…So Zen Buddhists, Especially Zen, Actually arose from maybe tendai, but his teaching, but the difference between tendai and Zen or Nichiren, the other schools, they treat this sutra King, King of the King, the most important. But we do not treat this…

…our fundamental teaching. We do not discriminate. This is scripture for Soto, this is the koan for rinzai. This is scripture for Nichiren Sect, this is the scripture just for dioran school. And all the sutra is our sutra. Whatever the teaching is, if we…

…you know it is so. And that period in history of Japanese Buddhism, that makpo, the last period, started from Kamakura Period when Nichiren or Shinran appeared dogen, you know appeared in the same age it is, it may be about one thousand two hundred. And…

…know appeared in the same age it is, it may be about one thousand two hundred. And so Shinran or dogen, Shinran or Nichiren, thought because this is a time of the last period of Buddhism, when Buddhism will be banished, so the teaching should be…

…be changed, the teaching should be some teaching which is which could be applied in the last period of Buddhism. That is why Nichiren and by Nichiren and Shinran a kind of reformation of Buddhism was done. But it is not actually reformation, it is more…

…teaching should be some teaching which is which could be applied in the last period of Buddhism. That is why Nichiren and by Nichiren and Shinran a kind of reformation of Buddhism was done. But it is not actually reformation, it is more we can say,…

…you know, and with strong faith believing in Amida Buddha's power. Then we will be saved. That was in short, Shinran's way. And Nichiren, you know thought it is, you know, the time of the mappo now, but according to lotus sutra, if we recite lotus sutra…

…great you know great lineage of Buddhists or various religions said: you know buddha, you know left teaching just for me you know Nichiren said: you know lotus buddha left lotus sutra just for Nichiren, just for me, not for anyone else, just for me. If…

…you know buddha, you know left teaching just for me you know Nichiren said: you know lotus buddha left lotus sutra just for Nichiren, just for me, not for anyone else, just for me. If that side is forgotten, you know the buddha's teaching is nothing,…

…is just for me. That is the side, that is the spirit we need in our zazen practice. Everyone can be you know, Nichiren, Everyone can be dogen or Bodhidharma. Because I practice you know zazen, there is buddha, there is dogen, there is Bodhidharma and…

…practice, they thought, but because of that Buddhists were lost. How about that? So after that, in Kamakura Period, Zen Buddhists Nichiren and Shinran was angry about that kind of luxurious practice and stood up and opened New Buddhist way to city people.…