RKUK (Rissho Kosei-kai of the UK)

🗣️The Buddha says with conviction and at length that if we show reverence for the buddha-nature in each other and strive to walk the path of the bodhisattva, the entire world will be filled with the light of the newly discovered and polished buddha-nature.—Nikkyo Niwano
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How can anyone and everyone easily act upon this truth in their daily lives? By fixing their eyes upon the buddha-nature within themselves and looking reverently upon the buddha-nature within others.—Nikkyo Niwano
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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🗣️If we boil down the philosophical principles of the teachings of the Buddha to their absolute essence, what is left? We are left with the truth that ‘all living beings are endowed with buddha-nature’.
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🗣️One only has to revere other human beings. One only has to revere buddha-nature.—Nikkyo Niwano
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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🗣️It is this: ‘Revering the buddha-nature of people is the foundation of Buddhist practice and should be given precedence over all else’.—Nikkyo Niwano
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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🗣️To discover and respect others' buddha-nature is indeed the primary object of the bodhisattva practice, and living Buddhism consists of this.—Nikkyo Niwano
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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This is why we wonder how we can achieve the same state of mind as the Buddha and seek to know what to do in order to attain buddhahood.—Nikkyo Niwano
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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🗣️The Buddha appeared in the world to help all people attain buddhahood, and our faith in Buddhism occurs so that we can accept the wish of the Buddha without cynicism and contribute to each and every person's growth toward becoming a buddha.
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🗣️The reason we place our hands together in a prayerful attitude when we exchange ordinary greetings such as ‘Good morning’ or expressions of gratitude such as ‘Thanks for your trouble’ is to more perfectly refine and bring out the buddha-nature that each of us has inside.—Nikkyo Niwano
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When we thoroughly grasp this in a tangible way, we will, like the Bodhisattva Never Despise described in chapter 20 of the Lotus Sutra, become unable to refrain from venerating every person we meet and will feel reverence for the person from the heart.—Nikkyo Niwano
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🗣️Shakyamuni said very clearly that all living things are endowed with buddha-nature.
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🗣️In order to make the world brighter and more peaceful, one has to awaken to the fact that the realisation of the buddha-nature within oneself and others is the true starting point and the most basic path.—Nikkyo Niwano
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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📖“For the sake of those good sons and good daughters in ages to come who do believe in the wisdom of the Tathagata, you should elucidate this Dharma Flower Sutra so that they will hear it and know it and thereby attain the Buddha wisdom.—The Lotus Sutra
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A much more important working of his [liberation,] however, is to transmit the Buddha's teachings as his messenger and to provide us with a good example of religious life.—Nikkyo Niwano
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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🗣️How does a bodhisattva manifest his [liberation] to living beings? This is, of course, a [liberation] revealed by him to [liberate] them from their illusions and suffering on specific occasions.
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You should receive, embrace, read, recite, and widely proclaim this teaching so that all living beings everywhere will hear it and know it.—The Lotus Sutra
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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📖“For countless hundreds of thousands of millions of myriads of kalpas, I have practiced this rare teaching of Supreme Perfect Awakening, and now I am entrusting it to you.
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In the Buddhist tradition, the Autumn Equinox (Higan) is a season to remember ancestors and loved ones with gratitude, and to reflect deeply on our own way of living.
At RKUK, we strive to embody this spirit in our daily practices and shared community life.

📖“Just as the light of the sun and the moon
Can chase all darkness away,
So these people, practicing in this world,
Can bring living beings out of darkness
And cause countless bodhisattvas
To at last abide in the One Vehicle.—The Lotus Sutra
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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🗣️The true value of our existence as children of the Buddha comes forth when compassion is awakened in our hearts and is realised in compassionate acts.—Nikkyo Niwano
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🗣️The most important thing for such bodhisattvas is the spirit of loving and benefiting others, and the practical action that springs from that spirit. This action is called ‘donation’.—Nikkyo Niwano
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🗣️All of us are walking along the Buddha’s path. We are living in place of the Buddha. We are the Buddha’s hands and feet.—Nikkyo Niwano
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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🗣️All of us are walking along the Buddha’s path. We are living in place of the Buddha. We are the Buddha’s hands and feet.—Nikkyo Niwano
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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📖“In the presence of all of those former buddhas, I received, embraced, read, and recited this sutra and taught it for the benefit of other people. Therefore, I quickly attained Supreme Perfect Awakening.—The Lotus Sutra
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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True [liberation] lies in our disclosing of and respect for the buddha-nature innate in others.—Nikkyo Niwano
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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🗣️The bodhisattva practice originates with revering others, that is, with our recognising the buddha-nature of all people. If we try to [liberate] others without recognising their buddha-nature, we only perform empty and formal deeds.
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📖“I could never find you unworthy of respect. All of you will become buddhas.—The Lotus Sutra
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo
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🗣️Training is no more, and no less, than the effort you put into developing the strength of spirit that keeps you from being discouraged no matter what sorrows or ill fortune befall you and allows you to correctly overcome whatever problems you may encounter.—Nikkyo Niwano
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📖“If they talk about secular texts, governance, means of livelihood, and so forth, all will be in accord with the true Dharma.—The Lotus Sutra
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🗣️Praying to the buddhas to ask them to intercede and change something is usually not real prayer. Praying to live in accordance with the wishes of the buddhas is what is important.—Nikkyo Niwano
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