Ahem

 Someone wrote:

😎chill - no threat intended, just learning and realizing 🤓 didn’t know Elon was buddhist🤔 btw, dying doesn’t make you a martyr for the lotus sutra. as I recall, nichiren himself passed peacefully amongst dear friends. 😇 the martyr thing with violence and hatred is a christian parable. 😏

Tell that to the Atsuhara martyrs, Aryasimha, Nikkyo the Martyr and his two disciples, Nisshin the Potheaded monk, and the many thousands of Nichiren disciples murdered by the Tientai warrior monks.

Nichiren writes in the concluding paragraph of On Practicing the Buddha's Teachings:

"Life flashes by in but a moment. No matter how many terrible enemies we may encounter, banish all fears and never think of backsliding. Even if someone were to cut off our heads with a saw, impale us with lances, or shackle our feet and bore them through with a gimlet, as long as we are alive, we must keep chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. Then, if we chant until the very moment of death, Shakyamuni, Taho and all other Buddhas in the universe will come to us instantly, exactly as they promised during the ceremony at Eagle Peak. Taking our hands and bearing us upon their shoulders, they will carry us to Eagle Peak. The two saints, the two heavenly gods, and the Ten Goddesses will guard us, while all the Buddhist gods raise a canopy over our heads and unfurl banners on high. They will escort us under their protection to the Buddha land. How can such joy possibly be described! Namu-myoho-renge-kyo, Namu-myoho-renge-kyo.