The following is an excerpt of SGI President Ikeda's message to the opening of the exhibition, The Lotus Sutra - A Message of Peace and Harmonious Coexistence, at the University of Madras, India, on October 4, 2007)
"Through the Lotus Sutra, which is likened to the skill of a great physician who can rescue humanity from its sufferings, the three painful paths that beset human beings are transformed into the three virtues of a Buddha. In other words, the sutra has the wonderful power to change the circumstances in which a person is living into those marked by peace and tranquility, a veritable Land of Eternally Tranquil Light."
"The power spoken of in the analogy is the concept of the Buddha nature expounded in the Lotus Sutra. Human beings, though they struggle in the grip of violence, egoism, and ignorance, in face possess within them, and have always possessed, the Buddha nature, which is capable of creating boundless happiness. The sutra teaches how to bring that power to realization. The Lotus Sutra is thus, for human beings, a superbly good medicine, one that represents a method of resuscitating and bringing new meaning to life."
SGI President Ikeda's Message
(Translate from the October 19, 2007, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai daily newspaper)
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