1. Volume One
2. Volume Two
3. Volume Three
4. What is Daimoku
5. On Becoming
6. The Buddha's Work
7. A Debt of Gratitude
8. Longing for Masters
9. Samsara and the Ego
10. Samsaric Opportunity
11. Singlemindedly desire to see the Buddha
12. The Two Great Concepts
13. Pain of ending friendships
14. The Buddha's Teaching
15. Broad Study but Focused Practice
16. Merits of Teaching the Law

The Merits of Teaching the Law

Please take time to digest the previous email. I understand journeys, and I also understand journeys on inferior vehicles. They can lead to disablements and deep regret. Just that much more to expiate later. I am always conscious to remove my "self" as much as I can recognize it, from the letters ad essays I write. They are truly not my teachings. I am a simple Bodhisattva of the Earth, a pratyekabuddha, trying his best to follow the teachings of the Lotus Sutra where it states directly to the Bodhisattvas of the Earth:

"Moreover, Constant Exertion, if good men or good women accept and uphold this sutra after the Thus Come One has entered extinction, if they read it, recite it, explain and preach it, or transcribe it, they will acquire twelve hundred mind benefits. Because of purity of their mental faculties, when they hear no more than one verse or one phrase [of the sutra], they will master immeasurable and boundless numbers of principles. And once having understood these principles, they will be able to expound and preach on the single phrase or a single verse for a month, for four months, or for a whole year, and the doctrines that they preach during that time will conform to the gist of the principles and will never be contrary to true reality.
"If they should expound some text of the secular world or speak on matters of government or those relating to wealth and livelihood, they will in all cases conform to the correct Law. With regard to the living beings in the six realms of existence of a thousand-million-fold world, they will understand how the minds of those living beings work, how they move, what idle theories they entertain.

"Thus although they have not yet acquired the wisdom of no outflows, the purity of their minds will be a such that the thought of these persons, their calculations and surmises and the words they speak, will in all cases represent the Law of the Buddha, never departing from the truth, and also conform with what was preached in the sutras of former Buddhas."

This teaching, the Nineteenth chapter of the Lotus Sutra, also repeats for all of the six senses.

It is a teaching for the mindset of the Heroic. A mindset I seem to have hardwired into my being since childhood. It often surprises me, the lengths I will go at the exigency of this mindset. And so, as an artist, political remonstrator, student and teacher, I am no different.

This is how I love.

Reverend Sylvain Chamberland, Nyudo