“Constellation King Flower, if there are those who have made up their minds and wish to gain supreme perfect enlightenment, they would do well to burn a finger or one toe of their foot as an offering to the buddha towers. It is better than offering one’s realm and cities, wife and children, or the mountains, forests, rivers, and lakes in the lands of the major world system, or all their precious treasures. Even if a person were to fill the whole major world system with the seven treasures as an offering to the buddha and the great bodhisattvas, pratyekabuddhas, and arhats, the benefits gained by such a person cannot match those gained by accepting and upholding this Lotus Sutra, even just one four-line verse of it! That brings the most numerous blessings of all.
faith remains the issue. is it no surprise that most latter day common mortals cannot uphold faith in the L S? very easy to begin and very difficult to continue. gregorio
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