[T]he rākṣasas said to the Buddha:
“World-Honored One! We also will protect the person who keeps, reads and recites Myōhō Renge Kyō, and acts according to Myōhō Renge Kyō so that he may be peaceful, that he may have no trouble, and that poison taken by him may be neutralized.”
Category Archives: Promises
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 18, 2025
“Universal-Sage! Anyone who keeps, reads and recites Myōhō Renge Kyō, memorizes Myōhō Renge Kyō correctly, studies Myōhō Renge Kyō, practices Myōhō Renge Kyō, and copies Myōhō Renge Kyō, should be considered to see me, and hear Myōhō Renge Kyō from my mouth. He should be considered to be making offerings to me. He should be considered to be praised by me with the word ‘Excellent!’ He should be considered to be caressed by me on the head. He should be considered to be covered with my robe.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 17, 2025
When [Never-Despising Bodhisattva] was about to pass away, he heard [from a voice] in the sky the twenty thousand billion gāthās of Myōhō Renge Kyō, which had been expounded by the Powerful-Voice-King Buddha. Having kept all these gāthās, he was able to have his eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind purified as previously stated. Having his six sense-organs purified, he was able to prolong his life for two hundred billion nayuta more years. He expounded Myōhō Renge Kyō to many people [in his prolonged life]. The arrogant bhikṣus, bhikṣunīs, upāsakās and upāsikās, that is, the four kinds of devotees who had abused him and caused him to be called Never-Despising, saw that he had obtained great supernatural powers, the power of eloquence, and the great power of good tranquility. Having seen all this, and having heard the Dharma from him, they took faith in him, and followed him.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 16, 2025
Expound Myōhō Renge Kyō to the Buddha’s sons
Who keep the precepts
As cleanly and as purely
As they keep gems,
And who seek
The sūtra of the Great Vehicle!
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 15, 2025
“Bhikṣus! I will collect Bodhisattvas and Śrāvakas and expound Myōhō Renge Kyō to them when I realize that the time of my Nirvāṇa is drawing near, that the living beings have become pure in heart, that they can understand the truth of the Void by firm faith, and that they have already entered deep into dhyāna-concentration. No one in the world can attain [true] extinction by the two vehicles. [True] extinction can be attained only by Myōhō Renge Kyō.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 14, 2025
[Mañjuśrī said] … “How should an [ordinary] Bodhisattva-mahāsattvas expound Myōhō Renge Kyō in the evil world after [your extinction]?”
The Buddha said to him:
“A Bodhisattva-mahāsattvas who wishes to expound Myōhō Renge Kyō in the evil world after [my extinction] should practice four sets of things.
“First, he should perform proper practices, approach proper things, and then expound this sūtra to all living beings.
“Mañjuśrī! What are the proper practices the Bodhisattva-mahāsattvas should perform? He should be patient, mild and meek. He should not be rash, timorous, or attached to anything. He should see things as they are. He should not be attached to his nonattachment to anything. Nor should he be attached to his seeing thing as they are. These are the proper practices the Bodhisattva-mahāsattvas should perform.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 13, 2025
The Buddha said to Medicine-King:
“If after my extinction anyone rejoices, even on a moment’s thought, at hearing even a gāthā or a phrase of Myōhō Renge Kyō, I will assure him of his future attainment of Anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 12, 2025
“Flower-Virtue! This Wonderful-Voice Bodhisattva protects all living beings in this Sahā-World. He transforms himself into one or another of these various living beings in this Sahā World and expounds Myōhō Renge Kyō to all living beings without reducing his supernatural powers, [his power of] transformation, and his wisdom. He illumines this Sahā World with the many [rays of light] of his wisdom, and causes all living beings to know what they should know.”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 11, 2025
At that time the gods in the skies [of the worlds of the ten quarters] said loudly:
“There is a world called Sahā beyond a distance of many hundreds of thousands of billions of asaṃkhyas of worlds. In that world lives a Buddha called Śākyamuni. He is now expounding to Bodhisattva-mahāsattvas a sūtra of the Great Vehicle, called the ‘Myōhō Renge Kyō, the Dharma for Bodhisattvas, the Dharma Upheld by the Buddhas.’ Rejoice from the bottom of your hearts! Bow and make offerings to Śākyamuni Buddha!”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 10, 2025
Some bhikṣus who live in a period in which no Buddha lives after my extinction may not believe the Dharma after they attain Arhatship because in that period it will be difficult to meet a person who keeps, reads, and recites Myōhō Renge Kyō, and understands the meanings of Myōhō Renge Kyō. They will be able to understand the Dharma when they meet another Buddha.
“Śāriputra and all of you present here! Understand the Dharma by faith with all your hearts! There is no vehicle other than the One Buddha-Vehicle.”