Absolute victory -- attainment of buddhahood and kosenrufu
3 key factors to achieving absolute victory
1. A good teacher -- a mentor to guide us
2. A good believer --- a good practitioner and disciple
3. A good teaching --- the gohonzon and nmhrgk
2 aspects of being a good believer
1. we must be good disciple, with shared vow
2. "to practice is easy, to continue is difficult"-- why? coz of fundamental darkness in our lives
Letter from Misawa:
3 key factors to achieving absolute victory
1. A good teacher -- a mentor to guide us
2. A good believer --- a good practitioner and disciple
3. A good teaching --- the gohonzon and nmhrgk
2 aspects of being a good believer
1. we must be good disciple, with shared vow
2. "to practice is easy, to continue is difficult"-- why? coz of fundamental darkness in our lives
Letter from Misawa:
Let us leave the first six for now. The seventh is caused by the devil king of the sixth heaven. When an ordinary person of the latter age is ready to attain Buddhahood, having realized the essence of all the sacred teachings of the Buddha's lifetime and understood the heart of the important teaching set forth in Great Concentration and Insight, this devil is greatly surprised. He says to himself, "This is most vexing. If I allow this person to remain in my domain, he not only will free himself from the sufferings of birth and death, but will lead others to enlightenment as well. Moreover, he will take over my realm and change it into a pure land. What shall I do?" The devil king then summons all his underlings from the threefold world of desire, form, and formlessness and tells them: "Each of you now go and harass that votary, according to your respective skills. If you should fail to make him abandon his Buddhist practice, then possess the minds of his disciples, lay supporters, and the people of his land and thus try to persuade or threaten him. p.895If these attempts are also unsuccessful, I myself will go down and possess the mind and body of his sovereign to persecute that votary. Together, how can we fail to prevent him from attaining Buddhahood?"
