"To give another analogy, plants and trees are withered and bare in autumn and winter, but when the sun of spring and summer shines on them, they put forth branches and leaves, and then flowers and fruit. Before the preaching of the Lotus Sutra, the people in the nine worlds were like plants and trees in autumn and winter. But when the single character myo of the Lotus Sutra shone on them like the spring and summer sun, then the flower of the aspiration for enlightenment blossomed, and the fruit of Buddhahood or rebirth in the pure land emerged."
From Gosho "The Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 146)
From Gosho "The Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 146)
