Nichiren Buddhists believe that the world -
our entire environment and everyone and everything in it
is a reflection of our own lives, and that any real change comes from changing from within...doing our own "Human Revolution." And then we see the "world" around us change. We've all experienced this many times.
So...
If the world is a reflection of our own lives,
doesn't it make sense to fall in love with our own lives?
Isn't the Gohonzon our own life? It is the deepest and best part of our own lives. What if we concentrated and chanted to fall in love with our own lives by
falling in love with the Gohonzon?
What can I mean?
Fall in love with a piece of paper?
Those of us who chant the Mystic Law know that the Gohonzon, the scroll we chant to - we face - we focus on - is a depiction by Nichiren Daishonin of our lives - our highest possible potential - Nam-myoho-renge-kyo in the depths of our lives. In this light, falling in love with the Gohonzon is falling in love with my life itself!
This guidance came to me from a senior leader, and it made sense to me. Fall in love with the Gohonzon, fall in love with your own life, and you will find your lover because your love for your own life will attract him.
"A lotus seed may be buried in mud for thousands of years, until, when conditions are right, it sprouts, grows and sends forth buds. Cherry trees endure the harsh winter to blossom beautifully in spring. Nichiren is saying that no matter how trying our circumstances, flowers of happiness will emerge from our lives and adorn it."
Daisaku Ikeda, Living Buddhism, 11/14, p. 29
I am basking in love right now - and I believe it is because I have been chanting in love with my Gohonzon - which is my life itself. I think these the following PowerPrayer when I chant. This has been a breakthrough prayer for me. As I am chanting, I am keeping the spirit of this PowerPrayer in mind. I am feeling my love for my Gohonzon - my life as I chant the Mystic Law Nam-myoho-renge-kyo!
I offer it in love and gratitude to you:
PowerPrayer for
Falling in Love with Your Gohonzon
Falling in Love with Yourself!
~and finding true love -
and/or cultivating the love you have!
By Jamie Lee Silver of ChantforHappiness.com
Oh Life!
Oh Heart!
I am overflowing in Gratitude to this wonderful Gohonzon
~MY OWN LIFE here before me!
Gohonzon! You have been
my strong supporting arm,
my torch, my guide!
You have always been here for me - all these years of my practice.
I feel my love flowing towards you!
Thank you Gohonzon, thank you my life!
As I am chanting I am feeling this love pouring from me
this gratitude
this light!
My own love for my own self is blooming, blooming, blooming! Gohonzon!
Let me now experience the magnificence of my own life in ways I've never experienced before.
Silence my critical mind!
Bring forth my praising mind ~ my self, dancing in gratitude!
Oh Gohonzon!
Bring forth all who love me, including MYSELF!
So that we can dance in joy forever.
I open my life to love from within and without
in this golden dance
I draw to me all who wish to dance in the light of love.
