"The Sovereign Kings Sutra states, “Because evil people are respected and favored and good people are subjected to punishment, the stars and constellations, along with the winds and rains, all fail to move in their proper seasons.”
Now who is meant by “evil people [who] are respected and favored” ? It is men such as I spoke of earlier. And who is meant by “good people [who] are subjected to punishment” ? It is the one whom I mentioned above, who has “again and again been banished.” And the passage on the “stars and constellations” refers to the strange and portentous occurrences that have taken place in the skies and on the earth during the past twenty years or so." -- Reply to Hakiri Saburo
Who is it that is respected and favored with more than three hundred honors and awards and who are those who continuously without respite encounter the Three Obstacles and Four Devils? Who are the good people subjected to punishment, day after day and month after month? Who has been banished again and again all over the virtual and real world [besides Nichiren Daishonin] because of our faith and forceful practice?
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