The Four Debts of Gratitude

Daily Wisdom

From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Monday, November 26, 2012:

 

Even if we should gather all the water of the four great oceans to wet inkstones, burn all the trees and plants to cinders to make ink, collect the hairs of all beasts for writing brushes, employ all the surfaces of the worlds in the ten directions for paper, and, with these, set down expressions of gratitude, how could we possibly repay our debt to the Buddha?


Written to Kudo Sakon-no-jo Yoshitaka on January 16, 1262