Life Experience

We learn in Chapter 28 that in order to obtain the dharma there are certain things that must happen in our lives. The distinction here is made that merely hearing and being exposed to the dharma are different from embracing and experiencing the Dharma. When we obtain something it is not a casual experience but a deeper inner life change. It is the difference between thinking and being. Obtaining the Dharma is a life experience.

Lecture on the Lotus Sutra