“If anyone preaches doctrines other than these, then even though he may be a Buddha, he is not to be trusted.
Thus one puts one’s faith in the Buddha who appears in the Lotus Sutra. Hence this is what I mean when I speak of basing one’s faith on a Buddha."
Such doctrines as these:
ReplyDelete“After the Thus Come One has entered extinction, you must single-mindedly accept, uphold, read, recite, explain, preach and transcribe it, and practice it as directed. In any of the various lands, . . . wherever the sutra rolls are preserved, whether in a garden, a forest, beneath a tree, in monks’ quarters, in the lodgings of white-robed laymen, in palaces, or in mountain valleys or the wide wilderness, in all these places one should erect towers and offer alms. Why? Because you should understand that such spots are places of religious practice. In such places have the Buddhas gained supreme perfect enlightenment.”
Even were we to be most generous, we could NEVER countenance those "Buddhas" who preach that the oneness of mentor and disciple is the principle doctrine of the Lotus Sutra, save those who refer to the Law, the Buddha of the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren.