is the true
mutual possession of the Ten Worlds,
the true hundred worlds and thousand
factors, the true three thousand realms
in a single moment of life." WND p 235 from THE OPENING OF THE EYES (I)
"The Buddha replied to the request
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wish to open the door of Buddha
wisdom to all living beings.' The
term 'all living beings' here refers to
Shariputra, and it also refers to icchantikas [like this blogger],
persons of incorrigible disbelief.
It also refers to the nine worlds. Thus
the Buddha fulfilled his words, 'Living
beings are numberless. I vow to save
them all,' when he declares, 'At the
start I took a vow, hoping to make all
persons equal to me, without any distinction
between us, and what I long
ago hoped for has now been fulfilled.'
All the great bodhisattvas, heavenly
beings, and others, when they had
heard the doctrine of the Buddha and
comprehended it, said, 'Since times
past often we have heard the World-
Honored One’s preaching, but we have
never heard this kind of profound,
wonderful, and superior Law.'" But still Mark Doesn't hear it.
WND p 250-1 from THE OPENING OF THE EYES (I)
Among these great bodhisattvas as
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thousand worlds [that includes you and me bro] there were four great
sages called Superior Practices, Boundless
Practices, Pure Practices, and Firmly
Established Practices. In the presence
of these four, the other bodhisattvas
suspended in the air or seated on Eagle
Peak could not bear to gaze on them
face to face or begin to fathom their
dignity. Even the four bodhisattvas of
the Flower Garland Sutra, the four
bodhisattvas of the Mahavairochana
Sutra, or the sixteen great bodhisattvas
of the Diamond Crown Sutra,
when in the presence of these four,
were like bleary-eyed men trying to
peer at the sun, or like humble fishermen
appearing in audience before the
emperor. These four were like T’aikung
Wang and the others of the four
sages of ancient China, who towered
above the multitude. They were like
the Four White-Haired Elders of
Mount Shang who assisted Emperor
Hui. Solemn, dignified, they were beings
of great and lofty stature. WND p 252
from THE OPENING OF THE EYES (II)
I too just like you are 'beings of great and lofty stature' so stop playing like you are someone inferiors to any other Buddha.
You are among the sleaziest prevaricators I have ever met Tim. You are a chip off of your mentor's block. You wrote in an attempt to support your erroneous view:
ReplyDelete"All of these statements are intended to
combat the view expounded in the
Hinayana sutras that in the worlds of
the ten directions there is only one
Buddha." WND p. 232 from THE OPENING OF THE EYES (I)
Of course, never mentioning the immediate following text of the treatise:
"But in the case of the Lotus Sutra, it differs so greatly from the previous Mahayana sutras that Shāriputra and the other voice-hearers, the great bodhisattvas, and the various human and heavenly beings, when they heard the Buddha preach it, were led to think, “Is this not a devil pretending to be the Buddha?”45 And yet those bleary-eyed men of the Flower Garland, Dharma Characteristics, Three Treatises, True Word, and Nembutsu schools all seem to think that their own particular sutras are exactly the same as the Lotus Sutra. That is what I call wretched perception indeed!"
You are indeed the one with wretched perception, There is indeed one and only one Buddha and we are emanations of him. Read the treatise again, and again, and again, as have I.