The Danger of Misunderstanding in Buddhism

The white lotus sutra introduces what I've called its vegetable symbolism in other words at this point or from this point it replaces the symbol of the path by another symbol. The plant itself is the process of growth and of development so here there's no possibility of any such misunderstanding instead of thinking of ourselves as traversing a path we now think of ourselves as plants as living and as growing things. This parable follows immediately after the previous one and the Buddha himself is still speaking i'm going to read from Kern's translation from the Sanskrit text mazurci  it's a very short passage indeed the Buddha says and further kash shapar the tatagata that is