The Oral Transmission of the Meaning

Chapter 25
The Universal Door of the Bodhisattva
Observing the Sounds of the World

#5 The Benefits of the Thirty-Three Lives

The Thirty refers to the Three Thousand doors to the Dharma
The Three Bodies refer to the Three Truths

• The thirty three lives are the ten spiritual realms embraced by the three bodies, making thirty.
• The original three bodies are added to make up the thirty three.

• In the discussion of the three, there are the three karmas.
• The ten are the ten spiritual realms
• The other three are the three poisons

The body is the living body of all living beings.

Now Nichiren and his kind chant Namu-Myoho Renge Kyo, and there are the benefits of the thirty three lives.

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