Post by Brad KleeIf anyone sees Cilantro,
[snip your utter delirium]
Just to remind you what Nichiren Daishonin thinks of your many slanders of the Law that you spread in the newsgroup bearing his name:. . . .
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.... As Nichiren states in "The Fourteen Slanders", WND I, p. 756,
.... https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/92#para-4
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.... In your letter you write: "Since I took faith in this sutra
.... [the Lotus], I have continued to recite the ten factors of
.... life and the verse section of the 'Life Span' chapter and
.... chant the daimoku without the slightest neglect. But how
.... great is the difference between the blessings received when
.... a sage chants the daimoku and the blessings received when
.... we chant it?" To reply, one is in no way superior to the
.... other. The gold that a fool possesses is no different from
.... the gold that a wise man possesses; a fire made by a fool
.... is the same as a fire made by a wise man.
....
.... HOWEVER, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IF ONE CHANTS THE DAIMOKU
.... WHILE ACTING AGAINST THE INTENT OF THIS SUTRA.
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.... As Nichiren states in "The Third Doctrine ", WND I, p. 856,
.... https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/107#para-9
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.... There are two kinds of practitioners at the initial stage
.... of rejoicing. Practitioners of keen faculties may keep the
.... precepts, while those of dull faculties are restrained from
.... doing so. Moreover, there are differences among the Former,
.... Middle, and Latter Days of the Law, and differences between
.... the practices of shōju and shakubuku. You should also take
.... into account the Great Teacher Dengyō's remark about a
.... tiger in the marketplace. [Teacher Dengyo's remark "IF IN
.... THE LATTER DAY OF THE LAW THERE SHOULD BE PERSONS WHO KEEP
.... THE PRECEPTS, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING RARE AND STRANGE,
.... LIKE A TIGER IN THE MARKETPLACE. WHO COULD POSSIBLY BELIEVE
.... IT?"]
....
.... As Nichiren states in "On Practicing the Buddha's Teachings",
.... WND I, p. 394,
.... https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/42#para-13
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.... Answer: ANYONE WHO PRACTICES BUDDHISM SHOULD FIRST
.... UNDERSTAND THE TWO TYPES OF PRACTICE--SHOJU AND SHAKUBUKU.
....
.... As Nichiren states in "On Practicing the Buddha's Teachings ",
.... WND I, p. 394,
.... https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/42#para-14
....
.... In this age, the provisional teachings have turned into
.... enemies of the true teaching. When the time is right to
.... propagate the teaching of the one vehicle, the provisional
.... teachings become enemies. When they are a source of
.... confusion, they must be thoroughly refuted from the
.... standpoint of the true teaching. Of the two types of
.... practice, this is shakubuku, the practice of the Lotus
.... Sutra. With good reason T'ient'ai stated, "THE LOTUS SUTRA
.... IS THE TEACHING OF SHAKUBUKU, THE REFUTATION OF THE
.... PROVISIONAL DOCTRINES."
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.... As Nichiren states in "On Practicing the Buddha's Teachings ",
.... WND I, p. 394,
.... https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/42#para-15
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.... The four peaceful practices [in the "Peaceful Practices"
.... chapter] correspond to shoju. TO CARRY THEM OUT IN THIS AGE
.... WOULD BE AS FOOLISH AS SOWING SEEDS IN WINTER AND EXPECTING
.... TO REAP THE HARVEST IN SPRING.
....
.... As Nichiren states in "On Practicing the Buddha's Teachings ",
.... WND I, p. 394,
.... https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/42#para-15
....
.... Now, when the true and the provisional teachings are
.... utterly confused, IT WOULD BE EQUALLY UNNATURAL FOR ONE TO
.... SECLUDE ONESELF IN THE MOUNTAIN FORESTS AND CARRY OUT THE
.... PEACEFUL PRACTICE OF SHOJU WITHOUT REFUTING THE ENEMIES OF
.... THE LOTUS SUTRA. ONE WOULD LOSE THE CHANCE TO PRACTICE THE
.... LOTUS SUTRA.
....
.... As Nichiren states in "The Essentials for Attaining Buddhahood",
.... WND I, p. 747,
.... https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/89#para-7
....
