WHAT is called faith is nothing unusual. Faith means putting one’s trust in the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni, Many Treasures, the Buddhas and bodhisattvas of the ten directions, and the heavenly gods and benevolent deities, and chanting Namu-myoho-renge-kyo as a woman cherishes her husband, as a man lays down his life for his wife, as parents refuse to abandon their children, or as a child refuses to leave its mother.
Not only that, but one should ponder the sutra passages “Honestly discarding expedient means”and “Not accepting a single verse of the other sutras” without the slightest thought of casting them away, as a woman refuses to part with her mirror, or as a man wears his sword.
Respectfully,
Nichiren
The eighteenth day of the fifth month
Reply to the lay nun Myoichi
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