"The blind cannot see the characters of this sutra. To the eyes of ordinary people, they look like characters. Persons of the two vehicles perceive them as the void. Bodhisattvas look on them as innumerable doctrines. Buddhas recognize each character as a golden Shakyamuni. This is what is meant by the passage that says, “[If one can uphold this sutra], one will be upholding the Buddha’s body.”"
From Gosho "Reply to the Lay Priest Soya" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Volume I, page 486)
From Gosho "Reply to the Lay Priest Soya" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Volume I, page 486)
