The Lotus Sutra's Most Important Passage EXPLAINED

hey, love the content but here's a suggestion - please don't use background notes & don't fast-forward the speed. the genuine audience will stay

I loved this video. I have a question, if you could answer it I would appreciate it. What happens to a Buddha when he dies? I have trouble believing that Buddha continues to act in the world as Lotus says.

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There is an incredible line in the Lotus Sutra where the Buddha says regarding 2,500 yrs in the future (now) : it runs something like " at that time I will be a Buddha in another land". I wish 🙏 you could expand on that

The music is wild man.

Thank you for explaining this wonderful sutra in understandable English. My deep respect. Please continue your good work benefits of the many.
Nammu Myoho Renge Kyo 🙏

I'm listening through the lotus sutra right now.. and... There is so much stuff repeated... Apparently useless stuff repeated so damn much...

I was expecting 11 hours of wisdom and lessons and insight into being a better person and Buddhist.

99% of it is "and he received a prediction, that he would live so many kalpas and helps so many innumerable conscious beings and then become a Buddha, and describing the world of a Buddha a thousand times.

A world made of lapis lazuli, and completely flat, while interesting, doesn't sound great to me. I like mountains!

I'm 9 hours in only there's only been 3 twenty minute sections of actual lessons in it...

There is no mentioned for human revolution in order to feel/understand and experienced ones intrinsic treasure of the heart to practice the Lotus Sutra.Buddhism is for living.

Good explanation of the sutra.However, how does one awaken to ones own transformation to embrace none exclusivity?.

I am concerned about taking spiritual advice from someone who didn't read the manual for that microphone.

Namu Myoho Renge Kyo

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Thank you for sharing this video. A good insight into the Lotus Sutra. Namu Myoho Renge Kyo ❤

i did not like the music, bad fit with the sutra! disturbing for the focused mind

I will return... someday. .......When the music is conductive to understanding, a crash course... it is

As a new buddhist thank you for the wisdom sir

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If you don't have 27 minutes then here's what the video is about: The verse mentioned is from Chapter Two of The Lotus Sutra, called "Skillful Means." In this chapter, the Buddha explains the concept of the One Vehicle and emphasizes that all beings have the potential to attain enlightenment.

The verse "there is nothing other than the One Vehicle Dharma" means that there is only one universal truth or path to enlightenment. The Buddha taught various teachings throughout his life, tailored to the capacities and dispositions of his audience. However, in essence, all those teachings point to the same ultimate truth, which is the realization of our inherent Buddha nature and the path to enlightenment.

The One Vehicle is the teaching that encompasses all beings and provides a means for everyone to attain liberation. It is a metaphorical representation of the ultimate truth that transcends all divisions and distinctions. This teaching implies that all beings, regardless of their background, abilities, or differences, have the potential to achieve enlightenment.

The next part of the verse says, "There is neither a second or a third." This emphasizes that there are no other separate vehicles or paths to enlightenment. It rejects the notion that there are multiple exclusive paths that lead to liberation. The Buddha taught that all beings can follow the One Vehicle to attain enlightenment, and there is no need for any other distinct teachings or vehicles.

This verse is significant because it promotes the idea of inclusivity and equality in the path to enlightenment. It teaches that every individual has the capacity to realize their inherent Buddha nature and attain liberation. It recognizes the unity of all beings and highlights the universality of the teachings in The Lotus Sutra.

Why music in the background as it obfuscates your talking

Great ,wonderful explanation

Mahayana as a whole is a false path, the lotus sutra is even more so to an extreme

This is a fake Sutta

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Did anyone tell you you talk too much

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The Music wss really distracting....

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The music creates a distraction from content you are sharing

Music is distracting. Please avoid music.

Mahayana/Bodhisattva could be described as the understanding that there is only this moment to moment relationship that counts - not the accumulation of merit for some future achievement.

Excellent!

