Tag: Shō Hokke Daimoku-shō
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An Ancient Monk’s Warning: Why Rejecting Old Wisdom Could Unravel Society
If there’s one piece of modern spiritual advice, it’s this: find your own truth. Question authority, discard the old books, and listen to the voice within. This approach feels empowering and authentic, a way to cast off rigid dogma and connect with something real and immediate. But what if this rejection of structured wisdom, even…
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Three Revolutionary Ideas from a 13th-Century Buddhist Monk About Human Potential
Introduction: The Challenge of Unlocking Our Full Potential In our daily lives, we constantly fall into the habit of placing limiting labels on people, including ourselves. We categorize others as “good” or “bad,” “smart” or “stupid,” or decide that certain individuals are simply lost causes, incapable of meaningful change. This tendency to see human potential…
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The Needle on Sumeru’s Peak: An Analysis of Rarity and Merit in Nichiren Daishonin’s Shō Hokke Daimoku-shō
I. Introduction: The Rarity of Encountering the Mystic Law A. Presentation of the Core Passage Within the corpus of writings attributed to the 13th-century Japanese Buddhist reformer Nichiren Daishonin, a particularly striking passage appears in his Treatise on Chanting the Great Title of the Lotus Sūtra (Shō Hokke Daimoku-shō). It presents a vivid, almost fantastical…
Mr. Altig’s Overview of the Wonderful Dharma of the Lotus Sutra 