"Shakyamuni Buddha is the father, sovereign, and teacher of all the other
Buddhas and all the gods, of the whole assembly of human and heavenly beings,
and of all living beings. How could the heavenly gods and benevolent deities
rejoice if the Buddha were killed? Today all the people of our country have
proved to be enemies of Shakyamuni Buddha, but more than laymen or laywomen, it
is the [business suited Soka Gakkai] priests with perverse wisdom and hearts who are the Buddha’s worst
enemies. There are two kinds of wisdom, correct and perverse. No matter how wise
a person may appear, if his assertions are warped you should not listen to him.
Nor should you follow priests merely because they are venerable or of high rank.
But if a person has the wisdom to know the true meaning of the Lotus Sutra, no
matter how lowly he may appear, pay respect to him and make offerings to him as
though he were a living Thus Come One. Thus it is written in the sutra. That
is why the Great Teacher Dengyo says that the men and women who believe in this
sutra, even if they lack knowledge or violate the precepts, should be seated
above priests who observe all two hundred and fifty precepts of the Hinayana
teachings, and never be seated in a humble position, and that this is all the
more true of the priests of this Mahayana sutra."
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