BECOME MASTER OF YOUR MIND
THE
MYSTIC NATURE OF OUR LIVES – “BECOME THE MASTER OF YOUR MIND RATHER THAN LET
YOUR MIND MASTER YOU”
It is
the heart that is important, writes Nichiren Daishonin. Our heart, our mind,
is truly wondrous and unfathomable. We can expand and deepen the inner
realm of our spirit infinitely and boundlessly.
Like
the elation of soaring freely through the vast blue heavens, the heart can feel
immense and untrammeled joy. Like the clear, bright sunshine illuminating all
things, the heart can embrace those who are suffering with warmth and
compassion. And like a lion of justice, the heart can also at times tremble
with righteous anger and defeat evil. Indeed, our heart or mind is constantly
changing, like scenes in a drama or like an unfolding panorama. And nothing is
more wondrous than its ability to manifest the world of Buddhahood. Even people
weighed down by delusion and suffering can bring forth in the depths of their
lives the state of buddhahood that is one with the universe. This momentous
drama of transformation is the greatest of all wonders.
Buddhism
finds supreme nobility and the potential for great change in all human beings.
In “On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime”, the Daishonin therefore
concludes that when we thoroughly polish our lives through chanting the daimoku
of Myoho-renge-kyo, it is possible for us to tap the life-state of
Buddhahood no matter how steeped in delusion we may be, and to transform even
the most impure and evil into a pure land.
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