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(Recompense of Indebtedness)
by Nichiren Shonin, translated by Taikyo Yajima, published
1988, 247 pages, Hardbound, Bilingual (English, Japanese)
Hoon is generally regarded
the way human beings should follow. Nichiren Shonin, however,
grasped the essence of the Hoon, regarded as a common ethic
in human society, to be fundamental to Buddhism. That is to
say, Nichiren Shonin saw that ultimately the concept of Hoon,
which is a moral code of ordinary society, has something in
common with the concept of attaining Buddhahood, which is
the basic principle of Buddhism. He believed that attainment
of Buddhahood was not a step in which individual reached an
ideal state but was the only way to perform the recompense
of indebtedness to all living beings.Nichiren Shonin came
to believe this as he saw that worldly and spiritual ideals
are ultimately one and the same. In other words, Nichiren
Shonin realized that complete attainment of Buddhahood meant
complete recompense of indebtedness to all living beings,
and that they are merely two sides of a coin.In the last chapter
he mentions the ultimate intention of his essay, that all
the merit he has accumulated by spreading the Lotus Sutra
at the risk of his life be dedicated to his late Master Dozen.
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