Letter to Shimoyama（2nd of 10th paragraph）
—————————-～（ continued from the previous section)～————————-
But in the time of the succeeding ruler I was wounded, my disciples were killed, I was hounded from place to place, my dwelling was attacked, and not for a day or a mere hour was I able to find peace on this earth.
In this connection I recall that the Buddha has said, “It [the Lotus Sutra] will face much hostility in the world and be difficult to believe.”58 And the various bodhisattvas took a vow, saying, “We care nothing for our bodies or lives but are anxious only for the unsurpassed way.”59 If, as suggested by the passage that reads, “There is someone who . . . attacks him with swords and staves, tiles and stones,”60 or that that says, “Again and again we will be banished,”61 one is condemned to exile or set upon with swords, I realized that this is one’s way of reading the entire text of the Lotus Sutra. And like Bodhisattva Never Disparaging, the monk Realization of Virtue, Bodhisattva Nāgārjuna, Bodhisattva Āryadeva, or Buddhamitra and the Venerable Āryasimha, I spoke out even more strongly in support of the Lotus Sutra.
———————————-～(to be continued to the next section)～————————