This book was published in 2000. Since then, I have read it more than five times. Recently one of my friends suggested to read and discuss this book together chapter by chapter twice a week. It took about a month to complete it.

I wrote many pages long note and my impressions and determination while reading. It forces me to pause reading and contemplate it for a moment. Then I feel thrilled to know the truth that how precious and amazing we each of us are.

The Lotus Sutra is considered as the highest teaching(sutra) expounded by original historic Buddha Shakyamuni because it reveals the ultimate truth and realization Buddha understood in the Lotus Sutra, whereas the other sutras reveal partial truth.

The Lotus Sutra teaches of the great hidden treasure of the heart, as vas as the universe itself, which dispels any feelings of powerlessness. It teaches a dynamic way of living in which we breathe the immense life of the universe itself. It teaches the true great adventure of self-reformation.” P Forward

It is important to note here that the teachings of Buddhism from the very beginning were always concerned with enabling people to manifest the noble and infinitely powerful life state of Buddhahood. And indeed, that should always be the purpose of buddhist practice.

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The universe contains both positive and negative workings or functions. Representatives of the Ten Worlds are all depicted on the Gohonzon. … Nichiren teaches that such representatives of the positive and negative workings of the universe are all without exception illuminated by the light of Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo, enabling them to display “the dignified attributes that they inherently possess,” and that this is the function of the Gohonzon. (See WND-1, 832)

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The Nichiren Daishonin writes, “The Lotus Sutra is like the water of the great ocean, a single drop of which contains water from all the countless streams and rivers” (WND, 69). All the treasures of the universe are there in each individual. The drama of infinite value-creation begins with the actions of one person.

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It encouraged me so deeply that I now regain power to challenge and fight struggles again to transform my life. I feel my life is charged. I recommend reading to anyone who feels powerlessness esp. during this pandemics.