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「妙」とは死を表す。「法」とは生を表す。「妙法」で生死不二を表す。The words Mystic Law are composed of the characters myo and ho.
Myo, meaning mystic, or wonderful, symbolized death and ho, meaning law, symbolizes life. Together, as the Mystic Law, or myoho, they represent the "oneness of life and death,"
生も死も「生命」の変化の姿です。生と死は「二つ」のようであって、その奥底にある、ひとつの生命は不変であり、生と死を貫いて、永遠に続いている。
the two phases of our existence. Life and death may seem separate and independent of each other, but within that dynamic exists the identity of our life that is one and unchanging. It continues forever through alternating periods of life and death.
その「永遠なる生命」の根源のリズムが南無妙法蓮華経です。だから題目は、死後の生命をも救っていけるのです。
Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the fundamental rhythm of that eternal life. Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo has the power to help even those in the state of death.
引用：青春対話Ⅱ P250/Discussion on youth P389
私たちは妙法家族です。生も死も超えて、妙法という”生命の無線”で結ばれている。唱えた題目は必ず相手に通じるし、自分が願えば、再び家族になったり、友人になったりして、身近なところに生まれてくる。
We are a family of the Mystic Law. We are connected by the "wireless communication system" of the Mystic Law that transcends life and death. Our chanting always reaches our deceased lived ones. And, if they wish it, they can be reborn as family or friends or somewhere close by us.
それを確信して、遺族が堂々と幸福になり切っていくことです。その幸せの実証こそが、亡くなった人の成仏を雄弁に物語っているのです。
Their surviving family members should be confident of this and strive to lead the happiest and most fulfilled lives. Their happiness is, in fact, eloquent testimony to their departed loved one's attainment of Buddhahood.
「生死不二」「父子一体」なのだから、家族の「生」の側が幸せになれば、「死」の生命も幸せになっていく。また「死」の状態の生命が成仏していけば、「生」の私たちを守ってくれる。
Buddhism expounds the "oneness of life and death," and the oneness of parent and child. So if the living family members are happy, those who have died will move on course to happiness, too. Similarly, if the family members who have died attain Buddhahood, they will be able-as part of the protective forces of the universe with which they have merged- to protect their living family members.
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容姿端麗な兄とは正反対の、ずんぐりむっくりな私。
そんなちまっとした私を、ずっとかわいいと言い続けてくれた祖母。
誰と接しても、穏やかで、自然体だった祖母。
最近、私はみんなから祖母に似てきたと言われます。
～大好きな、大好きな祖母に捧ぐ～
