悦しきかなや・楽かなや不肖の身として今度心田に仏種をうえたる - how fortunate, how joyous, to think that with this unworthy body I have received in my heart the seeds of Buddhahood!




本文
 
一閻浮提第一の大事を申す ゆへに最第一の瑞相 此れ をこれり、あわれなるかなや・なげかしきかなや 日本国の人 皆 無間大城に堕ちむ事よ、悦しきかなや・楽かなや 不肖の身として 今度 心田に仏種をうえたる
 
撰時抄(286頁) 建治元年4月
通解(意訳)
 
一閻浮提(全世界)で第一の仏法である、法華経の肝心(大事)・南無妙法蓮華経の題目
を日蓮が申したので、経文通り、様々な難に遭い、日本中の人々が日蓮や我が門下一同を責め立てた。そして今、やはり経文通りに、広宣流布の第一のきっかけとなる出来事が、日本におきたのである。
なんと哀れで、なんと嘆かわしいことであろう。日蓮と門下を責めた人々は皆、無間地獄の大城に堕ちることであろう。
そしてなんと悦ばしく、なんと楽しいことであろう。我ら日蓮と門下一同は、凡夫の身でありながら、今生で心の田畑に仏種を植えたのである。
 
 
English Translations


" The Selection of the Time "

 
 Because I speak concerning the most important matter in the entire land of Jambudvīpa, my words are accompanied by portents of the first magnitude.
 How tragic, how pitiful, that all the people of Japan should fall into the great citadel of the hell of incessant suffering! But how fortunate, how joyous, to think that with this unworthy body I have received in my heart the seeds of Buddhahood!
 
"The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin", Vol.1, p 578
[ --- ] is liberal translation

Interpretation (liberal translation)
 
 Nichiren explained essential "Nam-myoho-renge-kyo" of the Lotus Sutra which is the first Buddhism in Jambudvīpa [ the All of the world ], so Nichiren and pupils met various hardships so that it might be written on a sutra, and people all Japan persecuted us.
 The result is as it is written on a sutra likewise, an invasion from an other country and the case that a rebellion has occurred to Japan will be also the punishment which persecuted an ascetic of a Lotus Sutra and be also the first trigger of propagation prevalence.
 What deplorable thing is it? All people who persecuted Nichiren and pupils will be to fall in a castle of the abyss. 
 And what good thing is it? We, Nichiren and pupils planted the kind of spiritual enlightenment of Buddhahood in the fields at the heart by a this life though they were mediocre person's body.





参考文献:「御書をひもとく」「英語で学ぶ御書」 第三文明社
Bibliography : "The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin"
"The Record of The Orally Transmitted Teachings"



御書をひもとく
英語で学ぶ御書
The Writings of NICHIREN DAISHONIN Vol.1
The Writings of NICHIREN DAISHONIN Vol.2



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