Thursday, June 18, 2015
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Another example of the Buddha's "tough love," huh? Your prognostications are no less ridiculous than the California state lawmaker who said the drought is a result of an abortion epidemic.
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You don't need to shoot the messenger, the same is happening in our times as it was in Nichirens Day. When we read Nichiren's writings his warnings stand out and speak for themselves all throughout his Goshos
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We can understand why Buddhists that follow other teachings of Shakyamuni and other Buddhas want to stop the cycle of birth and death. It is because we are attracted to the idea of the cessation of suffering because there is so much suffering in this world
But remember what Nichiren said !
Happiness in This World
THERE is no true happiness for human beings other than chanting Nam/u-myoho-renge-kyo. The sutra reads, “. . . where living beings enjoy themselves at ease.” How could this passage mean anything but the boundless joy of the Law? Surely you are included among the “living beings.” “Where” means Jambudvīpa, and Japan lies within Jambudvīpa.
Could “enjoy themselves at ease” mean anything but that both our bodies and minds, lives and environments, are entities of three thousand realms in a single moment of life and Buddhas of limitless joy?
There is no true happiness other than upholding faith in the Lotus Sutra. This is what is meant by “peace and security in their present existence and good circumstances in future existences.”
Though worldly troubles may arise, never let them disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even sages or worthies.
Drink sake only at home with your wife, and chant Nam/u-myoho-renge-kyo.
Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy.
Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam/u-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens.
How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law? Strengthen your power of faith more than ever.
With my deep respect,
Nichiren
The twenty-seventh day of the sixth month in the second year of Kenji (1276), cyclical sign hinoe-ne
Reply to Shijō KingoThe world would be better off if Nichiren never manifested. The world would still have the Lotus Sutra with a lot less religious divisiveness. I had no idea SGI, SC was surging in recruitment but apparently, white-supremacy and NRA fear-mongering are still not considered to be terroristic.
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"They do not think to renounce suffering
Nor seek liberation
therefore, they head east and west
In the burning house of the three realms.
though they meet with great suffering,
they do not see it as a concern."
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"Outbreaks of the three calamities and seven disasters that occurred thereafter were for the most part due to confusion within Buddhism itself. But these would affect only one or two persons, or one or two provinces, one or two clans, or one or two areas. Such disasters occurred because of the curse of the gods, because Buddhism was slandered, or because of the people’s distress."
I can not say exactly what will befall the province of South Carolina, only the assurance that some great calamity will certainly arise there. It will be specific punishment and limited [to this area] because of the confusion engendered by the SGI expansion there.
What you are talking about is the general punishment befalling the world for refusing to embrace the Lotus Sutra and Supreme Votary, Nichiren Daishonin:
"The three calamities and seven disasters of these past thirty years or more, however, are due solely to the fact that the entire country of Japan hates me, Nichiren. In province after province, district after district, and village after village, everyone from the ruler on down to the common people seethes in anger against me such as the world has never seen. This is the first time that the fundamental darkness has erupted in the lives of ordinary people caught in the illusions of thought and desire.13 Even if they pray to the gods, the Buddha, or the Lotus Sutra, these calamities will only be aggravated. But it is different when the votary of the Lotus Sutra offers prayers to the essential teaching of the Lotus Sutra. In the final analysis, unless we succeed in demonstrating that this teaching is supreme, these disasters will continue unabated."
That and, of course, the nature of the times steeped in Anger, Avarice, and Stupidity.
I couldn't agree with you more.