Kaikyoge*
The most profound and wonderful teaching is presented in this sutra. This sūtra is difficult to meet even once in thousands and millions of aeons.
Now I have been able to see, hear, receive and keep this sūtra. May I understand the most excellent teaching of the Tathagata! The most excellent teaching of the Great Vehicle is very difficult to understand.
I shall be able to approach enlightenment when I see, hear, or touch this sūtra.
Expounded is the Buddha’s truth.
Expounding is the Buddha’s essence.
The letters composing this sutra are the Buddha’s manifestation.
Just as perfume is caught by something put nearby, so shall I be richly benefited by this sūtra, even when I am not aware of being so benefited, because infinite merits are accumulated in this sūtra.
I can expiate my past transgressions, do good deeds, and attain Buddhahood by the merits of this sutra. It does not matter whether I am wise, or whether I believe the sutra.
This sūtra is the most wonderful and most excellent taught by the Buddhas of the past, present, and future.
May I meet and receive it,
Birth after birth,
World after world!
*This is a personalized version (substituting “I” for “we”) of the verses recited prior to Hoben Pon and Ji-Ga Ge during traditional Nichiren Shu services.