Gosho 諸宗問答抄 Questions and Answers on Various Buddhist Sects

次に絶待(ぜったい)妙(みょう)と申すは開会(かいえ)の法門にて候なり、

We come next to a discussion of the absolute myō, which is the doctrine dealing with the opening up and merging of the teachings.

The absolute truth is revealed by the principle of refuting the provisional teachings and revealing the truth.

此の時は爾前権(ごん)教(きょう)とて嫌ひ捨(すて)らるる所の教を皆(みな)法華の大海におさめ入るるなり、

At this time the teachings set forth in the sutras preached prior to the Lotus, the provisional teachings, which had been cast aside as undesirable, are now all merged in the great sea of the Lotus Sutra.

From this viewpoint, the pre-Lotus Sutra and provisional teachings, despised and discarded as incomplete, can all be included in the great ocean of the Lotus Sutra.

随(したが)つて法華の大海に入りぬれば爾前の権教とて嫌わるる者無きなり、

Therefore, since these provisional teachings of the pre-Lotus sutras enter into the great sea of the Lotus Sutra, there is no longer anything undesirable about them.

Once they flow into the sea of the Lotus Sutra, they are no longer shunned as provisional.

皆法華の大海の不可思議の徳として南無妙法蓮華経と云う一味にたたきなしつる

All are blended into the single flavor of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo because of the inconceivably wonderful function of the great sea of the Lotus Sutra.

The unfathomable workings of the great ocean of the Lotus Sutra can force all of the pre-Lotus Sutra teachings to fuse with the one and only flavor of Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo.


　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　つづく To be continued
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