Gosho Study #18: Reply to a Believer Regard your service to your lord’ as the practice of the Lotus Sutra. This is what is meant by No worldly affairs of life or work are ever contrary to the true reality2.” (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin-1 p 905) There Is No […]
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Gosho Study #17: The True Aspect of All Phenomena Believe in the Gohonzon, the supreme object of devotion in all of Jambudvipa. Be sure to strengthen your faith, and receive the protection of Shakyamuni, Many Treasures, and the Buddhas of the ten directions. Exert yourself in the two ways […]
Gosho Study #16: On Persecutions Befalling the Sage Each of you should summon up the courage (lit heart) of a lion kin g and never succumb to threats from anyone. The lion king fears no other beast, nor do its cubs. Slanderers are like barking foxes, but Nichiren’s followers are […]
Gosho #15: The Pure and Far Reaching Voice The benefit of the Lotus Sutra is such that even a single word of it embodies the threefold blessings of Shakyamuni, Many Treasures, and the Buddhas of the ten directions. To illustrate, it is like a wish-granting jewel. One such jewel is […]
Gosho #14: On Rebuking Slander of the Law and Eradicating Sins I am praying that, no matter how troubled the times may become, the Lotus Sutra and the ten demon daughters will protect all of you, praying as earnestly as though to produce fire from damp wood, or to obtain […]
Gosho #13 – The Person and the Law “Shakyamuni Buddha teaches, however, that one who makes offerings to the votary of the Lotus Sutra in the latter age for even a single day will gain benefit a hundred, thousand, ten thousand million times greater than one would by offering […]
Gosho Study #12: Reply to the Lay Priest Takahashi When all others hate me, the fact that you have placed even a bit of trust in me and, moreover, have come all the way here to visit me, cannot be ascribed to the karma of your present life alone. Surely […]
Gosho Study #11: The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra My disciples, form your ranks and follow me, and surpass even Mahakashyapa and Ananda, Tien-tai or Dengyo! If you quail before the threats of the ruler of this little island country and abandon your faith, how will you […]
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Gosho Study #9: Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life It must be ties of karma from the distant past that have destined you to become my disciple at a time like this. Shakyamuni and Many Treasures certainly realized this truth. The sutra’s statement, “Those persons who had heard the […]
