“Those who keep Myōhō Renge Kyō will be able to recognize, without moving about, the scents of the sumanas-flowers, jātika-flowers, mallikā-flowers, campaka-flowers, pāṭala-flowers, red lotus flowers, blue lotus flowers, white lotus flowers, flower-trees and fruit-trees. They also will be able to recognize the scents of candana, aloes, tamālapattra and tagara, and the scents of tens of millions of kinds of mixed incense which are either powdered or made in lumps or made applicable to the skin. They also will be able to recognize the living beings including elephants, horses, cows, sheep, men, women, boys and girls by smell. They also will be able to recognize without fallacy grasses, trees, thickets and forests by smell, be the nearby or at a distance.”
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Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 1, 2025
“For many hundreds of thousands of billions of asaṃkhyas of kalpas, I studied and practiced the Dharma difficult to obtain, and [finally attained] Anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi. Now I will transmit [the Dharma] to you. Keep, read, recite and expound Myōhō Renge Kyō in which the Dharma is given, and cause all living beings to hear it and know it! Why is that? It is because I have great compassion. I do not begrudge anything. I am fearless. I wish to give the wisdom of the Buddha, the wisdom of the Tathāgata, the wisdom of the Self-Existing One, to all living beings.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Feb. 28, 2025
“Medicine-King! The Bodhisattvas who, having been surprised at hearing Myōhō Renge Kyō, doubt and fear Myōhō Renge Kyō, know this, are beginners in Bodhisattvahood. The Śrāvakas who, having been surprised at hearing Myōhō Renge Kyō, doubt and fear Myōhō Renge Kyō, know this, are men of arrogance.”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Feb. 27, 2025
“Flower-Virtue! Now you see Wonderful-Voice Bodhisattva here and nowhere else. But formerly he transformed himself into various living beings and expounded Myōhō Renge Kyō to others in various places. He became King Brahman, King Sakra, Freedom God, Great-Freedom God, a great general in heaven, Vaisravana Heavenly-King, a wheel-turning-holy-king, the king of a small country, a rich man, a householder, a prime minister, a brahmana, a bhikṣu, a bhikṣunī, an upāsakā, an upāsikā, the wife of a rich man, that of a householder, that of a prime minister, that of a brahmana, a boy, a girl, a god, a dragon, a yakṣa, a gandharva, an asura, a garuda, a kiṃnara, a mahoraga, a human being or a nonhuman being. [After he transformed himself into one or another of these living beings,] he expounded Myōhō Renge Kyō, and saved the hellish denizens, hungry spirits, animals, and all the other living beings in the places of difficulties. When he entered an imperial harem, he became a woman and expounded Myōhō Renge Kyō.”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Feb. 26, 2025
Because I see that my soldiers led by generals, that is, by sages and saints, have already obtained extraordinary merits in their fight with the Mara of the five aggregates, with the Mara of illusions, and with the Mara of death, and that they have already eliminated the three poisons, left the triple world, and destroyed the nets of the Maras, I now expound Myōhō Renge Kyō with great joy. Myōhō Renge Kyō leads all living beings to the knowledge of all things. I did not expound Myōhō Renge Kyō before because, if I had done so, many people in the world would have hated it and few would have believed it.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Feb. 25, 2025
The Buddhas sat at the place of enlightenment,
And obtained the hidden core.
Anyone who keeps Myōhō Renge Kyō will be able
To obtain the same before long.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Feb. 24, 2025
It is not difficult
To keep the store
Of eighty-four thousand teachings
Expounded in the sūtras
Composed of the twelve elements,
And expound it to people,
And cause the hearers to obtain
The six supernatural powers.It is difficult
To hear and receive Myōhō Renge Kyō,
And ask the meanings of Myōhō Renge Kyō
After my extinction.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Feb. 23, 2025
Thereupon the Buddha said to the great Bodhisattvas headed by Superior-Practice:
“The supernatural powers of the Buddhas are as immeasurable, limitless, and inconceivable as previously stated. But I shall not be able to tell all the merits of Myōhō Renge Kyō to those to whom this sūtra is to be transmitted even if I continue telling them by my supernatural powers for many hundreds of thousands of billions of asaṃkhyas of kalpas.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Feb. 22, 2025
The people were under the pressure
Of various sufferings.
They were fighting with the Maras
In order to emancipate themselves
From suffering.
Because I saw all this,
I expounded various teachings to them.
I expounded many sūtras with skillful expedients.Now I know that they can understand Myōhō Renge Kyō.
Therefore, I expound Myōhō Renge Kyō to them lastly
Just as the king took the brilliant gem
Out of his top-knot
And gave it [to the bravest man lastly].
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Feb. 21, 2025
Anyone who rejoices at hearing Myōhō Renge Kyō,
And who receives Myōhō Renge Kyō respectfully,
Know this, has already reached
The stage of avaivartika.