"Question: What is the Law that represents the essence that has been set forth?
Answer: It consists of the object of devotion, the sanctuary, and the five characters of the daimoku [which are termed the Three Great Secret Laws] of the “Life Span” chapter. After Shakyamuni Buddha first attained enlightenment, when he was setting forth the four flavors and three teachings, and when he was preaching the part of the Lotus Sutra that deals with the expanded replacement of the three vehicles with the one vehicle, until he preached the “Emerging from the Earth” chapter and opened the near and revealed the distant in concise form, he kept this Law secret. But it was set forth in the “Life Span” chapter, which deals with the true aspect as he came to understand and practice it in an age long ago.
This secret Law of Shakyamuni Buddha, the lord of teachings, was not entrusted to Universal Worthy or Manjushrī, bodhisattvas who are widely known in the three existences of past, present, and future, much less to any being of lesser importance. It follows, then, that the ceremony in which the Buddha expounded this secret Law differs from those in which he preached the four flavors and three teachings, and the first fourteen chapters of the Lotus Sutra, which embody the theoretical teaching.
The place where the ceremony occurred was the eternally existing Land of Tranquil Light. The lord of teachings who abided in this land was the Buddha eternally endowed with the three bodies, and those whom he converted had to be of equal status. This being the case, from the depths of the Land of Tranquil Light he summoned up Superior Practices and the others who make up the four bodhisattvas, original followers of the Buddha who since the remote past had praised [the Buddha and the original Law], and entrusted this doctrine to them. As the Discipline Master Tao-hsien says, “The Law embodied therein [in the Lotus Sutra] is the Law that was realized countless kalpas in the past, and therefore it was entrusted to persons who had been the Buddha’s disciples from countless kalpas in the past.” - On Receiving the Three Great Secret Laws
and further down, regarding the Second Great Secret Law, the Object of Devotion.
"Answer: This is a matter of the utmost importance that I keep in my mind. But since you have an unmatched aspiration, I will explain it in brief.
The object of devotion as set forth in the “Life Span” chapter is Shakyamuni Buddha, the lord of teachings, eternally endowed with the three bodies, who since the beginning of numberless major world system dust particle kalpas in the past has had deep and abiding affinities with this land of ours."
Yet, Katie and Jerry see absolutely nothing wrong with the SGI/NST asserting that Nichiren or SGI/Buddha is the Second Great Secret Law. Such an obvious error, such an obvious mistaken belief, is the very reason for SGI and NST members to fail to attain Buddhahood in this lifetime, the next, or even for many kalpas. Katie and Jerry claim for themselves great compassion and that they are "good friends". Yet, they fail to correct and reproach SGI and NST leaders and members for their false beliefs regarding the Great Secret Law of the Object of Devotion which in effect destroys the Three Great Secret Laws revealed for the salvation of all people. Rather, they criticize those who correct SGI's and NST's wrong thought and mistaken beliefs while overlooking SGI's and NST's transgressions. Rather than being good friends in the traditional sense, they are complicit in SGI's and NST's slander. They are merely "good friends" in the sense of the poison drum relationship. Anyone who listens to them, takes their words to heart, becomes an enemy of the Buddha and the Sutra. They will have to spend a thousand Kalpas in the Hell of Incessant Suffering before they awaken to Myoho renge kyo (the Lotus Sutra) and the Three Great Secret Laws.
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