"Since we enshrined the Denpo Gohonzon 5 months ago, after taking down SGI's Nichikan Gohonzon a serene atmosphere has pervaded throughout the house hold and in our daily life and many benefits have been flowing like what the SGI Gohonzon was supposed to do.
The 3 great secret laws is definitely working through this Gohonzon. I told this to 2 senior SGI-A leaders today who came to our house to take back their SGI Gohonzon before excommunicating my wife that had been a member for 55 years. The first half was in Okinawa the 2nd here in the land down under Australia.
You were right when you said this will happen.
Fancy being excommunicated over having an authentic complete Nichiren inscribed Gohonzon, how bizarre is that
They were insistent that it is more important to have faith in the Ten World Gohonzon that is within than the outward image of Gohonzon and that the other worlds that are missing in the Gohonzon exist in the worlds that are there in the Gohonzon. Mutual possession of the ten worlds kind of thing but with a few of the worlds missing, if you know what I mean
They said Nichikan was a great Priest who made right the wrongs of the Nichiren Shoshu priesthood that's why they chose his Gohonzon
They did sansho before the Denpo Gohozon when they arrived and before they left, they said all Gohonzon's are equal.
Nichiren said on first day of the tenth month of the second year of Kōan (1279) "Buddha fulfilled the purpose of his advent in a little over forty years, the Great Teacher T’ien-t’ai took about thirty years, and the Great Teacher Dengyō, some twenty years. I have spoken repeatedly of the indescribable persecutions they suffered during those years. For me it took twenty-seven years, and the great persecutions I faced during this period are well known to you all. (On Persecutions Befalling the Sage)
If you look at the charts of the progression of the Gohonzon there was a significant change, in that, for the first time, Devadatta appeared in the Gohonzon. The true presentation of the oneness of good and evil is now complete and ready for transformation by Myoho Renge Kyo.
"l managed to make a high-res, monochrome image of that Gohonzon as part of Mark Porter's ION project, and I looked into adding definition to those characters. What I noticed is that every version of the 101 Denpo Gohonzon available online has the "blobs of awakening" present in that American Kempon image.
ReplyDeleteThat's when it occurred to me that those characters were likely written that way by Nichiren himself. I still considered trying to make them clearer but stopped myself.
I thought, "Editing a Gohonzon? Who am I? Soka Gakkai??"
If Buddhic blobs are good enough for Bodhisattva Superior Practices, then by Lord Buddha, they're good enough for me!"
Bodhisattvas of the Earth may inscribe Gohonzon. If you consider yourself a Bodhisattva of the Earth and if Nichiren would consider you a BOE, I see no reason you can't correct an error. Where on Gohonzon 101 do you see a defect?
ReplyDeleteYou may search diagram Nichikan Nichiren Gohonzon if you don't know the character.
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