Gosho 御義口伝 Orally Transmitted Teachings on the Lotus Sutra Part 1

日蓮等の類(たぐ)いは此(こ)の五濁(じょく)を離るるなり、

Nichiren and his followers have removed themselves from these five impurities.

I, Nichiren, and my followers are not affected by the five impurities.

我(が)此土(しど)安穏(あんのん)なれば劫濁(ごうじょく)に非ず・

Since, as the sutra says, “This, my land, remains safe and tranquil” (chapter sixteen, Life Span), we are not affected by the impurity of the age.

Since [the Lotus Sutra states], “this land of mine is peaceful,” we are free from the impurity of the age.

実相無作(むさ)の仏身なれば衆生濁に非ず・

Since we manifest the unconditioned Buddha body of the true aspect, we are not affected by the impurity of living beings.

Since our bodies, just as they are, manifest the true aspect of the Buddha’s entity, we are emancipated from the impurity of living beings.

煩悩(ぼんのう)即(そく)菩提(ぼだい)生(しょう)死(じ)即(そく)涅槃(ねはん)の妙(みょう)旨(し)なれば煩悩(ぼんのう)濁に非ず・

Since we understand the wonderful truth that earthly desires are enlightenment and that the sufferings of birth and death are nirvana, we are not affected by the impurity of desire.

Because of the cherished doctrines of “earthly desires are in themselves enlightenment” and “the essence of nirvana exists within the sufferings of life and death,” we are liberated from the impurity of desire.

五百塵点劫(じんてんごう)より無始(むし)本有(ほんぬ)の身なれば命濁(みょうじょく)に非ざるなり、

Since we possess the Buddha body that has existed without beginning from numberless major world system dust particle kalpas ago, we are not affected by the impurity of life span.

From the time without beginning or the age of Five Hundred [myriad] Dust-particle Kalpas ago, our lives have existed eternally, and thus we are free from the impurity of life.

正直(しょうじき)捨方便但説(しゃほうべんたんせつ)無(む)上道(じょうどう)の行者なれば見濁(けんじょく)に非るなり。

And since we are votaries of the Lotus Sutra who “honestly discarding expedient means, / will preach only the unsurpassed way” (chapter two), we are not affected by the impurity of view.

Since we “honestly discard expedient means and preach only the unsurpassed way” [as instructed in the sutra], we are unaffected by the impurity of view.

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