This is very different than what appears in the Human Revolution
for the American Soka Gakkai. Read and decide for yourself
what the message is........
Source: Toda Josei Zenshu (The Complete Writings of
Josei Toda), Vol. 4 Publisher: Wakosha Publishing Co.
Publication Date: December 10, 1965 Pages: 599, 600
Around the middle of November, the light of the morning sun flowed through the three foot window. Having concluded his morning observance, Gan (Toda),
Feeling refreshed, faced the sun and chanted o-daimoku while focusing his heart upon Taisekiji's Gohonzon. The amount of his daimoku had reached 1,800,000.
From around March of that spring, he had begun tallying the number of his daimoku. He took delight at the increase in number. On that day, with the advance of
The number of daimoku, his heart had come to feel perfectly tranquil, and an indescribable joy welled forth. He felt an indescribable peace, like a gentle spring breeze wafting over a field. It was neither dream nor dilirium. He was with an innumerable multitude, neither in the sky nor on the ground, and was he not, along with everyone else, performing obeisance (gassho) to the Gohonzon?
This may have lasted several seconds or it may have lasted several minutes. He had no way of knowing the length of time. However, it was nothing other than the awareness that he was in the world described in the Jujiyujutsu (The Followers'Welling Up from the Earth) Chapter of the Lotus Sutra. That sutra passage reads, "Hearing Shakyamuni's voice as he made his assertions, these bodhisattvas of every variety welled up from below. Each of these bodhisattvas was at the head of a multitude, and each of them led followers as numerous as the sands of sixty thousand Ganges Rivers... Upon completing their pilgrimage, they respectfully faced the two World-Honored Ones..." Gan was a person amongst this tremendous multitude. He had attended the gathering of the Lotus Sutra in the eternal past. The Daishonin states in "Sandaihiho sho" ("The Three Great Secret Laws"), "As the supreme leader of the vast number of bodhisattvas who welled up from the earth, Nichiren without a doubt received the oral bequeathal of the Three Great Secret Laws from the founder, the enlightened World-Honored One, more than two thousand years ago." These words welled up in his breast as though they had been deeply engraved there. The very instant he was about to exclaim that these words were not a lie and that he was now in that very found himself sitting on his chair.
Well, clearly it means that Toda IS the Buddha of Kuon Ganjo, and most like was Shakyamuni's teacher in a past lifetime.
Is that what you read too Bruce?
RG
Posted by: Rev. Greg at May 1, 2008 01:45 PMWhen they re-edited the text, they had to do something about Sakyamuni calling the bodhisattvas, that would mean he is the Original Buddha and not Nichiren.
Also, he uses the Sandihiho, which we now know is a forgery.
And he also says Nichiren received the oral bequeathal from the founder and he couldn't receive it from himself, and Sakyamuni himself says not to believe in oral transmissions.
However, Gregg, this goes against the logic in the Kanjin Honzon Sho, probably Toda from malnutrition had this dream, and it was skewed by his already accepted logic at the time.
Maltz
Posted by: Bruce Maltz at May 1, 2008 02:42 PM