The foundation of the Lotus Sutra gives us a new concept of religion. It was expounded 2,500 years ago that, “This world can be a pure land or an ideal world.” We tend to complain about this world, seeing it as a corrupted human world. People want to give up the real world, and expect a pure land in another world after death. However, the Lotus Sutra teaches us that the pure land is neither another world, nor a place to go to after death. “Here is the ideal world, the pure land and heaven.”
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