Nichiren Daishonin writes in the Gosho: The Universal Worthy Sutra states, “Without either cutting off earthly desires or separating themselves from the five desires, they can purify all their senses and wipe away all their offenses.”
What are the Five Desires in Buddhism?
1) The desires that arise from the contact of the five sense organs (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and body) with their respective objects (color and form, sound, smell, taste, and texture).
(2) The desires for wealth, sexual love, food and drink, fame, and sleep.
The profound teaching of Nichiren Daishonin's " Buddhism" offers us a practical solution to answer the problems of Love, Sex and Relationships. In the Gosho on Attaining Buddhahood Nichiren Daishonin writes; "You must never think that any of the eighty thousand sacred teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha's lifetime or any of the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions and three existences are outside yourself. Your practice of the Buddhist teachings will not relieve you of the sufferings of birth and death in the least unless you perceive the true nature of your life.
If you seek enlightenment outside yourself, then your performing even ten thousand practices and ten thousand good deeds will be in vain."
The first thing that "True Buddhism" teaches is that the answers to every problem exist within you or yourself. The Buddhist teachings of Nichiren Daishonin are not carried out upon some mountains with some Buddhist monks meditating or escaping problems of the world. "True Buddhism" does not advocate looking in the sky for God, Jesus or Allah to save us. If a young man like Tiger Woods, Cris Brown, Governor Mark Sanford, or Miss Japanese Universe Horoko Mima or even President Barack Obama finds himself or herself in the difficult circumstances of Love, Sex and Relationships the answer exists within the life of each person. True happiness is the development of our Buddha Nature.
Nichiren Daishonin explains problems in a general catagory as "The Suffering of Birth and Death" and Love, Sex and Relationships certainly fit the catagory of the "Sufferings of Birth and Death." In the Gosho Nichiren Daishonin writes:
"If you wish to free yourself from the sufferings of birth and death you have endured since time without beginning and to attain without fail unsurpassed enlightenment in this lifetime, you must perceive the mystic truth that is originally inherent in all living beings."
The case of perceiving the mystic truth or understanding this mystic truth we Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist Chant the words Nam(u) Myoho Renge Kyo and we Study the teachings of Buddhism. Nichiren Daishonin teach us about this law or Myoho or the "ultimate reality" or "Myoho." The law or ultimate reality is called such because it reveals the principle of the
"Mutually Inclusive Relationship"
of a Single Moment of Life and all Phenomena. This is why this is called the wisdom of all Buddhas.
Nichiren Daishonin writes in the Gosho "On attaining Buddhahood:"
Life at each moment encompasses the body and mind and the self and environment of all sentient beings in the Ten Worlds as well as all insentient beings in the three thousand realms, including plants, sky, earth, and even the minutest particles of dust. Life at each moment permeates the entire realm of phenomena and is revealed in all phenomena. To be awakened to this principle is itself the
mutually inclusive relationship
of life at each moment and all phenomena. Nevertheless, even though you chant and believe in Myoho-renge-kyo, if you think the Law is outside yourself, you are embracing not the Mystic Law but an inferior teaching.
We Nichiren Buddhist Chant the words Nam(u) Myoho Renge Kyo to an "Object of Worship" called a Gohonzon. This Gohonzon is a scroll or paper. Where I will lose you at and what is difficult to understand is the fact that this "Gohonzon" is infused with the "Spiritual Quality" of the "Buddha Shakyamuni. When you have an audience with the "Gohonzon" it is like actually meeting the "True Buddha" Shakyamuni. The Budda nature is inherent in all phenomena and it is inside of all of us however it takes a Buddha in our enviroment to bring our Buddha nature out. When we chant Nam Myoho Renge Kyo to the Gohonzon our life fuses with that of the Buddha and we experience the Life condition of the Buddha. Please note what you see in the picture is my personal "Wooden Altar" that I had "Hand Made" by an African carver in "Accra Ghana" in 2005 and shipped to me in March of 2006. The Gohonzon, Black & Gold object (sacred object) inside. Click to hear the song that represent our Chanting.
In the Gosho (Buddhist Bible) "The Sutra of True Requital" Nichiren writes;"When we open the Lotus Sutra and look into it, it is as though we were seeing our own face in a bright mirror, or as though the sun had come out and we were able to discern the colors of the plants and trees."
