Sunday, November 28, 2010

Benefits of offerings

If a spark as small as a bean is set to a single blade of grass in a spring field of a thousand square ri thick with grass, it becomes in an instant an immeasurable, boundless blaze. Such is also the case with this robe [you have offered]. Though only one robe, it has been offered to the Buddhas of all the characters of the Lotus Sutra. Be firmly convinced that the benefits from this will extend to your parents, your grandparents, nay, even to countless living beings, not to mention your own husband, whom you hold most dear. 25/5

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
The Offering of an Unlined Robe
Written to the lady of Sajiki on May 25, 1275

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