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2020年 09月 06日

81, Erecting the Great Gohonzon of the High Sanctuary of the Fundamental Teachings (3)

                       Japanese Edition


In the first place what does Nam-myoho-renge-kyo written in the center of grand Gohonzon mean?

Nichiren tells about Nam-myoho-renge-kyo in "The Orally-transmitted of Doctrine" that lectured to Nikko who inherited all doctrines of Nichiren.

“The Orally-Transmitted of Doctrine says: Nam is a Sanskrit. Here, it is called "kimyo" in Japanese, and ''ki" means dedicating, and "Myo" means life. The object of dedicating is a Law and a person. In terms of the person, one dedicates one's life to Shakyamuni Buddha; in terms of the Law, one dedicates one's life to the Lotus Sutra. 'Ki' means dedicating to the principle of eternal and unchanging truth of the theoretical teachings. "Myo” means basing on the wisdom of the truth of the radical teachings that functions in accordance with changing circumstances. Kimyo, dedicating, is Nam-myoho-renge-kyo itself.

The commentary says. "The eternal unchanged truth, and the wisdom to be created at every situation changing. These are tranquil shining in a single moment of life”. Also, “ki” is the mind Law, and “Myo” is the physical Law. The one and only ultimate teachings mean that a body and a mind are not two. The commentary says. “Leading us to the only ultimate truth. This is called Mahayana”. In addition, the Daishonin says, Nam of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is in Sanskrit, myoho-renge-kyo is Chinese words. It means that Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is chanted in India and China at the same time. In addition, he says, it is called Sad-dharma-puṇḍarīka-sūtra in Sanskrit. It says of Myoho-renge-kyo. Sad is Myo, dharma is , puṇḍarīka is Renge, sūtra is Kyo. These words are bodies of sacred Buddha, are the expression that the nine worlds are namely the world of Buddha. Myo is an awaking. Ho is a darkness. The marvelous Law means that an awaking and darkness is as one body. Renge is the two Law of cause and effect, and cause and effect are one body too. Kyo means the language sound of all creatures. A commentary says, “The voice carries out the work of the Buddha, and this is called Kyo”. Also, Kyo is defined as that which is constant and unchanging in the three existences of past, present, and future. The existing world is Myo, the existing world is Ho, the existing world is Renge, the existing world is Kyo. Renge is the bodies of the Buddha of the nine saints seated on the eight-petaled lotus. Consider this over well and carefully”.

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo means the existence that dedicates life to myoho-renge-kyo and embodies it, namely the Nyorai of the origin of the infinite past.

Sad is Myo, Dharma is , puṇḍarīka is Renge, sūtra is Kyo.

"Sad" means right or superior, but Kumarajiva translated it as myo in Chinese. According to Buddha having preached that these teachings (Lotus Sutra) were both unbelievable and hard to be understood, it is thought it was meant of mysterious. The Dharma is Law, and puṇḍarīka means white lotus flower. In other words, Myoho-renge-kyo becomes the mysterious teachings such as the white lotus flower. Why did Shakyamuni Buddha use the white lotus flower as a symbol of the marvelous Law? The white means the cleanliness, and it means that it is not violated in greed, anger, and stupidity. In addition, the lotus flower blooms from all over the mud unlike other flowers and tree flower. The mud means worldly desires, and the flower absorbs nourishment from all over the mud, and the clean large lotus flower to make bloom symbolizes "worldly desires namely Buddhahood". In addition, the lotus flower has the fruit which is called the lotus root at the same time when it blooms. This symbolizes that cause and effect are same time.

Well, what is the marvelous Law that is not invaded by the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance, and which possesses "the worldly desires namely Buddhahood" and the same time of the cause and effect?

Nichiren declares, "a form of Law in Myoho-renge-kyo is the benevolent mind of all creatures" in the Orally-Transmitted of Doctrins. In other words, a marvelous Law is the nature of Buddha indwelling all creatures, and it is benevolence mind. Doing nam (dedicate life) to the grand Gohonzon means that person opens the nature of Buddha, namely the benevolence mind, that is indwells own life.

Similarly, Shakyamuni Buddha says in 'the Means of Temporary' of the second chapter of the Lotus Sutra, "I make them who are equal with me, prevent them from being different with me", and he declares that he will open up the nature of Buddha of all creatures by the same way as him and makes them to the beings of benevolence.

And in the metaphor chapter of the third in the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha gave the prophecy that Shariputra would become the Nyorai of flower light in the future. He gives the prophecies that the priests, nuns, men and women believers would become Buddhas in the distant future in sequence following this at the gathering where Lotus Sutra is preached in the Ryoju Mountain. Shakyamuni Buddha continued censuring two kinds of people, the voice-hearers and the Shomon, they did not attain Buddhahood before preaching the Lotus Sutra. Why did Shakyamuni Buddha continue giving prophecies so that in a sense seems to be even an excessive, at a place of the sermon of the Lotus Sutra? Myoho-renge-kyo is the ultimate teachings reached to all Law, which runs through the metagalaxy, and if a person keeps Myoho-renge-kyo, and preaches it to all other creatures, and let others preach it again, this is because it meant he surely would become a Buddha. And Nichiren Daishonin is outwardly the leader of the Bodhisattvas appearing from the ground and is the rebirth of Jogyo and he had received the mission of propagating Myoho-renge-kyo after the nirvana of Shakyamuni Buddha in the chapter of god's power of 21th in the Lotus Sutra.

However, his substance is the fundamental Buddha in the Latter-Day of the Law, and erected the grand Gohonzon, and he had given prophecies to all the followers of the Lotus Sutra who believed to the grand Gohonzon would become the Buddha in a future life in the Latter-Day of the Law by writing as follows," The petitioner of the sanctuary of the fundamental teachings is Kunishige Yashiro and the followers of the Lotus Sutra and they respectfully stated it."




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