🗣️Praying to the buddhas to ask them to intercede and change something is usually not real prayer. Praying to live in accordance with the wishes of the buddhas is what is important.—Nikkyo Niwano
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📖“Hearing her name, seeing her physical form,
And calling her to mind is never in vain,
For she is able to eliminate the sufferings of existence.—The Lotus Sutra
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🗣️You are sadly mistaken if you think you can obtain some merit when you have burned so many sticks of incense and sat down one morning to diligently read the Lotus Sutra for a few hours.
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📖“She divided it into two parts, offering one part to Shakyamuni Buddha and the other to the stupa of the Buddha Abundant Treasures.—The Lotus Sutra
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🗣️The greatest purpose of the teaching of a manifest-body buddha is to help living beings realise the true way of looking at things, to open their eyes to the Truth. This is the very foundation of liberation.—Nikkyo Niwano
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📖“Similarly, this Dharma Flower Sutra enables living beings to take leave of all suffering and all pain and disease, and to completely undo the fetters of birth and death.—The Lotus Sutra
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🗣️True faith will never arise when there is no questioning of why we are being sustained as we are by something immense.—Nikkyo Niwano
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📖“For the sake of those good sons and good daughters in ages to come who do believe in the wisdom of the Tathagata, you should elucidate this Dharma Flower Sutra so that they will hear it and know it and thereby attain the Buddha wisdom.—The Lotus Sutra
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Nichiren Daishonin answered "what happens when you die?" from exile on Sado Island in 1272, seven months after surviving his own execution. Premieres Sat Sep 12, come say hello in the chat youtu.be/x9yHIP6aGKc #NichirenBuddhism #Buddhism #LifeAndDeath

🗣️The human spirit naturally yearns to advance to the point of attaining buddhahood. We live in this world for the purpose of training our spirits toward that end.—Nikkyo Niwano
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📖“For countless hundreds of thousands of millions of myriads of kalpas, I have practiced this rare teaching of Supreme Perfect Awakening, and now I am entrusting it to you.
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Nichiren once told an 80-year-old man on the edge of death that he was, in his own aging body, the treasure tower described in chapter eleven of the Lotus Sutra. #NichirenBuddhism #LotusSutra #Buddhism

🗣️The important thing is to realize at all times that we are ‘being sustained by the Buddha’ and to always be prepared to ‘live in a way that embodies full recognition of the circumstance of being sustained’.—Nikkyo Niwano
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📖“Just as the light of the sun and the moon
Can chase all darkness away,
So these people, practicing in this world,
Can bring living beings out of darkness
And cause countless bodhisattvas
To at last abide in the One Vehicle.—The Lotus Sutra
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🗣️We can say that whether one has been born into this world as a result of karma or as a result of aspiration is determined by one's degree of self-realisation.—Nikkyo Niwano
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📖“All the buddhas, each seated on a lion seat under a jeweled tree, did likewise, extending their long, broad tongues and radiating immeasurable light.—The Lotus Sutra
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