Response to Bhikkhu Gyoen Campos

The Bhikkhu Gyoen Campos wrote:

Mr. Marcos,

We would like to offer your Lotus Sutra in our site: www.budismo.com.br. We have it there, but that Portuguese version of João Rodrigues. It would be much more interesting put your version, and also disclosure it for sale.

What do you think about the idea? Do you have the digital format to send us? If approved, please send me and I will take action.

Thank you for everything.

Arigatougozaimashita!

Bhikkhu Gyoen Campos.

Dear Bhikkhu Gyoen Campos,

As regard the disclosure of the Lotus Sutra on the site of HBS - Honmon Butsuryu Shu from Brazil (www.budismo.com.br), I get this proposition with great joy, because this is the first institutional expression of support for this work in Brazil.

I am attaching a digital version in PDF format, although it can also be obtained by downloading in the Blog Cristal Perfeito, no problems. The link to the publisher's marketing is as follows: http://www.tmaisoito.com.br/novos_autores/o_sutra_da_flor_de_lotus.html.

I would like to publish our talks about the Lotus Sutra in the Blog Cristal Perfeito, along with a picture where I write the dedication to the Archbishop Correia. To do this, I ask your express consent. If there is any inconvenience, it is not necessary to justify for me. Just say "better not".

Thank you for everything, waiting for your next visit to Belo Horizonte.

Arigatougozaimashita!

Marcos Ubirajara.

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A Metaphor of the Treasure Tower

Then, I said:
"I am very satisfied to have initiated this work with you. Henceforth, we shall meet forever. We will always be together, with single mind. What can this mean? It's like a big building. Am not 'I' to think, but all of 'us'. This big building, one can say, emerges from the Great Void and, in the future, it may even suffer some small cracks or minor material losses. But, will be too solid to crumble."

Scenario:
I found myself sitting in a central place, like a round table. People sat in a circle, to whom I lectured. The content of the lecture was based on a precious book and, while lectured, was thinking about what would follow. Among these people were recent friends, but also people who long ago I do not see as, for example, a friend of university for whom I was not looking directly, by being on my back, but I knew she was there.

After the lecture, we headed to a table where many meals were served. We talked of the expectations of our work. Again I said: "I am very satisfied."

I woke up on 12/06/2011, at 03:30 am. It was just a dream from which I awoke with an indescribable feeling of well-being, a full satisfaction. I got up and began to write the little that still remembered. Dream? We were all there. I ask them: where?

Marcos Ubirajara.
On 12/06/2011.

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Response to William Garcia

William wrote: "I received some time ago the Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Dharma, and I took much time to deliver to Firmina because did not want make it in circumstances where I was.

Due the resumption of forces that propelled me in the challenge of continuous karmic transformation, I stepped into the dark and dismal environment of a police station, and handed the precious gem."

The Buddha said:

“Good men,
After my extinction,
Who can receive and uphold,
Read, and recite this Sutra,
Now, in the presence of the Buddhas should make a vow.

This Sutra is hard to uphold,
If one upholds it for but an instant,
I will rejoice,
And so will all the Buddhas.

One such as this
Shall be praised by all the Buddhas:
‘This is courage!
This is vigor,
This is called morality
And the practice of the Dhutas’."

From original: The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra
(Translated by The Buddhist Text Translation Society in USA)

Dear William,
the efforts to fulfill the vows that we made in the past will never be in vain. I congratulate you for the feat.

Marcos Ubirajara.
On May 19, 2011.

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Response to Gislene Macedo

Gislene wrote:

"In the post - The Void as 'Not-Is' - Element – there is this part that worries me: "Oh good man! I never quarrel with the world. Why not? If the worldly knowledge says 'is', I say 'is'; if the worldly knowledge says 'not-is', I also say 'not-is'." It is there that twine myself because, how so this acceptance?"

The Sutra says the following:

Bodhisattva Kasyapa said to the Buddha: "Oh World Honored One! You, the Buddha, say that one says 'is' if the worldly knowledge says 'is', and if the worldly knowledge says 'not-is', one says 'not-is'. But what comes to be 'is' and 'not-is' of worldly knowledge?"

The Buddha said: "Oh good man! This is like when the world says: 'The matter is non-eternal, suffering, void, and non-Self', and things go thus down to consciousness. Oh good man! This is what the worldly knowledge says it's an 'is', and I, also, say it's an 'is'. Oh good man! The worldly knowledge says that matter has nothing of the Eternal, Bliss, the Self and the Pure. So it is said about feeling, perception, volition, and consciousness. Oh good man! This is where the worldly knowledge says 'not-is'. I, also, say 'not-is'."

Nirvana Sutra, Chapter 42 - On Bodhisattva Kasyapa 3.

The Buddha says: "It's like when ...", indicating that this is an example. So, I think that these words of the Buddha, above, refer to the aspect of ‘Zeal for the Wonderful Dharma’. There are other 9 (nine) selected issues regarding to ‘Do not Quarrel with the World’, and these are in the post: "Like the Utpala - The Blue Lotus”.

In the post "The Quality of Those Who Asks" one reads: "Also, there are two further types of people. One asks about what is difficult; and the other answers well. You're the kind of person who asks well about what is difficult; the Tathagata is one who answers well. Oh, good man! Through these questions well placed, there can be the turning of the Wheel of Dharma, the killing of the great tree of the 12 links of causation, the passage of people across the vast ocean of birth and death, the good fight against the King Marapapiyas, and the overthrow of victorious banner of Papiyas."

So Gislene, thanks for asking.

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