Sacrifice One’s Life
Royal Persecution

It has already been more than twenty years since I began speaking for this sutra. My troubles have been increasing day by day, month by month, and year by year. Small troubles are incalculable while severe ones are four in number. Not talking about two of them, I have already been twice the target of royal persecution, and my life now is in jeopardy. Moreover, my senior disciples and laymen who had just come to hear me speak were punished severely as though they had been rebels.

It is said in the Lotus Sutra, fascicle four: “This sutra was the target of much hatred and jealousy even during the lifetime of the Buddha, needless to speak of after His death.”

Kaimoku Sho
Open Your Eyes to the Lotus Sutra
(Background: February 1272, at Tsukahara, Sado, Showa Teihon, p.557)

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