It seems to me that on the path to attain Buddhahood, it may invariably be when one has done something like lay down one’s life that one becomes a Buddha. I think that perhaps it is encountering such difficulties as have already been explained in the sutra – being cursed, vilified, attacked with swords and staves, shards and rubbles, and banished again and again – that is reading the Lotus Sutra with one’s life. My faith springs up all the more, and I am confident about my next existence.
Banishment to Sado (WND, 202)
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