The Phrase of the day gold Vol 1 Saturday, November 22, the following passage is taken from the letters and treaties of Nichiren, or Gosho. Yet today, you, a woman born in this bad world from the time of the last days of the Act, you have suffered insults, blows and attacks of the ignorant and foolish barbarians who inhabit these Islands [of Japan], and you have all endured for propagating the Lotus Sutra. Certainly, from the top of the peak of the Eagle, the Buddha must find that there is between you and the nun [Mahaprajapati] a gap as large as between a cloud and mud. No one more than you deserves the name of Buddha whose view fills with joy all human beings live; Today, Myoho - ama Gozen, it is to you that this name belongs. Nichiren Shūha, response to Myoho Bikuni Gozen, 1281, (L & T - VI, 347-348) _ the Phrase of the day gold Vol 2 Saturday, November 22, the following passage is taken from letters and treaties of Nichiren, or Gosho. Today, too, it is not the allies [of a believer] but his most powerful enemies that contribute to its progress. The actions of the practitioner of the Sutra of the Lotus, 1276 (written, 777)
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