January 20, 2025
LOTUS JEWELS（Nichiren Shu News NO252）
You should therefore establish your fame as one who practices the Lotus Sutra and devote your life to it.
—Nichiren Shonin, Shoho Jisso-sho, Treatise on All Phenomena as the Ultimate Reality (ST 122)
In our world of global communication and celebrity, far too many of us seek fame through working long hours to train ourselves as scholars, athletes or musicians, devoting ourselves to the goals of companies or political organizations, or even getting as close as we can to famous people hoping their fame will somehow rub off on us. Nichiren teaches us that true fame comes from the true Dharma, and that by practicing and upholding the Lotus Sutra, worldly fame is irrelevant.
—Rev. Shinkyo Warner