Teachings

Q. How did HBS get their priesthood? Did the HBS at some point (in the 1900’s) merge with a sect that already had priests (just like the Kempon Hokke Shu was at one time united with the Nichiren Shu, or … Read More

I was asked a question from one of our members the other day, “You state ‘Okyomu-san is none other than disciples of the Primordial Buddha and Nichiren Shonin because they engage themselves in teaching and propagating the Odaimoku day in … Read More

I bring fullness and satisfaction to the world,like a rain that spreads its moisture everywhere.Eminent and lowly, superior and inferior,observers of precepts, violators of precepts,those fully endowed with proper demeanor,those not fully endowed,those of correct views, of erroneous views,of keen … Read More

In the threefold world,there is neitherbirth nor death,or going away nor coming forth,and there is no existing in this worldand later entering extinction. Chapter 16 of The Lotus Sutra, The Life Span of the Buddha It is natural to fear … Read More

This threefold worldis all my domain,and the living beings in itare all my children. Chapter 3 of the Lotus Sutra, A Parable The Buddha said in the Lotus Sutra that every living being is a part of Him and at the … Read More

Hurting others we hurt ourselvesThat is the law of the universe RacismInequalityMurder ViolenceCrueltyWar What are we doing?Let’s stop the destruction.The world needs us to unite. We are one – BuddhaWe are one – universeWe are one – life LOVE over hateRESPECT over … Read More

From the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate to the Meiji Restoration, Nissen Shōnin (Seifū Nagamatsu), the founder of Honmon Butusyū Shū, lived through ever‐changing, and turbulent times. It was also the days of the Cholera pandemic. And since there wasn’t a … Read More

Most people only worry about others’ eyesFollowers also worry about Buddha’s eyes Gokyōka (No. 484)—didactic poem by Nissen Shōnin(the Complete Writings of Nissen Shōnin Vol. 15, p. 122) Since most people in the world don’t understand the world of the … Read More

Don’t thinkyou can improve laterBe a ray of light piercing the darkness Gokyōka (No. 1679)—didactic poem by Nissen Shōnin(the Complete Writings of Nissen Shōnin Vol. 14, p. 155) When you are being vain or lazy or straying in some other … Read More

A merciful heart to save peopleby chanting the Odaiomkuis just proof of a Bodhisattva. [Gokyoka—Instructive poem by Nissen Shonin] The will to save others by both chanting ourselves and having them chant the Odaimoku can make manifest evidence of meritorious … Read More