{"id":261,"date":"2025-01-20T10:25:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/?p=261"},"modified":"2025-01-20T10:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:25:31","slug":"id261","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/read\/id261\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTUS JEWELS\uff08Nichiren Shu News NO264\uff09"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/LOTUS-JEWELS-1-1000x563.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/LOTUS-JEWELS-1-1000x563.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/LOTUS-JEWELS-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/LOTUS-JEWELS-1-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/LOTUS-JEWELS-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/12\/LOTUS-JEWELS-1.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>The Odaimoku is the Buddha\u2019s offering to us. When we chant the Odaimoku, we receive its merits and transform them into an offering to all beings.<br>\u2014Nichiren Shonin, A Treatise Revealing the Spiritual Contemplation and the Most Venerable One, Kanjin Honzon-sho (ST 118)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Shakyamuni Buddha\u2019s merit of practicing the bodhisattva way leading to Buddhahood, as well as that of preaching and saving all living beings since His attainment of Buddhahood are altogether contained in the five characters of Myo, Ho, Ren, Ge, and Kyo, the Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Dharma, and consequently, when we uphold the five characters, the merits which He accumulated before and after His attainment of Buddhahood are naturally transferred to us.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u2014Rev. Shinkyo Warner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Odaimoku is the Buddha\u2019s offering to us. When we chant the Odaimoku, we receive its merits and transform them into an offering to all beings.\u2014Nichiren Shonin, A Treatise Revealing the Spiritual Contemplation and the Most Venerable One, Kanjin Honzon-sho (ST 118) Shakyamuni Buddha\u2019s merit of practicing the bodhisattva way leading to Buddhahood, as well as that of preaching and saving all living beings since His attainment of Buddhahood are altogether contained in the five characters of Myo, Ho, Ren, Ge, and Kyo, the Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Dharma, and consequently, when we uphold the five characters, the merits which He accumulated before and after His attainment of Buddhahood are naturally transferred to us.\u00a0 \u2014Rev. Shinkyo Warner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-read","tag-study"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}