.... To hope to attain Buddhahood without speaking out against
.... slander is as futile as trying to find water in the midst
.... of fire or fire in the midst of water. NO MATTER HOW
.... SINCERELY ONE BELIEVES IN THE LOTUS SUTRA, IF ONE IS GUILTY
.... OF FAILING TO REBUKE SLANDER OF THE LAW, ONE WILL SURELY
.... FALL INTO HELL, JUST AS A SINGLE CRAB LEG WILL RUIN A
.... THOUSAND POTS OF LACQUER. This is the meaning of the
.... passage in the sutra, "Because the poison has penetrated
.... deeply and their minds no longer function as before." [Note
.... 5. Lotus Sutra, chap. 16.]
....
.... As Nichiren states in "Encouragement to a Sick Person",
.... WND I, pp. 77-78,
.... https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/10#para-8
....
.... MOREOVER, EVERY SINGLE PERSON IS GUILTY OF SLANDER OF THE
.... LAW, an offense exceeding even the ten evil acts or the
.... five cardinal sins. Although few people slander the Lotus
.... Sutra with actual words of abuse, there are none who accept
.... it. Some appear to accept the sutra, but their faith in it
.... is not as deep as their faith in the Nembutsu or other
.... teachings. AND EVEN THOSE WITH PROFOUND FAITH DO NOT
.... REPROACH THE ENEMIES OF THE LOTUS SUTRA. HOWEVER GREAT THE
.... GOOD CAUSES ONE MAY MAKE, or even if one reads and copies
.... the entirety of the Lotus Sutra a thousand or ten thousand
.... times, or attains the way of perceiving three thousand
.... realms in a single moment of life, IF ONE FAILS TO DENOUNCE
.... THE ENEMIES OF THE LOTUS SUTRA, IT WILL BE IMPOSSIBLE TO
.... ATTAIN THE WAY.
....
.... As Nichiren states in "Conversation between a Sage
.... and an Unenlightened Man", WND I, p. 108,
.... https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/13#para-65
....
.... "Is not one who fails to heed the warnings of this sutra in
.... effect cutting off the tongues of the Buddhas and deceiving
.... the worthies and sages? This offense is truly fearful.
.... Thus, in the second volume it says, 'IF A PERSON FAILS TO
.... HAVE FAITH BUT INSTEAD SLANDERS THIS SUTRA, IMMEDIATELY HE
.... WILL DESTROY ALL THE SEEDS FOR BECOMING A BUDDHA IN THIS
.... WORLD.' [Note 34. Lotus Sutra, chap. 3.] THE MEANING OF
.... THIS PASSAGE IS THAT, IF ONE TURNS ONE'S BACK ON EVEN ONE
.... VERSE OR ONE PHRASE OF THIS SUTRA, ONE IS GUILTY OF A CRIME
.... EQUAL TO THAT OF KILLING ALL THE BUDDHAS OF THE TEN
.... DIRECTIONS IN THE THREE EXISTENCES OF PAST, PRESENT, AND
.... FUTURE.
....
.... "IF WE USE THE TEACHINGS OF THE SUTRAS AS A MIRROR IN WHICH
.... TO EXAMINE OUR PRESENT WORLD, WE WILL SEE THAT IT IS A
.... DIFFICULT THING TO FIND ONE WHO DOES NOT BETRAY THE LOTUS
.... SUTRA. AND IF WE UNDERSTAND THE TRUE MEANING OF THESE
.... MATTERS, WE CAN SEE THAT EVEN A PERSON OF DISBELIEF CANNOT
.... AVOID BEING REBORN IN THE HELL OF INCESSANT SUFFERING. How
.... much more so is this true, then, for someone like the
.... Honorable Honen, the founder of the Nembutsu school, who
.... urged people to discard the Lotus Sutra in favor of the
.... Nembutsu! Where, may I ask, in all the five thousand or
.... seven thousand volumes of sutras is there any passage that
.... instructs us to discard the Lotus Sutra?
....
.... From "On Curing Karmic Disease", WND p. 634:
.... https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/76#para-11
....
.... "CONTAMINATION AT THE SOURCE OF A RIVER WILL POLLUTE ITS
.... ENTIRE LENGTH."
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Enjoy the grand extension of your sentence in Avichi Hell, David Cole. . . .
-Chas. . . .