This spot among the mountains is secluded from the worldly life, and there is no human habitation
in the neighbourhood-east, west, north, or south. I am now living in such a lonely hermitage; but
in my bosom, in Nichiren's fleshly body, is secretly deposited the great mystery which the Lord
Shakyamuni revealed on Vulture Peak, and has entrusted to me. Therefore I know that my breast
is the place where all Buddhas are immersed in contemplation; that they turn the Wheel of Truth
upon my tongue; that my throat is giving birth to them; and that they are attaining the Supreme
Enlightenment in my mouth. This place is the abode of such a man, who is mysteriously realizing
the Lotus of Truth in his life; surely such a place is no less dignified than the Paradise of Vulture
Peak. As the Truth is noble, so is the man who embodies it; as the man is noble, so is the place
where he resides. We read in the chapter on the 'Mysterious Power of the Tathagata' as follows:
'Be it a forest, or at the foot of a tree, or in a monastery..... on that spot erect a stupa dedicated to the
Tathagata. For such a spot is to be regarded as the place where all Tathagatas have arrived at the
Supreme Perfect Enlightenment; on that spot all Tathagatas have turned the Wheel of Truth, on that
spot all Tathagatas have entered the Great Decease.' Lo, whoever comes to this place will be purged
of all sins and depravities which he has accumulated from eternity, and all his evil deeds will at once
be transformed into merits and virtues.
