The
Ultimate Principle
Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
By chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo we plum the very depths
of the unconscious reaching through the vast interiors of our souls and our contnuum of life until we break through to the very causal
nexus of existence itself.It is a vast journey of
exploration expanding the light of consciousness into the immense realms of our
patterning, the matrix of delusion imprinted on us from birth, the core of our body`s feelings and appetites, to the truth and dignity of
our very beingness.
Nichiren Daishonin created the tools or
technology to alleviate the sufferings of Humankind.When
you chant to the Dai Gohonzon you are facing
yourself, the infinity of your life and the life of the universe which are
inseparable. Paradoxically
this state of aloneness is compensated by your interdependence and connection
with all things.What Nichiren
Daishonin uncovered in the depths of his soul is the
greatest of discovery ever, for the Mystic truth innate in the Universe and all
Humankind allows us all to attain and establish absolute happiness in our lives
in this life time. We have our lives in our hands!!
Through all
ages, men have tried to fathom the meaning of life. They have realized that if
some direction or meaning could be given to our actions, great human forces
would be unleashed. So, very many answers must have been given to the question
of the meaning of it all. But they have been of all different sorts, and the
proponents of one answer have looked with horror at the actions of the
believers in another. Horror, because from a disagreeing point of view all the
great potentialities of the race were being channeled into a false and
confining blind alley. ... The dream is to find the open channel. (The Physicist Richard P. Feynman)
With Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
we are dealing with the unbounded constantly changing essence of things
manifesting as a dynamic entity which brings to life its abiding force wisdom
and search for truth and meaning. It is a Law which once hidden is now invoked
and revealed in the heart of Humankind. We may not understand this and before
did not even have a name for this but like the scientific discovery elucidating
the secret of flight, Nichiren Daishonin
discovered this profound Law of Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.
"The
ultimate principle originally had no name. But when the sage was pondering this
principle as he was giving names to all things, he realized that this principle
was the single mystic law of the simultaneity of cause and effect. He named
this law Myoho-Renge. This single
law of Myoho-Renge encompasses without flaw or
provision all phenomena within the ten worlds and the three thousand
realms. One who practices this law simultaneously engenders within himself the
causes and effects of the Buddha. When the sage adopted this law as his master,
his practice awakened him to the path of the Buddha, as a result of which he simultaneously
experienced the mystic cause and the mystic effect. In this way, he became a
Buddha fully endowed with mystic enlightenment." (Gosho,
p. 695)
The Buddha of limitless joy from eternal time
without beginning,
Nichikan Shonin stated:
"The
primary practice is none other than Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo,
which encompasses the true purpose of the advent of all the Buddhas
in the three periods of past present and future, the core of the twenty-eight
chapters of the Lotus Sutra, the heart of the Juryo
chapter of the essential teachings, the great Law that is hidden in the depths
of the Juryo chapter, the true essence that is
difficult to comprehend, the fusion of reality and wisdom, the very existence
of the Buddha of limitless joy from eternal time without beginning, three
thousand worlds in a momentary state of existence and the Buddha's endowment of
the three properties." (Nichiren Shoshu Seiten, p. 922)
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