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The True Religion for Our Time - page 5
The Law came First
Buddha came Later
All living things live according to the laws of Nature. But since human beings are the only life form that gets lost by resisting Nature, the existence of Buddha is indispensable to the human world. There is no need to preach the correct way to live to animals and plants. If God had created the law, it means he would have lived in a void as the sole, superhuman entity before the human world began. There is a legend in Japan that the Japanese islands were created by drops from the hands of two gods, Izanagi-no-mikoto and Isanami-no-mikoto, when they scooped up some water from the ocean. It seems that God in any country created everything. The question is, who created the Gods?
In the early years of human existence people killed and robbed each other and lived like animals according to their basic urges. Buddha came along and preached that living in this way was not the purpose of human life, human life bore much greater importance. The Law transmitted by the Buddha revealed the importance of life as being to support each other's life, rather than to kill each other. The true purpose in being born as a human being is to believe in and chant the Law of Namu-myoho-renge-kyo. This is what Buddha transmitted, and this was his will. The ultimate purpose of the Buddha's advent was to bring about the "Enlightenment of all living things." This enlightenment is not realized at death. It is an enlightenment achieved during our lifetime by exerting ourselves to reach an awakening to the Buddha's life of Myohorengekyo within our hearts.
Summary
1. A charismatic who pretends to be a living god or bodhisattva is not necessary in this world.
2. A teaching based on a charismatic personality does not save "all living things."
3. The objective in life is not to become a person of moral character and ethics by removing the evil and delusion from one's mind and thereby achieve an absolute, pure mind.
4. Enlightenment can be attained by living according to the Law of Myohorengekyo without eliminating evil and delusion from one's mind.
5. Intrinsically, since the beginningless past, all living things are equal and possess the Buddha's life.
6. There is no salvation in a religion where an individual can, by believing in it, only be a follower, a disciple or a servant. The true teaching will result in salvation by becoming Buddha or God through belief.
7. The Buddha did not create the law, he transmitted it. The claim that God created the world is false!