A single wish granting jewel can cause as many treasures to rain down as two such jewels or, even more, as would innumerable jewels. Likewise, each character in the Lotus Sutra is like a jewel, and since it stands for innumerable others, it is like an uncountable number of jewels.
Letter to Nichimyo Shonin.
Miao-lo said, "Wise men can percieve the cause of things, as snakes know the way of snakes." The present epidemics are like the virulent boils of King Ajatashatru that could not be cured by anyone but the Buddha. They can only be eliminated by the Lotus Sutra.
The two kinds of Illness (WND, 920).
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