It is not difficult
To expound the Dharma
To many thousands of billions of living beings
As many as there are sands
In the River Ganges
So that they may be able
To obtain the benefits:
Arhatship and the six supernatural powers.It is difficult
To keep
Myōhō Renge Kyō
After my extinction.
Category Archives: Promises
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 23, 2025
“World-Honored One! I will protect Myōhō Renge Kyō with my supernatural powers so that Myōhō Renge Kyō may be propagated and not be destroyed in the Jambudvipa after your extinction.”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 22, 2025
Any son of mine who expounds Myōhō Renge Kyō
Should be gentle, patient and compassionate
Towards all living beings.
He should not be lazy.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 21, 2025
“The Buddha assented to the appeal of the śramaṇeras, but it was twenty thousand kalpas afterwards that he expounded to the four kinds of devotees the sūtra of the Great Vehicle called Myōhō Renge Kyō, the Dharma for Bodhisattvas, the Dharma Upheld by the Buddhas.’
“When the Buddha completed the expounding of Myōhō Renge Kyō, the sixteen śramaṇeras kept, recited and understood Myōhō Renge Kyō in order to attain Anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 20, 2025
“Great-Power-Obtainer! What do you think of this? The Never-Despising Bodhisattva at that time was no one but myself. If I had not kept, read or recited Myōhō Renge Kyō or expounded Myōhō Renge Kyō to others in my previous existence, I should not have been able to attain Anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi so quickly. Because I kept, read and recited Myōhō Renge Kyō, and expounded Myōhō Renge Kyō to others under those past Buddhas, I attained Anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi quickly.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 19, 2025
We did not know that we were your sons. Now we know that you do not grudge your wisdom to anyone. Although we were your sons then as we are now, we wished to hear only the teachings of the Lesser Vehicle. If we had aspired for the teaching of the Great Vehicle, you would have already expounded it to us. Now you expound only the One Vehicle in Myōhō Renge Kyō.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 18, 2025
All living beings will be able to fulfill their wishes by Myōhō Renge Kyō just as a man who reaches a pond of fresh water when he is thirsty, just as a man who gets fire when he suffers from cold, just as a man who is given a garment when he is naked, just as a party of merchants who find a leader just as a child who meets its mother, just as a man who gets a ship when he wants to cross [a river], just as a patient who finds a physician, just as a man who is given a light in the darkness, just as a poor man who gets a treasure, just as the people of a nation who see a new king enthroned, just as a trader who reaches the seacoast.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 17, 2025
“Medicine-King! An evil man who speaks ill of me in my presence with evil intent for as long as a kalpa is not as sinful as the person who reproaches laymen or monks with even a single word of abuse for their reading and reciting Myōhō Renge Kyō.”
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 16, 2025
“Those who keep Myōhō Renge Kyō also will be able to recognize the gods [and things] in heaven by smell while they are staying [in the world of men]. They will be able to recognize the scents of the pārijātaka-trees, kovidāra-trees, mandārava-flowers, mahā-mandārava-flowers, mañjūṣaka-flowers, mahā-mañjūṣaka-flowers [in heaven]; the powdered incense of candana and aloes, the scents of other flowers, and the mixture of these scents in heaven without fail. They will be able to recognize the gods by smell. They will be able to recognize from afar the scent that Śakra-Devānām-Indra gives forth when he satisfies his five desires and enjoys himself in his excellent palace, or when he expounds the Dharma to the Trāyastriṃs̒a Gods at the wonderful hall of the Dharma, or when he plays in the gardens.
Myōhō Renge Kyō Promise for March 15, 2025
My body is pure and indestructible.
I will appear in any of many thousands of billions of worlds
During many hundreds of millions of kalpas,
And expound Myōhō Renge Kyō to the living beings.