Myōhō Renge Kyō opens the gate of expedients and reveals the seal of the truth. The store of Myōhō Renge Kyō is sound and deep. No one can reach its core. Now I show Myōhō Renge Kyō to the Bodhisattvas in order to teach them and cause them to attain [Anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi].
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Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 30, 2025
“Mañjuśrī! It is difficult to hear even the title of Myōhō Renge Kyō [even if you try to do so, walking about] innumerable worlds. Needless to say, it is more difficult to see, keep, read and recite Myōhō Renge Kyō.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 29, 2025
Anyone who keeps Myōhō Renge Kyō should be considered
To have already built a monastery
Made of the cow-head candana,
installed with thirty-two beautiful halls,
Eight times as tall as the tala-tree,
Provided with delicious food and drink,
With wonderful garments and bedding,
With accommodations for one hundred thousand people,
With gardens, forests, and pools for bathing,
And with promenades and caves for the practice of dhyāna.
He should be considered lo have already offered
That monastery to me in my presence.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 28, 2025
Anyone who keeps Myōhō Renge Kyō
Will be able to expound
The meanings of the teachings,
And the names and words of Myōhō Renge Kyō.
Their eloquence will be as boundless
And as unhindered as the wind in the sky.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 27, 2025
The good men or women who keep, read, recite, expound and copy even a phrase of Myōhō Renge Kyō, and offer flowers, incense, necklaces, incense powder, incense applicable to the skin, incense to burn, canopies, banners, streamers, garments and music to a copy of Myōhō Renge Kyō, or just join their hands together respectfully towards Myōhō Renge Kyō, should be respected by all the people of the world. All the people of the world should make the same offerings to them as they do to me. Know this! These good men or women are great Bodhisattvas. They should be considered to have appeared in this world by their vow to expound Myōhō Renge Kyō out of their compassion towards all living beings, although they already attained Anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi [in their previous existence].
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 26, 2025
“Mañjuśrī! A Bodhisattva-mahāsattvas who keeps Myōhō Renge Kyō in the latter days after [my extinction] when the teachings are about to be destroyed, should have great loving-kindness towards laymen and monks, and great compassion towards those who are not Bodhisattvas.”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 25, 2025
My disciples who do not hear Myōhō Renge Kyō or know the practices of Bodhisattvas, after my extinction will make a conception of extinction by the merits they will have accumulated by themselves, and enter into Nirvāṇa as they conceive it. At that time I shall be a Buddha of another name in another world. Those who will enter into Nirvāṇa as they conceive it will be able [to be reborn] in the world I shall live in, seek the wisdom of the Buddha, and hear Myōhō Renge Kyō. They will be able to attain [true] extinction only by the Vehicle of the Buddha in that world because there is no other vehicle except when the Tathāgatas expound the Dharma with expedients.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 24, 2025
“Śāriputra! I caused you to aspire for the enlightenment of the Buddha in your previous existence. You forgot all this, and thought that you had already attained extinction. In order to cause you to remember the Way you practiced under your original vow, I now expound to the Śrāvakas this sūtra of the Great Vehicle called Myōhō Renge Kyō, the Dharma for Bodhisattvas, the Dharma Upheld by the Buddhas.’
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 23, 2025
The good men or women who keep, read, recite expound or copy Myōhō Renge Kyō after my extinction, will be able to obtain twelve hundred merits of the mind. When they hear even a gāthā or a phrase of Myōhō Renge Kyō with their pure minds, they will be able to understand the innumerable meanings of Myōhō Renge Kyō. When they understand the meanings of Myōhō Renge Kyō and expound even a phrase or a gāthā of Myōhō Renge Kyō for a month, four months, or a year, their teachings will be consistent with the meanings of Myōhō Renge Kyō, and not against the reality of all things.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 22, 2025
“Medicine-King! Although many laymen or monks will practice the Way of Bodhisattvas, they will not be able to practice it satisfactorily, know this, unless they see, hear, read, recite, copy or keep Myōhō Renge Kyō or make offerings to Myōhō Renge Kyō. If they hear Myōhō Renge Kyō, they will.”