Nichiren Shu would have another paradigm...anyone?
can we discuss both or a third please.
I recall when if first left Shoshu and found Zasep Tulku Rinpoche, my Root Guru I was trying to explain to him what we did.
He said well it doesn't really matter for you were chanting to a Buddha...and i said no due to the whole anti Lord Sakyamuni Buddha thing..
He just looked at me weird and said :
He explained all these Buddhist mantras are names of Buddhas...Om Tare Tuttare Ture Svaha is Buddha Goddess Tara
Om Mani Padme Hum is Buddha Avalokiteshvara and so on...
So is MyoHo RenGe Kyo considered a Buddha ...If anyone knows the Nichiren Shu explanation or even TenDai , please let me know.
Weird thing is I never really thought of MyoHo RenGe Kyo being a Buddha till tonight..is it the Eternal Buddha...yes it is...wow...
there ya go folks watching Minobu's brain at play...
the problem with Primordial Buddha is a what came first the chicken or the egg...Like to become a Buddha one has to be a common mortal who eventually attained Buddhahood...
when the whole Stephen Hawkings thing about time being so long and infinite that it eventually bends upon itself and creates a circle...thus once again you are reading this...So I explained this to Rev Nagasaka a Nichiren ShoShu priest and he said it's similar in Buddhism...his words were exactly and i quote..."In Buddhism there is no beginning and no end . But in the beginning of the beginning"...and went silent except for a look and a slight smile...
does this sound coherent to anyone ...
snippets from the gakki library
http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/wnd-1/Content/47
All beings and their environments in any of the Ten Worlds are themselves entities of Myoho-renge-kyo.
Question: If so, then is it possible to say that all living beings, such as ourselves, are entities of the Mystic Law in its entirety?
Answer: Of course. The sutra says, “This reality [the true aspect of all phenomena] consists of the appearance, nature . . . and their consistency from beginning to end.”1
The Great Teacher Miao-lo comments on this as follows: “The true aspect invariably manifests in all phenomena, and all phenomena invariably manifest in the ten factors. The ten factors invariably manifest in the Ten Worlds, and the Ten Worlds invariably manifest in life and its environment.”2
The mystic principle that is the essential nature of phenomena possesses two aspects, the defiled aspect and the pure aspect. If the defiled aspect is operative, this is called delusion. If the pure aspect is operative, this is called enlightenment. Enlightenment constitutes the realm of Buddhahood. Delusion constitutes the realms of ordinary mortals.
ok so how does en entity produce the above quotes?
like an entity is :
en·ti·ty
/ˈen(t)ədē/
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noun
a thing with distinct and independent existence.
is it to do with the actual translation from Jappanese into english that the word entity is not the correct translation ?
ok i'll leave it there..