"The Buddha revealed that he had attained enlightenment countless kalpas in the past, which puzzled his listeners as greatly as if he had asserted that an old man of a hundred was the son of a man of twenty-five. And he also expounded the doctrine of three thousand realms in a single moment of life, explaining that the nine worlds have the potential for Buddhahood and that Buddhahood retains the nine worlds. Thus a single word of this Lotus Sutra is as precious as a wish-granting jewel, and a single phrase is the seed of all Buddhas."
From Gosho "The Selection of the Time" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Volume I, page 539)
From Gosho "The Selection of the Time" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Volume I, page 539)
