Tag: Reciting

• Beyond Mindfulness: Four Surprising Truths About Real Transformation from the Lotus Sutra

  

  Introduction: The Ancient Text with Modern Answers In our modern quest for wisdom, the path to self-improvement often feels like a deeply personal, inward-facing journey. We focus on optimizing our minds, cultivating inner peace, and achieving individual goals. We are told to “put on our own oxygen mask first” before we can possibly help anyone…

  William Altig

  September 30, 2025

  Chapter 28, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

  Acting According to It, Altruism, Bodhisattva Ideal, Causal Interdependence, Chapter 28, Copying, Defiled World in the Later Five Hundred Years, Dharanis, Ekayāna, Keeping the Sūtra, Lotus Sūtra, Mahāyāna Buddhism, Memorizing, Merit Transfer, Miaolo Zhanran, Nichiren, Non-Duality, One Character One Buddha, One Vehicle, Pariṇāmanā, Reading, Reciting, Resolve to Save All Living Beings, Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra, Samadhis, Samantabhadra, Self-Enlightenment, Shakyō, Shikidoku, Universal-Sage Bodhisattva

• The Lotus Sutra’s Enduring Call in the Latter Day of the Law

  

  This briefing document summarizes the core themes and most important concepts presented in the provided sources, focusing on the Lotus Sutra’s significance, particularly through Nichiren’s interpretation, and its role in personal and societal transformation. 1. The Lotus Sutra: A Foundation for Universal Enlightenment The Lotus Sutra, or Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra, is a foundational text in…

  William Altig

  July 29, 2025

  Nichiren

  Bodily Reading, Buddha-nature, Buddhism, Chapter 16 Lotus Sutra, Chapter 28 Lotus Sutra, compassionate action, Copying), daimoku, Dōgen Zenji, Ekayāna, Enlightenment, Eternal Buddha, Five Practices of Lotus Sutra (Seeking, Gohonzon, human revolution, Ichinen Sanzen, Kamakura period, Keeping, Latter Day of the Law, Lotus Sutra, Mappō, Meditation, Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō, Nichiren Buddhism, One Vehicle, Philosophy, Propagation., Pure Land (in this world), Pure Land Buddhism, Reading, Reciting, Religion, Samantabhadra, Skillful Means, Societal Transformation, Spirituality, Tendai, Three Great Secret Laws, Three Thousand Realms in a Single Thought-Moment, Tiantai, Transformation, Universal-Sage Bodhisattva, upāya, vow of protection, Zen Buddhism