32. capability for practicing
Capabilities of people in this Mappo period are much lower than those of people during the Buddha’s lifetime and the Sho-Zobo period. In other words, people in the Mappo period don’t have any capabilities for ascetic practices such as meditating and fasting. In this Mappo period, eradicating sins in the past life resulting in attaining Buddhahood can be achieved only by chanting and spreading the Odaimoku.
この末法時代に生きる人々の機根（仏道修行を行じる能力）は、仏さまご在世の時代や正・像法時代の人々の機根と比べ遥かに劣っています。すなわち、末法時代の人々には瞑想や断食といった苦行を行じるだけの機根が備わっていません。この末法時代においては、御題目の口唱と御弘通に励む事によってのみ、過去世からの罪障消滅と成仏が適うのです。
*1. capability for practicing: 機根・仏道修行を行じる能力
*2. Buddha’s lifetime: 仏さまご在世の時代
*3. ascetic practice: 苦行
*4. fasting: 断食
