Now we have two ways of reading the Lotus Sutra, and additional way of entering into the Lotus Sutra. The two ways of reading are comprehension of individual words leading to a literal understating of the Lotus Sutra. We have a doctrinal reading which describes and understands the teachings and concepts of the Lotus Sutra. As I have tried to show we now have a mystical transcendental way of reading or more correctly entering into…
The assembled words written in the Lotus Sutra are in the thousands and they each have a meaning Independent of the Lotus Sutra. Additionally when they are assembled in the Lotus Sutra the now exist in relationship to other word and concepts. So the Lotus Sutra communicates to us in a variety of ways. Each word or character communicates its meaning and the assembled words communicate their meaning. The assembled words are greater than…
The Lotus Sutra is the complete Dharma, it is not lacking in any teaching of the Buddha, it does not contain more nor less of the essential teachings to enable all people to attain enlightenment equal to all Buddhas. The Lotus Sutra is the heart and intent as well as the truth of all Buddhas throughout time and space. There is not one character too much nor one character too few. If one character is…
When we use a word in any language it is marker for an idea, it isn’t itself the thing it marks it stands for the thing. When I write ‘car’ I am assembling letters according to conventions of language to represent the concept we know as car. I can not drive to the store in the letters c-a-r so those letters are themselves not the thing they represent. There is more to consider though. …
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