There will be many dreadful things
In the evil world of the kalpa of defilements.
Devils will enter the bodies [of those bhikṣus]
And cause them to abuse and insult us.We will wear the armor of endurance
Because we respect and believe you.
We will endure all these difficulties
In order to expound Myōhō Renge Kyō.We will not spare even our lives.
We treasure only unsurpassed enlightenment.
We will protect and keep Myōhō Renge Kyō in the future
If you transmit Myōhō Renge Kyō to us.
Category Archives: Promises
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Aug. 6, 2025
Myōhō Renge Kyō
Can be heard only once
In hundreds of millions of billions of kalpas,
That is, in an inconceivable number of kalpas.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Aug. 5, 2025
Just as the Great Brahman Heavenly-King is the father of all living beings, Myōhō Renge Kyō is the father of all the sages and saints, of the Śrāvakas who have something more to learn, of the Śrāvakas who have nothing more to learn, and of those who aspire for Bodhisattvahood.
The Buddhist Monk Huijin
Note: This is another in the monthly excerpts from “Tales of the Lotus Sutra.”
Buddhism in Practice, p443The Buddhist monk Huijin had the secular surname of Qian, but no details are known of his background. He left home when he was a young boy and set up a fixed regimen of practice for himself at Lu grotto on Mount Kuang. No matter where he wandered or settled down, he kept up a constant recitation of the Lotus. This practice he maintained both day and night, never letting up except to take his meals or lie down to rest.
For reciting the sūtra he required a space of several paces in circumference. He would first purify [the ground] by sweeping and sprinkling, gather whatever flowers were in season at the time, and do his best to decorate [the sanctuary] resplendently. In the center, which was some five or six feet in width, he hung banners and offered incense [to the sūtra]. In a spot set apart [from the altar itself] he placed a single chair [for recitation]. After putting on a new and clean robe and venerating the buddhas of the ten directions, he would join his palms [in adoration] and assume the formal posture [for seated meditation]. Only then would he begin to recite [the sūtra].
One day, after he had completed some ten thousand recitations of the sutra, everything around him suddenly became hazy, like a cloud of mist. In this cloud he saw the three transformations [of the Lotus assembly], together with [the stūpa of Prabhūtaratna], the jeweled thrones [for the manifestation bodies of Śākyamuni Buddha], and their jeweled trees extending throughout the eight directions. Ever so faintly, the buddhas and bodhisattvas [of the assembly] appeared before his eyes. When he reached fifteen thousand recitations, he saw them all with perfect clarity. Where and how he ended his days is not known.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Aug. 4, 2025
Whoever for as long as a kalpa
Joins his hands together towards me
And praises me with innumerable gāthās
In order to attain the enlightenment of the Buddha,
Will obtain innumerable merits
Because he praises me.
Whoever praises the keeper of Myōhō Renge Kyō
Will obtain even more merits.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Aug. 3, 2025
Those who do not study Myōhō Renge Kyō
Cannot understand Myōhō Renge Kyō.
You have already realized
The fact that the Buddhas, the World-Teachers, employ expedients,
According to the capacities of all living beings.
Know that, when you remove your doubts,
And when you have great joy,
You will become Buddhas!
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Aug. 2, 2025
When they expound Myōhō Renge Kyō
In good order according to the Dharma
For a month, four month or a year,
They will be able to understand at once
The thoughts of gods, dragons, men, yakṣas, demigods,
And of all the other living beings
Inside and outside this world
Composed of the six regions
Because they keep
Myōhō Renge Kyō.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for Aug. 1, 2025
The number of the Buddhas who passed away
During the past innumerable kalpas was
Hundreds of thousands of billions,
Uncountable.
All those World-Honored Ones expounded
The truth of the reality of all things
With various stories of previous lives, parables and similes,
That is to say, with innumerable expedients.
All those World-Honored Ones expounded
The teaching of Myōhō Renge Kyō,
And led innumerable living beings [with expedients]
Into the Way to Buddhahood.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for July 31, 2025
If you wish to give up all indolence,
Hear Myōhō Renge Kyō!
It is difficult to hear Myōhō Renge Kyō.
Few receive Myōhō Renge Kyō by faith.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for July 30, 2025
“Good men or women in the future who hear this chapter of Devadatta of Myōhō Renge Kyō with faithful respect caused by their pure minds, and have no doubts [about this chapter], will not fall into hell or the region of hungry spirits or the region of animals. They will be reborn before the Buddhas of the worlds of the ten quarters. They will always hear Myōhō Renge Kyō at the places of their rebirth. Even when they are reborn among men or gods, they will be given wonderful pleasures. When they are reborn before the Buddhas, they will appear in lotus-flowers.”