Buddha state
This reservoir is known as the Buddha state, or Buddha wisdom, and the teachings of Buddhism exist so that we can reveal it in daily life. From this we can understand that the Buddha is an ordinary person. Buddhahood is not an unattainable life-condition, but a potential that is within all life and within each of us, right here, right now.
The person who established the way for anyone to become a Buddha in this day and age was Nichiren Daishonin, who lived in the thirteenth century in Japan. This is what he says: ‘If you wish to free yourself from the sufferings of birth and death you have endured since time without beginning and to attain without fail unsurpassed enlightenment in this lifetime, you must perceive the mystic truth that is originally inherent in all living beings. This truth is Myoho-renge-kyo. Chanting Myoho-renge-kyo will therefore enable you to grasp the mystic truth innate in all life.’ (1)
So what has been called a ‘reservoir’, Nichiren Daishonin refers to as ‘the mystic truth’. It is ‘mystic’ because it is not apparent to our ordinary conscious minds. It is the ‘truth’ that is at the heart of all Buddhist teachings. All life, all phenomena, are endowed with Buddhahood; the greatest potential of life.
A Buddha is an ordinary human being alive in this world who realises that the reservoir is there, draws on it at will, and encourages others to do the same. Nichiren Daishonin said that all the teachings of Buddhism pointed to this fact: we all have this potential and the way to experience it is to chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
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