Sunday, December 18, 2011

Daily Wisdom - How, then, are you to go about nurturing faith in the Lotus Sutra?

From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Wednesday, January 12, 2011:

How, then, are you to go about nurturing faith in the Lotus Sutra? For if you try to practice the teachings of the sutra without faith, it would be like trying to enter a jeweled mountain without hands [to pick up its treasures], or like trying to make a thousand-mile journey without feet. The answer is simply to examine the proof that is close at hand, and thus take hold of faith that is far off.

Letter to Horen
Written to Soya Kyoshin in April 1275

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