There is no distinction between you and the Dharma. Your practice doesn’t make you into someone else. It doesn’t change who you are. What does happen is that the good or beneficial characteristics of all the Ten Worlds are strengthened so that they rise above the potential negative. In other words, you reveal the greatness that lies within you, the greatness of the Bodhisattva from beneath the ground who has been taught by the Eternal Buddha since the infinite past. You become the living manifestation of the truth of the Lotus Sutra. Now the book that was sitting on the coffee table is not merely a manuscript recorded thousands of years ago, but a living document of today.

The fact that you are not transported to some new magical perfect place with no troubles is a blessing. If that were the case, you would not be in this Sahā world. You would not be able to fulfill the vows of the Bodhisattvas from beneath the ground. And no one would be able to relate to you. You, with all your foibles and imagined shortcomings, are the perfect person for the role you are to play in spreading the Dharma. This, too, is the Middle Way. You are not perfect. You are just who you need to be. Awakening the Myoho Renge Kyo within your life allows all the truth of the Dharma to manifest in your life, allowing you to reveal it to others through your very real experiences.

And in truth, the realm of self, the realm of Buddhas, and the realm of living beings are all one. There is no distinction in terms of the True Dharma of the Myoho Renge Ryo. There is no you to be cast off. There is no Buddha to be taken on. There is only the one, fully awakened through your Namu, at one with Myoho Renge Kyo.