The One Essential Phrase

Daily Wisdom

From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Monday, July 2, 2012:

The sutra teaches that women, evil men, and those in the realms of animals and Hell—in fact, all the beings of the Ten Worlds—can attain Buddhahood in their present form. [This is an incomparably greater wonder than] fire being produced by a stone taken from the bottom of a river, or a lantern lighting up a place that has been dark for a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand years. If even the most ordinary things of this world are such wonders, then how much more wondrous is the power of the Buddhist Law!

The One Essential Phrase
Written to the lay nun Myoho on July 3, 1278