“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.’
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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.”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 21, 2025
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 20, 2025
It is not difficult
To shoulder a load of hay
And stay unburned in the fire
At the end of the kalpa [of destruction].It is difficult
To keep Myōhō Renge Kyō
And expound it to even one person
After my extinction.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 19, 2025
[T]he rākṣasas said to the Buddha:
“World-Honored One! We also will protect the person who keeps, reads and recites Myōhō Renge Kyō, and acts according to Myōhō Renge Kyō so that he may be peaceful, that he may have no trouble, and that poison taken by him may be neutralized.”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 18, 2025
“Universal-Sage! Anyone who keeps, reads and recites Myōhō Renge Kyō, memorizes Myōhō Renge Kyō correctly, studies Myōhō Renge Kyō, practices Myōhō Renge Kyō, and copies Myōhō Renge Kyō, should be considered to see me, and hear Myōhō Renge Kyō from my mouth. He should be considered to be making offerings to me. He should be considered to be praised by me with the word ‘Excellent!’ He should be considered to be caressed by me on the head. He should be considered to be covered with my robe.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 17, 2025
When [Never-Despising Bodhisattva] was about to pass away, he heard [from a voice] in the sky the twenty thousand billion gāthās of Myōhō Renge Kyō, which had been expounded by the Powerful-Voice-King Buddha. Having kept all these gāthās, he was able to have his eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind purified as previously stated. Having his six sense-organs purified, he was able to prolong his life for two hundred billion nayuta more years. He expounded Myōhō Renge Kyō to many people [in his prolonged life]. The arrogant bhikṣus, bhikṣunīs, upāsakās and upāsikās, that is, the four kinds of devotees who had abused him and caused him to be called Never-Despising, saw that he had obtained great supernatural powers, the power of eloquence, and the great power of good tranquility. Having seen all this, and having heard the Dharma from him, they took faith in him, and followed him.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 16, 2025
Expound Myōhō Renge Kyō to the Buddha’s sons
Who keep the precepts
As cleanly and as purely
As they keep gems,
And who seek
The sūtra of the Great Vehicle!
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Jan. 15, 2025
“Bhikṣus! I will collect Bodhisattvas and Śrāvakas and expound Myōhō Renge Kyō to them when I realize that the time of my Nirvāṇa is drawing near, that the living beings have become pure in heart, that they can understand the truth of the Void by firm faith, and that they have already entered deep into dhyāna-concentration. No one in the world can attain [true] extinction by the two vehicles. [True] extinction can be attained only by Myōhō Renge Kyō.