Thursday, November 25, 2010

Mount Sumeru of perfect enlightenment, an ocean of great nirvana

Little streams come together to form the great ocean, and tiny particles of dust accumulate to form Mount Sumeru. When I, Nichiren, first took faith in the Lotus Sutra, I was like a single drop of water or a single particle of dust in all the country of Japan. But later, when two people, three people, ten people, and eventually a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, and a million people come to recite the Lotus Sutra and transmit it to others, then they will form a Mount Sumeru of perfect enlightenment, an ocean of great nirvana. 29/4

The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
The Selection of the Time
Written to Yui in 1275

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