Unless we wage a great struggle for the happiness of all people with the same dedication as the mentor — just as the Buddha and the Bodhisattvas of the Earth have struggled together as one since the distant past — we cannot call ourselves the lion’s cubs​

From the perspective of those who are the Buddha’s disciples, people who just revere the Buddha from afar as mere bystanders do not qualify as genuine disciples.​

Unless we wage a great struggle for the happiness of all people with the same dedication as the mentor — just as the Buddha and the Bodhisattvas of the Earth have struggled together as one since the distant past — we cannot call ourselves the lion’s cubs. Worse, if we are lion cubs whose actions incur the ridicule of “foxes,” then we do not qualify as successors of the lion king.​

We only carry on the legacy of the Lotus Sutra, the scripture of the oneness of mentor and disciple, when we firmly make the heart of a lion king our own and struggle as one with the mentor!

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Your words will forever cherish his memory.”​