"Shakyamuni Buddha....the Lotus Sutra...and we ordinary beings are in no way different or separate from one another." (N. Daishonin) Agree?
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Sounds reasonable to me.
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As many Buddhists would say: "Not two!" I quite agree.
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Yes I do.
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yes, our lives are equally worthy and we all have the the same potential to be wonderful.
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No, i think there are truly evil people out there, what about them, how are they the same? I hope they are separate from me! And i also beleive we are difeerent in ways which means that when combined we are greater;0)
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There is no separation, no difference.
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We are all truly connected and not separate.
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Yes, I agree that we're not separate, but we're all different ..
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Not all of us are ordinary though are we - there are some very un-ordinary people out there. In zen they teach something like 'all being is buddha nature' - so the buddha's enlightenment is you and me and all of existance - I guess the trouble is we are so busy caught up in our little affairs and ideas about sameness and differentness that we just don't see it. I think it comes down to faith in the end. The evil in the world is like a big thick black cloud covering the sun - the sun is still there, but sometimes it takes a lot of faith to see it! It's a good question try sitting zazen with it if you get a chance.
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recycled Bodhisattva's are different in that they are here by choice, most of the rest of us are here to get our Karma straight. I keep Gohonzon and have for over 30 years. but this is one strange brand of Buddhism, in that we tend to wind ourselves ever more deeply into the world as opposed to divorcing ourselves from it. However DiMoku gives us a lever on reality that Gautomah didn't envision, and over the last 600 years things have gotten to a point where we CAN see a world that need not be all sadness and pain. There may well be people alive today that need not die, science might beat aging, and we may see the transference of personality into machine storage.Nom myo ho ring gay kyo.
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