"The blessings gained by arousing even a single moment of faith in and understanding of the Lotus Sutra surpass those of practicing the five pramitas; and the benefit enjoyed by the fiftieth person who rejoices on hearing the Lotus Sutra is greater than that acquired by giving alms for eighty years. The doctrine of the immediate attainment of enlightenment far outshines the doctrines of other scriptures; and the pronouncements concerning the revelation of the Buddha’s original enlightenment and his immeasurable life span are never found in any other teachings. Thus it was that the eight-year-old dragon girl was able to come out of the vast sea and in an instant give proof of the power of this sutra, and Superior Practices, a bodhisattva of the essential teaching, emerged from beneath the great earth and thereby demonstrated the unfathomably long life span of the Buddha. This is the king of sutras, defying description in words, the wonderful Law that is beyond the mind’s power to comprehend"
From Gosho "Questions and Answers about Embracing the Lotus Sutra" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Volume I, pages 60-61)
From Gosho "Questions and Answers about Embracing the Lotus Sutra" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Volume I, pages 60-61)
