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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2022 12:05:19 GMT -6
A 'real' Buddhist would never describe himself as a Buddhist.
Yes, that means Lowell is full of more poop.
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Post by lowell on Feb 20, 2022 17:17:22 GMT -6
A Buddha generally does not tell others that they are a Buddha. It is realized by those around them if they are.
I am not experiencing enlightenment yet, and so I am not manifesting enlightenment.
In Chapter 10 of the Lotus Sutra is the account of what the historical Buddha said to Bodhisattva Medicine King.
The Buddha said to Medicine King: "In addition, if after the Thus Come One has passed into extinction there should be someone who listens to the Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law, even one verse or one phrase, and for a moment thinks of it with joy, I will likewise bestow on him a prophesy that he will attain anuttara-samyak-sambodhi. Again if there are persons who embrace, read, recite, expound and copy the Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law, even only one verse, and look upon this sutra with the same reverence as they would the Buddha, presenting various offerings of flowers, incense, necklaces, powdered incense, paste incense, incense for burning, silken canopies, streamers and banners, clothing and music, and pressing their palms together in reverence, then, Medicine King, you should understand that such persons have already offered alms to a hundred thousand million Buddhas and in the place of the Buddhas have fulfilled their great vow, and because they take pity on living beings they have been born in this human world
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Post by lowell on Feb 20, 2022 17:40:29 GMT -6
Myoho-Renge-Kyo is one phrase of the Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law. In fact it means Wonderful Law of the Lotus Flower Sutra. Everyone who reads this post has read one phrase of the Lotus Sutra. If they felt only a moment of joy from it, they shall become enlightened.
In his guidance, Sixty-eighth High Priest Nichinyo Shonin On the Occasion of the October Kosen-rufu Shodai Ceremony, (Oct 3,2021)
"Today, in the Latter Day of the Law, we must strongly teach Myoho-Renge-Kyo to those without the seed of Buddhahood and make them listen to it, so that they can form a poison-drum relationship with it. In other words, now is the time to make them form a reverse relationship.
The poison-drum relationship is a metaphor expounded in the Nirvana Sutra. The poison-drum is a drum smeared with poison. It is said that when a drum smeared with poison is beaten, all those who hear the sound of the drum will instantly die, whether they wish to hear it or not. Making the slanderers listen to the Lotus Sutra, even if they do not wish to listen, indicates making them form a relationship with the Lotus Sutra, which is the cause for the attainment of Buddhahood. Even if they do not listen and oppose it, they eventually will attain Buddhahood through a reverse relationship. This is likened to a drum smeared with poison.
Furthermore, those with a reverse relationship, those who once slandered the Lotus Sutra, eventually will be able to attain enlightenment through this very relationship they formed with the Lotus Sutra in the past.
The Daishonin expounds the following in the Gosho, Reply to Ueno (Ueno dono-gohenji):
Once there was a jealous woman in India who so hated her husband, that in a fit of anger, she destroyed everything in her home. Fury transformed her appearance, her face twisted with rage….She seized the fifth scroll of the Lotus Sutra, which for years her husband had recited, and brutally stomped on it with both feet. Later she died and fell into hell, all except for her feet. The guards of hell tried to beat them down with iron staves, but were unable to do so…
(Gosho, p. 1358; The Gosho of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, p. 39, Summary)
In the same Gosho, it is stated as follows:
Because by trampling upon the Lotus Sutra, her feet had formed a relationship with it, and although it was a reverse relationship, they benefitted from it.
(Gosho, p. 1359; The Gosho of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, pp. 39 & 41)
This jealous woman did not fall into hell due to a reverse relationship that was formed when she trampled on the Lotus Sutra with both of her feet. In other words, it is extremely important to form a relationship with the Lotus Sutra, for the sake of one’s attainment of Buddhahood, even if it is a reverse relationship. "
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2022 18:28:47 GMT -6
Well, I realize that you are NOT a Buddhist.
