"ON OFFERING PRAYERS"

"I have offered prayers to the Gohonzon of Myoho-renge-kyo. Though this mandala has but five or seven characters, it is the teacher of all Buddhas throughout the three existences and the seal that guarantees the enlightenment of all women. It will be a lamp in the darkness of the road to the next world and a fine horse to carry you over the mountains of death. It is like the sun and moon in the heavens or Mount Sumeru on earth. It is a ship to ferry people over the sea of the sufferings of birth and death. It is the teacher ho leads all people to Buddhahood and enlightenment."

"The prescription of medicine differs according to the illness."

"A woman who takes this efficacious medicine will be surrounded and protected by these four great bodhisattva at all times. When she rises to her feet, so too will the bodhisattvas, and when she walks along the road, they will also do the same. She and they will be as inseparable as a body and its shadow, as fish and water, a a voice and its echo or as the moon and its light."

"How reassuring, how encouraging!"

Nam-myoho-renge-kyo

Nichiren Daishonin