Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Daily Wisdom - Buddha, the skilled physician

From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Sunday, January 2, 2011:

The Buddha has already been called a skilled physician, and the Law has been likened to good medicine and all living beings to people suffering from illness. The Buddha took the teachings that he had preached in the course of his lifetime, ground and sifted them, blended them together, and compounded an excellent medicine, the pill of the Mystic Law. Regardless of whether one understands it or not, so long as one takes the pill, can one fail to be cured of the illness of delusion?

Conversation between a Sage and an Unenlightened Man
Recipient unknown; written in 1265

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