2020年 09月 05日
It is clear from the examples such as a letter, paper money, the contract document that the thing which wrote by a letter of an alphabet on paper has power. But proof to become the grounds for something is necessary. In addition, they must possess the ability understanding the written meaning. The false letter is useless. The counterfeit bill is punished. We become the offender if we make the false contract documents. Conversely, the genuine paper money has a national guarantee. Even if the people who still do hunting life in a forest of the heart of a mountain without the custom of the monetary economy, received a bunch of dollars, they will only put it on a bonfire. The letter which a person thinks for a partner and wrote may become the writing changing the lifetime if the other party to receive had ability receiving the thought. The reason why a person believes a thing written on paper is because the thought of the person who created it, or the intentions such as organizations do so-called transfer changing to paper. The soul of the fundamental Buddha of the Latter-Days of the Law, in other words, the life of mercy concretely transfers to the Gohonzon which Nichiren revealed. The person can express the nature of Buddha being hidden in own soul for the first time by chanting a title to this Gohonzon. Nichiren likens this hidden Buddha's nature to a bird of the basket and likens a chanting title to a bird flying in the sky. “Therefore, when once we chant Myoho-renge-kyo, with just that single sound manifest the Buddha nature of all Buddhas, all bodhisattvas; and all hearers of voice; all the deities such as Brahmā, Shakra, and King Yama; the sun and moon, and the myriad stars; the gods of heaven and earth, and all living beings in the worlds of hell, hunger, beast, anger, humanity, and rapture. The benefit is immeasurable and infinitude. If we worship Myoho-renge-kyo of our mind as the Gohonzon, the nature of Buddha in our mind calls Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. This condition to call each other is called Buddha. For example, when a caged bird sings, birds who are flying in the sky are thereby called and gather around, and when the birds flying in the sky gather around, the bird in the cage tries to get out together. When with our mouths we chant the marvelous Law, our inner Buddha's nature, being called, will appear by all means. The Buddha's natures of Brahmā and Shakra, being called, will protect us, and Buddha's natures of Buddha and bodhisattvas, being summoned, will rejoice. Therefore, 'If a person has this Lotus Sutra even during a little, I will delight, all the Buddha is same too'. It is this mind that preached so. All the Buddha of the three existences, past, the present and future, too, had attained Buddhahood by the five words of Myoho-renge-kyo. Five characters are the purpose why all the Buddha of the three existences appeared in the world, it is the marvelous Law where all living beings can attain the Buddhahood. You understand these meanings well really and, on this road for becoming Buddha, should chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo without arrogance or bias.” ‘About Becoming Buddha at the Beginning Stage of Religious Life of the Lotus Sutra’ Nichiren preaches that chanting the title of Namu Myohorenge-kyo to the Honzon is the all of training all to become a Buddha. Nichiren expressed this Gohonzon for the first time in Sado island. It is said that the letter conveys the mind of the person and the voice does for Buddha. If a person chants Nam-myoho-renge-kyo to the Gohonon where Nichiren dyed his soul in the sumi and wrote, the practice of Buddhism of the Latter-Day of the Law will reach the the final point of arrival. Nichiren wanted to convey that method of attaining Buddhahood to all people of the Latter-Days of the Law, by any means. He talks about the magnificence of this Gohonzon himself. “How mysterious it is for Nichiren. During two hundred years from the Latter-Days of the Law, Nichiren had revealed this marvelous mandala that even those such as Nagarjuna and Vasubandhu, Tientai and Myolaku were unable to express it, as the flag mark of propagation of the Lotus Sutra for the first time. This mandala is in no way my invention. This is the Gohonzon which the supreme Shakyamuni Buddha and all incarnations of him printed to a wood block in the tower of Taho Nyorai. Therefore, the five letters of the title are placed in the center, while the four kings of Heaven are seated at the four corners of the treasure tower. Shakyamuni, Nyorai Taho, and the four leaders of the Bodhisattvas who appeared from the ground are side by side at the summit. Seated below them are the bodhisattvas, including Fugen and Manjushri, and the hearers of voice including Shariputra and Maudgalyayana. The gods of the sun and moon, the devil