Happy Birthday Nichiren! How do we celebrate?

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bcol01
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Happy Birthday Nichiren! How do we celebrate?

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How do Nichiren Buddhists (maybe specifically Nichiren Shu) celebrate Nichiren's bday?
In his writing, Hokkemongu (Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra), The Great Master Nichiren said, “If the practitioners of the Lotus Sutra wholeheartedly devote their life to the Lotus Sutra and practice according to its golden words, it is certainly needless to say that not only in the next life, but also in this lifetime they will overcome severe difficulty, prolong their life, receive the great, good fortune of unsurpassed enlightenment, and accomplish the great vow of the widespread, propagation of True Buddhism.”
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Re: Happy Birthday Nichiren! How do we celebrate?

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Thank you for the reminder!

Remember, reflect, express gratitude, resolve to continue... practice for oneself and for others... Visit Tanjou-ji, if you can.

Not sure if this is a significant celebration. Births are not so important in Japan.
There is no suffering to be severed. Ignorance and klesas are indivisible from bodhi. There is no cause of suffering to be abandoned. Since extremes and the false are the Middle and genuine, there is no path to be practiced. Samsara is nirvana. No severance achieved. No suffering nor its cause. No path, no end. There is no transcendent realm; there is only the one true aspect. There is nothing separate from the true aspect.
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Re: Happy Birthday Nichiren! How do we celebrate?

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Visit Taisekiji for the commemorative general Tozan, chant to the Gohonzon enshrined in the 5 storey Pagoda! If I can't get there then chant extra Daimoku
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