"With regard to the debt of gratitude owed to our parents, our father may be likened to heaven and our mother to the earth, and it would be difficult to say to which parent we are the more indebted. But it is particularly difficult to repay the great kindness of our mother. [...] Since I have realized that only the Lotus Sutra teaches the attainment of Buddhahood by women, and that only the Lotus is the sutra of true requital for repaying the kindness of our mother, in order to repay my debt to my mother, I have vowed to enable all women to chant the daimoku of this sutra."
From Gosho "The Sutra of True Requital" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Volume I, pages 930-931)
From Gosho "The Sutra of True Requital" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Volume I, pages 930-931)
