"As Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) once observed: "Difficulties . . .[are] incident to new improvements.'"
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The body is the palace of the ninth consciousness, the unchanging reality that reigns over all of life's functions."
* In saying, "The body is the palace of the ninth consciousness " Nichiren Daishonin emphasizes that the potential for Buddhahood exists within us.
He taught that by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, we can gain access to this ninth consciousness, the ultimate depth of life. Activated by our daimoku, its light, so to speak, floods upward to illuminate the workings of the other eight conscious times, so that the entire interlocking network of causes and effects forming our individual existence comes to be based on enlightenment. By tapping the Buddha nature or the ninth consciousness within, we can fundamentally change our karma for the better and establish an unshakable state of life.
(SGI-USA Study Entrance-level Textbook)
(The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page832)
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