Gosho 御義口伝下 Orally Transmitted teachings on the Lotus Sutra Part 2

第廿三　無明(むみょう)礼拝(らいはい)住処の事

Point Twenty-three, concerning the bow of obeisance related to ignorance

御義口伝に云く、自他の隔意(きゃくい)を立て彼は上慢の四衆・我は不軽と云う、

The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings says: When one sets up distinctions between self and others, then the“others” are the four kinds of believers of overbearing arrogance, and the “I” is the bodhisattva Never Disparaging.

不軽は善人・上慢は悪人と善悪を立つるは無明なり、

To set up distinctions between good and badby regarding the bodhisattva Never Disparaging as a “good” person and the arrogant ones as “bad” persons is a sign of ignorance.

此に立つて礼拝の行を成す時、善悪不二・邪(じゃ)正(しょう)一如(いちにょ)の南無妙法蓮華経と礼拝するなり云云。

But when one recognizes this and performs abow of obeisance, then one is bowing in obeisance to Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, the principle in which good and bad are not two different things, in which correct and incorrect are one and the same.

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