{"id":307,"date":"2025-01-20T10:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/?p=307"},"modified":"2025-01-20T10:21:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T01:21:42","slug":"id307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/read\/id307\/","title":{"rendered":"LOTUS JEWELS\uff08Nichiren Shu News NO258\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>Scaffolds are needed for building a great tower, and after completion of a tower scaffolds are demolished. This is what is meant by \u201cdiscarding the expedient.\u201d A stupa is built by using a scaffold, but no one worships a scaffold without a stupa.<br><br>\u2014Nichiren Shonin, A Response to My Lady the Nun, Mother of Lord Ueno (ST 388), Ueno-dono Haha-ama Gozen Gohenji<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><br>Nichiren uses this analogy to remind us of the foolishness of following teachings other than the Lotus Sutra. Nichiren shows how all of the pre-Lotus Sutras, and even all non-Buddhist teachings, are merely preparations for the Wonderful Dharma: that all beings will attain Buddhahood and that the ever-present Shakyamuni Buddha is constantly leading us to enlightenment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\u2014Rev. Shinkyo Warner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scaffolds are needed for building a great tower, and after completion of a tower scaffolds are demolished. This is what is meant by \u201cdiscarding the expedient.\u201d A stupa is built by using a scaffold, but no one worships a scaffold without a stupa. \u2014Nichiren Shonin, A Response to My Lady the Nun, Mother of Lord Ueno (ST 388), Ueno-dono Haha-ama Gozen Gohenji Nichiren uses this analogy to remind us of the foolishness of following teachings other than the Lotus Sutra. Nichiren shows how all of the pre-Lotus Sutras, and even all non-Buddhist teachings, are merely preparations for the Wonderful Dharma: that all beings will attain Buddhahood and that the ever-present Shakyamuni Buddha is constantly leading us to enlightenment. \u2014Rev. Shinkyo Warner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-307","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\/307","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=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/309"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/article\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}