The “Opening of the Eyes” is Nichiren’s treatise on the nature of “GoHonzon”; the nature of RenGe as the very foundation and realization of our practice to shift our minds from Samsara to Buddha.

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Seek your experience of Buddha. Follow the “Law” not the “person”. Your enlightenment comes through your effort; it can never come through the efforts of others.

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Your mind constructs your reality. Therefore, a cluttered mind mis-perceives all life, while a clear mind can experience the true flow of life and our momentum as we experience it.

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Bad teachers have misled many of us. From this turmoil however, we can redouble our understanding and clarity in our daily efforts to awaken and maintain our Gohonzon-Buddha Mind.

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We will never be in a “better place” than we can experience right now, right here. This IS the better place. The ‘difference’ is only in our mind.

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The toughest lesson is the realization that Buddha is immediately and has always been accessible to experience in our lives; not as something ‘other’ but as our very ‘self’.

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Nichiren describes the Treasure Tower and Life Span chapters as the very “RenGe” of the ‘Opening of the Eyes’ or GoHonzon of our Buddhist practice of awakening.

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Mandala is like a ladder, whereas the view from the top is Gohonzon and the experience is Buddha.

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Our friends and loved ones are the very motivation to redouble our own strength of conviction and resolve in our practice and experience of Buddhahood.

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Gohonzon is the lifting of the eyelid from the Buddha eye, providing the witnessing and experience of the Dharma.

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