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Thank you Maru Maru Sensei, you motivated me to finally get back to the reading and I just made 2 more installments of it now.  Going to hopefully upload it tonight.  

So good thing no one is relying on the careless fast typing of the person, Tim Janakos and they are relying on the law of what the Nirvana Sutra Really said. 

I'm going to edit it above because I was typing fast and it is not what I mean to type. 

Whoops I mistyped.  It is Don't rely on the person rely on the law.  Thank you for correcting my fast typing.  But I will discuss in more in the part 4 and 5 of this reading coming up very soon. 

+Tim Janakos Before we get into it, let me make sure if you make a careless mistake or you believe this way?You stated, "Rely on the person not the law, which was the final commandment in the final sutra, the Nirvanna Sutra. " I think it is Rely on the law(Dahrma) not the person. Is it your mistake or you intentionally wrote this way?

Don't Rely on the person, but rely on the law, which was the final commandment in the final sutra, the Nirvanna Sutra.  The law is your consciousness, so before you believe what Nichiren said, or what shakyamuni said or any other person, chant about it and come to your own conclusion, using your highest state of life.  The law is your 9th level of consciousness which it's truest nature is the 10th state of live or Buddhahood which is your true self.   So I was just saying from what we were discussing about if we are all equal with no distinctions which Shakyamuni said was his original vow than theoretically we should be able to do the eye opening ceremony on a gohonzon and write our own gohonzon, but that does not mean I am recommending that or encouraging that.  I still chant to my wood block copied gohonzon from the great reformer of Nichiren Shoshu, Nichikan Shonin.  But if ever I didn't have that and I didn't have a way of getting one, then I would as a buddha from time without beginning have to come up with a way of making my own.  And maybe I would make mine in English or a picture of the ceremony in the air, which is what the gonhonzon is a replication of.  The true object of worship is our life which the ceremony in the air represents.  

+Tim Janakos This is the most shocking idea in my almost60 year of my life coming from an American who resides in Japan. Because I have read Gosho for a long time, but I have never extracted the idea as you concluded. Any way before I say what I believe at this stage of my life, I let you bring some foundation to support your theory that we may inscribe Gohonzon. As long as it is well‐grounded the based on the Daionin’s saying, I will respect it. Because ultimately we must not conclude the intention of the Daishonin Buddhism based on what I think or what you think, it must come from what the Daishonin taught and left.We must be very humble to hear as sincerer as we can the Daishonin's intention and will. Otherwise, it will be Janakosism or Marumarism.PS.　You said "But I would also try to be as true to Nichiren's intent and follow all of the ritual he wrote about in doing the proper eye opening ceremony on my gohonzon" Who is going to the eye opening ceremony?(Kaigen kuyou開眼供養）Are you going to do it or SGI does it their Honzon? I do not know how to do it.You also said " I know it is really just formality and the true feeling being what you do is more important than formality." How do you know? Any basis or only what you think?

OK since you are very interested, I will try to get to reading more from the gosho soon.  But this isn't the only gosho that says that.  He says it in many gosho around the time when he says he finally completely his mission in life.  And yes, as we are equal that would mean we should be able to inscribe our gohonzon too. But as I didn't practice Kanji enough yet, I like the wooden block replica that SGI is using.  Makes it much nicer than I could do it by hand and it saves me a lot of time and effort.  But if ever the SGI wasn't around and I couldn't rely on any Temple to be following the intent of Nichiren the way the SGI has been for as long as I've been in the SGI 40 plus year, I would definitely inscribe my own gohonzon, but it would still be no better than the gohonzon I already have in my life as Nichiren Said in the gosho on Sado.  But I would also try to be as true to Nichiren's intent and follow all of the ritual he wrote about in doing the proper eye opening ceremony on my gohonzon even though I know it is really just formality and the true feeling being what you do is more important than formality.   

+Tim Janakos If so, could we inscribe our own Gohonzon?　If as you said, ”we are all Buddhas with no distinctions.  Which means no differences.” 　If you answer is Yes. I will not agree with you but it makes at least a sense based on what you say. If the answer is NO, we can not. Then what you said " no differences." is not the case.The second Q is as you said "This Gosho once I get time to read it all will clear that up. It says the we are all the Buddha From Time with Out Beginning and we are all the True Buddha,"where can I find this statement in the Gosho?Which Gosho did you find your saying to support your saying? I could not imagine that the Daihonin meant how you interpreted. You do not have to answer at the same time for these two Qs. Please reply separately if you want. Thank you.

Absolutely.  "I made a vow in the beginning to make all people equal to me with no distinctions."  - Shakyamuni in the Lotus Sutra, he completed his vow with the lotus sutra and there is no distinction between anyone who recites the lotus sutra we are all buddhas with no distinctions.  Which means no differences.  We are all the same, welcome to the latter day of the law and the opening of the eyes. 

+Tim Janakos Do you mean Nichren Daishonin is a Biddha but we are all Buddha as well? No difference?

+Tim Janakos I will get to reading more of it soon, but I've been so crazily busy lately.

+marumarusensei1 This Gosho once I get time to read it all will clear that up. It says the we are all the Buddha From Time with Out Beginning and we are all the True Buddha, we just say Nichiren is it, because he was the first to point out that fact in this gosho that we are all it.

+Tim Janakos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsyyjUSwYn8 This is the rest of the interview and it was a interfaith prayer video CD. And in the SGI Orange County we were part of the interfaith coalition and we used to give talks and performance at many meeting at different religion centers and other faith groups came to our community center too. I chanted Nam myo ho renge kyo at a church in Orange County with many people of the Bahai faith, Christians, Muslims, Jews, etc. This video interview was a similar event. It time we let go of our exclutionism, and start reaching out in solidarity to other faiths, even other Buddhist sects for peace and harmony. It's a different world today.

+marumarusensei1 Tina Turner is an eclectic artist, who is a little out there, but yeah she was with the SGI last time I saw her perform at an SGI function. On many SGI chat sites, I read many comments against this video too, They were saying why does she have a buddha statue? But from what I've been told the place where she was asked to do an interview had all that stuff there and she just was asked to do a prayer there for the video and that is not her personal alter or anything. She was also asked to sing the only reference to God in the We Are the World music video and I'm sure being an artist and knowing they probably chose her to sing that just because they all knew she was Buddhist, she said, I don't give a damn. It's just a lyric to a song and I didn't write it, I'm just performin. I have to dress up like I'm some kind of Christian every weekend when I sing in a fake church in Japan for weddings, but no one going to these weddings are caring anything about the religion of the wedding, they are just wanting to have a Hollywood show. So they know I'm just an actor on a stage. And Tina Turner probably felt te same way in this interview. The people conducting the interview, knew she was buddhist, so they probably not knowing anything out SGI or other sects of Buddhism, just thought it was appropriate to have a buddha statue and as she's a performer doing an interview, she probably didn't care one way of the other. If Madonna asks me to sing "When you Call My Name" with her in the future naked in a church, I'm all for it.