Your Attitude in Front of the Gohonzon From Dr. Yamazaki

       Your attitude in front of the Gohonzon is like being on a holiday.

It is necessary to cut yourself off from work, from daily life.

This is important in order to regenerate, to be free of tension and relaxed.

If your practice is a prolongation of your social life, it will not be effective.

     In the ceremony in the air (Gongyo), you cut yourself off from the earth

rising above. If you are dominated by your problems in front of the Gohonzon

nothing good appears. It is necessary to rise above, to make it a special moment

relaxing. This is a ceremony of " Ku". I am a Buddha in front of the Gohonzon!

    The Gohonzon is like a mirror, it is not necessary to be either imprisoned,

nor attached, nor dominated, nor guilty, nor worthless, nor have arrogance

in order enter the world of the Gohonzon.

It is necessary to be indifferent to your own thoughts. You do not fight in front

of the Gohonzon. Be relaxed as though being in the air without limits.

With this kind of ichinen for 15 minutes........this is enough.

      From your first daimoku, change the world, feel the universe, realize

" Ku", "Ke", and "Chu"!

      ("Ku" is the world of the Buddha; "Ke" is oneself, "Chu" is all the

strength and wisdom of the universe.)

       You can recuperate all the forces of the universe. The wisdom to listen,

to believe, to meditate, and to decide. Reject your own arrogance in order

to allow your own wisdom to appear, going beyond time and space to

Detoxify yourself in front of the Gohonzon. Nothing is too far away in the morning and in the evening.....this is when you are Buddha.

You must have confidence to find a sense of the Ceremony in the Air and

declare your conviction to be the Buddha of eternal life, the Buddha of

Ichinen Sanzen, and the Buddha of confidence and joy!