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Post by lowell on Feb 20, 2022 18:39:10 GMT -6
In your opinion, were the historical Buddha and his monks and nuns and lay followers in India buddhists?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2022 8:07:42 GMT -6
In your opinion, were the historical Buddha and his monks and nuns and lay followers in India buddhists? Did they go around announcing to everybody that they were Buddhists? Did they introduce themselves as Buddhists? That's stupid. That's like a Catholic saying to someone they just met, "Hi, my name is John and I'm a Catholic." Do you believe a real Buddhist wishes or implies harm upon others who disagree with them? YOU are no Buddhist, phony. |
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Post by lowell on Feb 21, 2022 15:16:09 GMT -6
You failed to answer the question. It is a yes or no question. Here is a clue.
The book Prisoners of Shangri-La: Tibetan Buddhism and the West quotes Isaac Schmidt as saying,
“ It seems hardly necessary to remark that the term lamaism is purely European invention and not known in Asia. The peoples of that faith call themselves followers of the teachings of the Buddha and are consequently, according to the European expression, Buddhists: the meaning of this term agrees completely with the Sanskrit Buddha. “
When I share the teachings of the Buddha of India or the teachings of the original Buddha, Nichiren, it is an act of mercy for you. Even those who slander those teachings will attain enlightenment. The Wonderful Law of the Lotus Flower Teaching is indeed that powerful, that it saves even those who oppose it.
If, in your opinion, the direct followers of the Buddha's teachings who lived when the Buddha lived in India, are indeed Buddhists, then are those people like Aryasimha and Nagarjuna, and Vasubandhu, and Kumarajiva Buddhists? How about Tian-Tai and Dengyo? Are they too, Buddhists? How about Nichiren and the successive high priests of Nichiren Shoshu? Are they Buddhists?
Please tell me, which of those people I asked about are, in your opinion, not Buddhists, and which are?
The Buddha taught 80,000 sutras over a period of 45 years. The majority of these were specific teachings for specific people. The first Sutra, the Flower Garland Sutra was a general teaching and only surpassed in profundity by the Lotus Sutra. The last 3 sutras, The Sutra of infinite meanings, the Lotus Sutra , and the Nirvana Sutra are collectively considered the Lotus Sutra teachings.
The Buddha's disciples had been taught by him in many existences in the past and only needed minor adjustments to ensure their enlightenment.
The Lotus Sutra was taught for the people of this age, who have never encountered the Buddha in prior existences and is a complete medicine that cures all the incorrect beliefs and sufferings of today's people. This Sutra was transferred to the leader (Bodhisattva Superior Practices) of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth who appeared, rising out of the Earth when Chapter 15, Emerging From The Earth, was taught."
It is important for followers of the Buddha's teachings to know who fulfilled the mission of Bodhisattva Superior Practices when the Latter Day of the Law began.
The Buddha predicted that his teachings would lose their "flavor" (effectiveness) after 2000 years had passed. That marked the beginning of the Latter Day of the Law, the age of horrors. The Great Collection Sutra predicts that it will be an “age of quarrels and disputes,” when monks will disregard the precepts and feud constantly among themselves, when erroneous views will prevail, and when Shakyamuni’s teachings will “be obscured and lost.”
The “Medicine King” (twenty-third) chapter of the Lotus Sutra says, “After I have passed into extinction, in the last five-hundred-year period you must spread it abroad widely throughout Jambudvīpa and never allow it to be cut off.” Tian-tai (538–597) states in The Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra, “In the last five-hundred-year period, the mystic way will spread and benefit humankind far into the future,” and Dengyō (767–822) says in An Essay on the Protection of the Nation, “The Former and Middle Days are almost over, and the Latter Day is near at hand. Because I have been fortunate enough to be introduced to Nichiren Shoshu, I have the great benefit of being a true follower of the teachings of the Buddha. However I slandered it when I first encountered it, and received divine punishment. I had my eye badly injured in the Army and I was poisoned by rat poison about the same time. The resulting glaucoma (which developed about a month before I had the good fortune to meet the supreme object of worship) and the bleeding kidneys from the rat poison, were miraculously cured when I chanted to the Gohonzon (supreme object of worship). My own poison drum relationship resulted in strong faith through the great power of Myoho-Renge-Kyo. Experiencing a miracle has a way of doing that.  |
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