Lets apply in our daily life when you encounter people who belittle you, sway your opinion, look down on you or cheat you for their own personal gain. How do you believe in their buddha nature?

Very informative. Thank you eternally ❤❤❤

Further to your last message to me: the statement is “emptiness is NOT nothingness” But isn’t that the same as saying “emptiness IS somethingness”? What is that somethingness? Isn’t emptiness, empty?

Who is you? Who is everyone? How do we stop "I" am a Buddha?

so how does this relate to emptiness and No Self?

Which book is the lotus sutra apart of? I have my Dhammapada and a few others like the Anguttara Nikaya, Digha Nikaya, and my favorite is the Kusita-Arambhavatthu Sutta, the layman and overcoming laziness. Where the dharma Chakra is utilized by the eight fold path overcoming the 4 noble truths sukkah.

Am not familiar with as regarding them as sutras, only suttas which I solidarity use the verses of the dhammapada, but as for the diamond sutra, the heart sutra and now the lotus sutras among many others, where can we find them? Are they separate books, are they written along side or by Gautama Buddha?

Very good stuff I love from Buddhism, always keep a Buddhist prayer wheel to tap into the dharma with mantraing out various suttas like the thousands, evil, the flower, the wise, the fool, the king elephant and others. They are so comforting in intervals of distress and erring, which brings me back to the stream of my life.

Thank you friend.

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As-salamu alaykum 🙏

Peace be with you 🙏

Great contenent, very well explained and presented, thanks you very much for sharing this knowledge.
However i would like to say that the background muisc doesn't really fit.. as well as the "are you ready 3-2-1" are things that could be cut off. That is only my impresion, no judgment attached, just a persoal feedback. I Hope to see this chanell grow and the Dharma to be spreaded to all santient beeings 🙏

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Great video and information - just a suggestion the music is distracting and takes away from what you are trying explain.

The heart of the Lotus Sutra is in the title. The Lifespan chapter is the essential chapter of the entire manuscript (the ancient text.) however in the latter day only the mantra is the correct Lotus Sutra Talk to me sbout japan & culturapp 南無Myoho Renge Kyo Nam Myoho Renge Kyo!

religions,traditions,orders,sects,are many,the temporary goals are different for each one,same for the entities you will meet,the world/dimension you will travel and the next body you will get if you don't get to Liberation,but ultimate objective is the same which is realize what we really are God in religious terms,Source,Presence,Awarness,Consciousness,Buddha Nature,Christ Consciousness,the Void,Emptiness,etc.. all seemingly different words but all point to the same "thing" which is not even a thing and it's all the names i already wrote,but the names are not It they just point toward It,this is crucial to understand,like for example a finger that point to the moon it's not the moon itself,many many blessings brothers and sisters,may we all realize what is Real (God,Source,Buddha Nature,Consciousness etcc..) and be free from suffering,om shanti shanti om ,we are 1 this one is 0,here witht this last one very short sentence all and more is said, (think about even computer what they are to their core is a string of zeros and ones)🙏

it's crazy how incredible real history is,so amazing beyond our mind in the west can't even think about,it's sad how there with the school system we have killed all that is not in accord with that particular frame of understanding (which come on is very reductive and i would say even autistic)

nam myoho renge kyo. Thank you for posting this astute discussion of the one vehicle. As for the homework assignment,,, When he says "We are now true shravakas" its an acknowledgement that they heard and understood the message of the one vehicle. Now understanding that they are also bohdisattvas, they will teach others. Also I'd emphasize true here, in that they've heard the true voice and true message of the one Buhdda conciousness.

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Good insight into the entire Lotus sutra. In Soka Gakkai, only recite the daimoku and gongyo of chapters 2 and 16 of the Lotus sutra. As a Buddhist lay practitioner, can one gain enlightenment by reciting ch 2 and 16 of the Lotus sutra? Is Nichiren Daishonin a Buddha of the latter day?

Thank you :)