Where do you begin? RIGHT WHERE YOU ARE.
Your childhood, your family, your city, and your first prayers all belong to you. The Law receives them whole. Buddha nature lives in every person, in every land, under every name a heart has given the sacred.
Nichiren Daishonin taught that the Buddha nature dwells within each of us. The Gosho states: "When with our mouths we chant the Mystic Law, our Buddha nature, being summoned, will invariably emerge."
Read that sentence slowly. Your mouth, your voice, your life today. That is enough to begin. Your present life is the doorway, and it stands open.
A Law that belongs to all life responds to the sincerity of your voice. The roots you carry and the practice you begin today rest together in one heart, and that heart grows wider for it.
Many people carry a calling for years before they find a word for it. That calling is Buddha nature stirring. It waits inside you, and one voice of Namu Myoho Renge Kyo answers it.
Chant from the place where you stand. The Law meets you there with its FULL WEIGHT, and every cause you plant today begins to grow.
You have arrived. BEGIN NOW.
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo.
