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Sunday, September 17, 2023

Unknown wrote in response to post, "Nichiren quotes Tientai on those who merely meditate without doctrinal study"

At that time the Bodhisattva-Mahasattva Medicine King and the Bodhisattva- Mahasattva Great Eloquence, with their retinue of twenty thousand bodhisattvas, all in the presence of the Buddha, made this vow, saying: "Be pleased, World-honored One, to be without anxiety! After the extinction of the Buddha we will keep, read, recite, and preach this sutra. In the evil age to come living beings will decrease in good qualities, while they will increase in utter arrogance [and] in covetousness of gain and honors, [and will] develop their evil qualities and be far removed from emancipation. Though it may be difficult to teach and convert them, we, arousing our utmost patience, will read and recite this sutra, keep, preach, and copy it, pay every kind of homage to it, and spare not our body and life."

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Response: "In the evil age to come living beings will decrease in good qualities, while they will increase in utter arrogance [and] in covetousness of gain and honors, [and will] develop their evil qualities and be far removed from emancipation."

This refers to the deceased or dying SGI mentor and his disciples who desire much and are arrogant about their attainments.

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