When We Have the Lotus Sutra Truly at the Core of our Lives

When we can be at ease with many others regardless of their belief and practice, when we can respect others even if they do not choose to follow the Lotus Sutra, we create the kind of life that others want to be around. By their association with us they will in turn be praising the Buddha within us that is a result of our practice of the sutra. Because of this praise they offer the Lotus Sutra, even if indirectly, they create a great cause of eventually practicing the Lotus Sutra themselves in some future lifetime. When we have the Lotus Sutra truly at the core of our lives we live the kind of life that others wish to know about and be around. Our positive influence on those lives causes other great benefit.

Lecture on the Lotus Sutra