Anyone who keeps, reads and recites Myōhō Renge Kyō [after your extinction], will be able to see me with such joy that he will make more efforts. Because he sees me, he will be able to obtain samadhis and a set of dhārāṇis. The set of dhārāṇis will be the dhārāṇis by which he can memorize repetitions of teachings, the dhārāṇis by which he can memorize hundreds of thousands of billions of repetitions of teachings, and the dhārāṇis by which he can understand the expediency of the voice of the Dharma.
Category Archives: Promises
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for April 9, 2025
A Bodhisattva will be peaceful,
And free from timidity
If he stays in a quiet room
For some time,
Recollects the Dharma correctly,
Understands the Dharma
According to the meanings of it,
And then emerges
From his dhyāna-concentration,
And leads kings, princes,
Common people and brahmanas
By expounding Myōhō Renge Kyō to them.Mañjuśrī, all this is the first set of things
That the Bodhisattva should do
Before he expounds Myōhō Renge Kyō
In the world after [my extinction].
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for April 8, 2025
“Ajita! Anyone who goes to a monastery in order to hear Myōhō Renge Kyō and hears Myōhō Renge Kyō even for a moment while he is sitting or standing, in his next life will be able to go up to the palace of heaven, riding in a beautiful and wonderful elephant-cart or horse-cart or in a palanquin of wonderful treasure by his merits.
The Singing Monk
Note: This is another in the monthly excerpts from “Tales of the Lotus Sutra.”
Buddhism in Practice, p440The Buddhist monk Sengding. Nothing is known of his background, but he lived at Chanjing Monastery in Jiangyang and recited the Lotus Sūtra [as his regular practice]. He had a particular love of popular song, which he was at an utter loss to restrain. As a result, he was given to the habit of dissipating himself in the dusty and vulgar world [of Jiangyang nightlife] . However, whenever he did so, [his devotion was such that] divine youths would regularly manifest (gan) and come to his assistance.
Sometimes when he had passed out blind drunk, his dharma robe cast off [in a heap] from his body, [he would awaken to find that the robe had] spontaneously pleated and folded itself and that covers had been drawn over him, properly concealing his body. If his robe had become soiled with mud when he took it off, in the twinkle of an eye it was washed clean. As he picked it up to put it on, he would find it to be impregnated with a rare and pure fragrance that lingered for a long time [without fading]. On other occasions, the water [in the vessels for offering] automatically replenished itself. Or the floor [of his chamber] always appeared cleanly swept.
One time while Ding was drooling away in a drunken stupor, he awoke suddenly to find divine deva youths standing before him. His whole body was damp with saliva. He felt immediately humbled, and from then on he regarded observance of the precepts with the highest esteem. No one knows where or how he ended his days.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for April 7, 2025
If you wish to dwell in the enlightenment of the Buddha,
And to obtain the self-originating wisdom,
Make offerings strenuously to the keeper
Of Myōhō Renge Kyō!
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for April 6, 2025
It is not difficult
To expound all the other sūtras
As many as there are sands
In the River Ganges.It is not difficult
To grasp Mt. Sumeru
And hurl it to a distance
Of countless Buddha-worlds.It is not difficult to move [a world]
[Composed of] one thousand million Sumeru-worlds
With the tip of a toe
And hurl it to another world.It is not difficult
To stand in the Highest Heaven
And expound innumerable other sūtras
To all living beings.It is difficult
To expound Myōhō Renge Kyō
In the evil world
After my extinction.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for April 5, 2025
Anyone who keeps
Myōhō Renge Kyō
Will be able to know by smell
Whether the gods are walking, sitting, playing or performing wonders.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for April 4, 2025
Any Śrāvaka or Bodhisattva
Who hears even a gāthā
Of Myōhō Renge Kyō which I am to expound
Will undoubtedly become a Buddha.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for April 3, 2025
“[T]he good men or women who do not speak ill of Myōhō Renge Kyō but rejoice at hearing Myōhō Renge Kyō after my extinction, should be considered, know this, to have already understood my longevity by firm faith. It is needless to say this of those who [not only rejoice at hearing Myōhō Renge Kyō but also] read, recite and keep Myōhō Renge Kyō. They also should be considered to be carrying me on their heads. Ajita! They need not build a stupa or a monastery in my honor, or make the four kinds of offerings’ to the Saṃgha because those who keep, read and recite Myōhō Renge Kyō should be considered to have already built a stupa or a monastery or made offerings to the Saṃgha.”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for April 2, 2025
Thereupon World-Holding Heavenly-King, accompanied by thousands of billions of nayutas of gandharvas who were surrounding him respectfully, came to the Buddha, joined his hands together, and said to him, “World-Honored One! I also will protect the keeper of Myōhō Renge Kyō with dhārānis, with divine spells.”