The process of resonance and deepening

 I was troubled by the sheer number of Buddhist scriptures, but now I think they were all expressions of the Buddha's compassion. They are all organically connected, and I think that it would be a disregard of the Buddha's compassion to say which is higher and which is lower, or to take which and discard which.


The image is that the entire Buddhist scriptures form one whole body, and each scripture is like a part of that body. Or perhaps it's like the process of the Buddha's answer to the ultimate problem of "saving everyone."


For example, the Lotus Sutra suddenly gives the answer that "everyone will become a Buddha," but if you read the Lotus Sutra as it is, your honest impression is that you don't really know what to do to achieve that. I think that this is the ultimate answer to the ultimate problem, and the process of answering that leads to this has continued from the original Buddhist scriptures to the Lotus Sutra. First, the historical Buddha preached the law, and then the law continued to be preached under the guidance of compassion, and new Buddhist scriptures appeared through a process of resonance and deepening. That is why the Lotus Sutra also warns us: "When spreading this sutra, do not spread it by speaking ill of other sutras." If you only have the answer to solve a difficult problem, you will not understand the process that led to it, and you will not be able to understand the answer in the end. This process of resonance and deepening continued even after the Lotus Sutra was preached, and new Buddhist scriptures appeared. That is why there are Buddhist scriptures that were established after the Lotus Sutra. This process of resonance and deepening will continue forever. Furthermore, the process of resonance and deepening continues across religious boundaries and between religions. By the way, even though all Buddhist scriptures are organically connected to form one whole, and we should not discuss the superiority or inferiority of each, or the selection and rejection of each, in reality, unless you are a very specialized monk, it is impossible to read and understand all the Buddhist scriptures. This will not save many people. So the saints must have thought that they had no choice but to focus on certain scriptures and spread their teachings. Is this how the various Buddhist sects came about? Or perhaps the reason there are so many Buddhist scriptures is because the teachings cannot be explained in words, and so sects that teach enlightenment through Zen meditation have appeared. Either way, the saints have thought up various ways to save us fools through the guidance of compassion. No matter which path we follow, as long as it is based on mercy, we will reach salvation. And on the path to salvation, I think all the resonances and deepening processes that lead to the answer will be revealed. In other words, if we rely on one scripture and proceed from there as guided by mercy, all scriptures will be revealed.


The reason I am writing this at length is because there is no future or hope in the fruitless sectarian disputes between Buddhisms and the fruitless disputes between religions.


If we proceed "as guided by love and mercy," all we can say is this.

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