"I alone can save them"

Letter of Petition from Yorimoto

"The Lotus Sutra states, "Now this threefold world is all my

domain. The living beings in it are all my children." If this

scriptural statement is correct, then Lord Shakyamuni is the

father and mother, teacher and sovereign of all the people in

Japan. However, you ignore the Buddha of the three virtues and

invoke the name of another Buddha [Amida] day and night, morning

and evening, sixty or eighty thousand times a day. Is this not

a unfilial deed? It was Shakyamuni Buddha himself who originally

taught that Amida had vowed to save all people; but in the end

he regretted it and said, "I alone can save them." After that,

he never again taught that there were two or three Buddhas who

can save the people. No one has two fathers or two mothers."