When the Buddha at the age of seventy-two preached the Sūtra of Infinite Meaning on Mt. Sacred Eagle in Magadha, India, He discredited all the sūtras, major as well as minor sūtras, expounded in the preceding forty years or so by declaring, “No truth has been revealed for some forty years.” Upon hearing it, great bodhisattvas as well as gods and people were all shocked and wished to know the true teaching. Although a shred of truth seems to have been revealed in the Sūtra of Infinite Meaning, the truth itself was not yet revealed. It was as though the moon was about to appear over the mountains in the east; its rays shone through the mountains in the west, but nobody could see the moon yet.

Kaimoku-shō, Open Your Eyes to the Lotus Teaching, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Doctrine 2, Page 66