Bodhisattva Never Disparaging

 "All will be saved."


I've even gone so far as to think that this is the same as what Bodhisattva Never Disparaging, who appears in the Lotus Sutra, already proclaimed: "I do not despise you. You will all become Buddhas."


Isn't it the same thing when I say "All will be saved" and when Bodhisattva Never Disparaging says "All will become Buddhas"? So what I'm doing is just copying Bodhisattva Never Disparaging.


It's an honor.


This bodhisattva was always spreading the word, "I do not despise you. You will all become Buddhas," so everyone found him annoying, and he ended up being persecuted by people throwing stones at him and hitting him with sticks. So what did this bodhisattva do?


"He ran away to avoid them and shouted from afar, 'I do not despise you. You will all become Buddhas.'"


Not cool. Instead of facing them with dignity, he cowardly runs away, turning his back on the enemy and howling from afar like a defeated dog, uttering parting shots with unrepentant contempt.


"All people will be saved."


In other words,


"But you will still be saved."


Is it trying to make fun of me? I'm sure it went something like this. I could just quote it exactly, but that's just what I can't. The Buddha has sealed the scriptures and I can't open them. The Lotus Sutra is right there, just a few dozen centimeters in front of me and to my left, within reach,though.


Anyway, if I'm attacked, I'll run, run, run, and shout those curses from afar.


"But you will still be saved."


No, I mean, I'll shout those blessings.


No matter how uncool it may seem, I'll run, run, run, and survive. This life is something precious God has given me, so I'll cherish it to the very end and fulfill it. And then,


"All people will be saved."


"But you will still be saved."


I'll throw out some parting shots from afar.


I guess this is the way of life of herbivores, the weak. A rabbit, for example. It's only fast at running away. I'm not good at fighting. If a rabbit goes up against a lion, it's just a stupid rabbit. But just because I'm weak, I'm not going to let myself be eaten so easily.


God does provide the weak with the means to survive, in their own way.


But what does "all people will be saved" mean? What's going to change in my life?


Besides, you said you'd go to Christianity after Buddhism, but you haven't gotten there at all.


Oh, I still haven't said much that I need to say. Which of the above two should I go to first?


I'll think about that next time.


Let Love and Mercy guide me.

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