The Izu Exile

Daily Wisdom

From the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
Sunday, August 12, 2012:

What caused you to inwardly believe in the Lotus Sutra and to make offerings to me during my more than thirty-day stay there? I was hated and resented by the steward and the people of the district even more than I was in Kamakura. Those who saw me scowled, while those who merely heard my name were filled with spite. And yet, though I was there in the fifth month when rice was scarce, you secretly fed me. Have my parents been reborn in a place called Kawana, in Ito of Izu Province?

The Izu Exile
Written to Funamori Yasaburo on June 27, 1261