The scholarship of Buddhist teachings and practice is an incumbent demand of living our most fully expressed potential.

The ”truth” is obvious, ”The Emperor is Naked”! The obstacles of attachment and disbelief can be near impossible to overcome. Our confidence is necessary to defeat the doubts that blind us to the truth.

The achievement of complete mastery of the Buddha Way and Awakening is the highest expression of gratitude for all parent, teacher, or sovereign in one’s life.

The culmination of the lifetime teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha is the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus practice is the self-practice of invoking Buddhaness immediately in this life.

Tien-Tai’s ‘3000 realms (existences) in a single thought moment’ doctrine makes explicit the “original enlightenment” within all phenomena.

The Perfect teachings of the Fifth Period contain the explicit teachings of Tien-Tai’s ‘3000 realms (existences) in a single thought moment’ doctrine.

Throughout the Five Periods and the Four Doctrines, the teachings contained within them are all in service to and directed toward the self-practice teachings of the Lotus Sutra.

When you arouse the desire for enlightenment, you immediately become the Kaidan (place of enlightenment) to invoke the (Daimoku, essence) of Honzon (Buddhaness).

A hard line of realization between the Hinayana (Tripitaka and Common) nihilism and the Distinct (Bodhisattva) teachings shuns Sravaka and Pratyakabuddha until the Lotus Sutra.

The Four Doctrinal Teachings, from Tripitaka to Common, Wisdom and Perfect, of Shakyamuni Buddha, as Outlined by Nichiren Shonin.