king of the sixth Heaven, the dragon king, an asura, and also King Fudo and King Aizen are in their territories of the south and north. The evil and treacherous Devadatta and the ignorant dragon king's daughter form a group. Also, there are the goddess of ogre, and her ten daughters who usurp the lives of people of the three thousand worlds. In addition, there are the God of the sun, the great bodhisattva Hachiman, Heaven god of the seven generations, the land deities of five generations, all of the small and big gods of Heaven and land, are the guardian deity of Japan. The body of gods are ranged in rows. There are all the temporary gods that originated from the actual gods. The chapter of treasure tower states, 'Buddha adjoined all the people, raising them. Therefore, every member was in the sky.' Without exception, all these Buddhas, bodhisattvas, saints, and all the miscellaneous crowd of the two worlds and the eight groups who appear in the 'Introduction' chapter of the Lotus Sutra reside first and last in this Gohonzon and illuminated by the light of five characters of the marvelous Law, they become the venerable form that they inherently possess. The Gohonzon means this.” 'Reply to the Lady Nichinyo' or 'About the Feature of the Gohonzon.' Furthermore, Nichiren answers a person doubting the legitimacy of this Gohonzon. “Question: Is there the prediction of a Buddha? Answer, The Buddha states, ‘In the five-hundred-year of the latter this will spread widely throughout the whole world.' The Great Teacher Tientai predicts, ‘In the five-hundred-year of the latter, the world will flourish by the marvelous Law for a long'. Myolaku predicts, ‘The profit received from sowing the seed of Buddhahood is absolutely at the beginning of the Latter-Days of the Law.' The Great Teacher Dengyo says, 'The former days and middle days of the Law are almost over, and the Latter-Days are near at hand.' ‘The Latter Days of the Law are near at hand', this quotation means that his times were not becoming the times of propagation. The Great Teacher Dengyo, in Japan, foresaw the beginning of the Latter-Days of the Law and says, 'If saying times, the end of the Zoho or the beginning of the Latter-Day. If regarding the land, it will be the east of Tang and the west of Katsu. As for the person, he will be born from the five turbidities in the times of struggle'. The scripture says; ‘Hatred and jealousy toward this sutra had abounded even when was the Nyorai was in the world. Needless to say after the death of Nyorai.' This explanation is to the point really'. ‘The times of struggle' of this commentary. It refers to the two disasters that are occurring at present, the internal strife and the invasion from the western sea. At this time the countless bodhisattvas (note) will appear from the ground, and the Gohonzon, the holiest in the world, will be erected in this country with the fundamental Shakyamuni Buddha playing a subordinate role. ‘True Object of Worship’.
Continued to 'Nichimyo is promised to receive the Gohonzon from Nichiren' Second volume table of Contents (note) The countless Bodhisattvas who appeared from the earth. They are the Bodhisattvas preached in the 15th chapter of 'appearing from the ground' of the Lotus Sutra. They are expressed with "the Bodhisattvas of number such as particle dusts of 1000 worlds emerging from the ground" in the chapter of the 21st 'divine power'. Also, they are said to emerge from the ground with the number of sand of 60000 Ganges. The leaders of bodhisattvas emerging from the ground are four people including Jogyo. “My disciples! Consider this deeply in your minds! The countless Bodhisattvas of the earth were the disciples of Shakyamuni Buddha from the time first he taught it and they had been attaining Buddhahood in the remote past. But they did not come to his place when Shakyamuni first attained Buddhahood in this world, nor did they come to a grove of sal trees when the Buddha entered nirvana. There is a fault of the unfilial there. They did not appear also when the Buddha preached the first fourteen chapters of the Lotus Sutra, the theoretical teachings, and they left the assembly when the Buddha preached the last six chapters of the essential teachings. They only attended the Buddha during the first eight chapters of the essential teachings. These truly noble bodhisattvas made a solemn oath to Shakyamuni Buddha, Taho Nyorai, and all the Buddha of the ten directions. Is it possible that they will not come out at the beginning of the Latter-Days of the Law? You must know it, in the times for the practice of shakubuku the four bodhisattvas appear as wise kings who condemn ignorant kings, and in the times for the practice of shōju they appear as priests to embrace and spread the correct teachings!” ‘True Object of Worship’
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