"All phenomena have their respective names, and the name in each case indicates the particular virtue or property inherent in that thing. For example, the person known as General Stone Tiger was so called because he was capable of penetrating a stone tiger with an arrow. And the minister Target Piercing was given that name because he could shoot an arrow through a target made of iron. In both cases, the name indicates the qualities of the person. In the case of the Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Law, the virtues and benefits of its eight volumes and twenty-eight chapters are all contained within the five characters that make up its title; it is like, for instance, the wish-granting jewel that contains ten thousand different jewels within it. This is what is meant by the doctrine that the three thousand realms are all contained within a single particle of dust."
From Gosho "White Horses and White Swans" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Volume I, pages 1061-1062)
From Gosho "White Horses and White Swans" (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Volume I, pages 1061-1062)
