Saturday, August 4, 2018

Lotus sutra --- the secret (never before known) teaching.

secret as in " never- before known", and not mysterious or deliberately kept unknown.

"The Lotus Sutra reveals to all people the "secret" teaching "understood and shared [only] between Buddhas" that has never been known before. But a genuine secret teaching is not something kept to oneself, hidden from others and used to create an aura of mystery or to appropriate authority. When the proper time arrives, a genuine secret teaching should be expounded passionately and spread to cure all humankind's ills, its brilliant force thus proven. That is the purpose of this secret teaching, of this "Law that is profound and never known before."" (from "The Heart of the Lotus Sutra" by Daisaku Ikeda)

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