⭐️⭐️Guidance on how you can strongly deepen your Faith and bring forth many Immeasurable Benefits⭐️⭐️
You should chant as if you are with your boyfriend or girlfriend, because you really seek that person, you really want to be with them. When you chant with that kind of emotion, that attitude, you get a much stronger effect. That is what is meant by the phrase 'yearning to see the Buddha'. When you chant to the Gohonzon, do it so you'll be able to bring forth that profound state of life from within you. Let each daimoku you are chanting circulate throughout your entire body, even through your bones and bone marrow.
You should chant in the same manner in which you wash your face, in other words wash it as clean as possible. When you chant Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo, it is just like cleansing yourself, cleansing every single part of your body.
When you chant, it's just like a fire engine trying to extinguish whatever problems you are suffering or encountering. Faith is like water, right? When you are really chanting and happy many fire engines will come, but when you are just chanting along, not really happy, only one will show up.
In the Gosho it states that we are children of the Buddha. It states that our bodies are equivalent to Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo. Our head is Myo, throat ho, chest Ren, stomach ge, hands and feet Kyo. The most essential thing is to understand that our bodies are actually the environment of Myoho-Renge-Kyo, and contain its power. So by circulating Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo throughout your body, you will be able to overcome any problem you have within your body.
You should chant to the Gohonzon to be able to accumulate good fortune and overcome problems for the sake of kosen-rufu. You should chant that you become a very fortunate person because you would like to dedicate yourself to the cause of kosen-rufu. When you do that, you will see that the Gohonzon answers your prayers.
If you just try to force yourself to chant when you don't really feel like chanting, you are the loser. You lose the many benfits you can receive when you chant with joy. If you chant as though the Gohonzon were God, and you ask it for something, you will not get as much benefit as you can. You have to remember that you are actually the Gohonzon. The Gohonzon's wisdom is immense, boundless, and immeasurable but through our practice, we are able to receive the immense benefit which is embodied in the Gohonzon.
People throughout the world began to use electricity through the invention of the light bulb. In the same way, through the introduction of the law of Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo on this earth, we are trying to propagate this law throughout the world in order to achieve and realize world peace while avoiding the use of nuclear and biological weapons. This is our mission. This is the mission that every member has throughout the world, to try to propagate Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism so that we can see, in every nation, the end of war.
The first step is to bring forth Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo in our lives by chanting and circulating Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo in our bodies, so that it cleanses us right down to our blood. By doing so, we can develop strong faith- in other words, make nuclear explosions of faith within us. It is not enough to have small explosions happening in a large number of people. What is important is to have large explosions happening in even a handful of people. We need a corps of people with unshakeable faith. I hope you strongly deepen your faith and receive as many benefits as possible and advance toward kosen-rufu in your countries.
Excerpts - Paraphrased from a guidance given by Soka Gakkai Vice-President Takehisa Tsuji.
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