Originally posted by bohiruci:
I was thinking of the teaching on the various flowers Buddha Sakyamuni Buddha mentioned on the different faculties of sentient beings ,anyone wish to input on the teachings
and how we apply in our daily life
Hi bohiruci
I refer to faculties as the roots of sentient beings.
It is indeed said in the Lotus Sutra that only a Buddha can completely fanthom the roots, needs and greeds of a sentient being. And from here, he may prescribe the proper Dhamma for his salvation.
It brings to mind the analogy of Buddhism as a medical system. Whereby Buddha is the specialist doctor, dhamma as the medicine and sangha as the assist. doctors or nurses.
The Gohonzon as a medicine enjoys no higher, nor lower status than other methods of Buddhism e.g. chanting buddha name, meditation, vinaya practice. The same goes for the Lotus Sutra. It shouldn't be known as the King of Sutras, but rather the central teaching in some schools of Buddhism.
There is also a reason why medicines are called drugs in Western medicine
