Thank you very much for the offerings in memory of your late husband.

Have you had any contact with your husband, the late Lord Ueno since he passed away? I know you have not heard from him in Hades, and you cannot see him unless you have a dream or an illusion. Your late husband in the Pure Land of Mt. Sacred Eagle must be looking at you day and night, but you and your children, who have only human eyes, cannot see him. Nevertheless, you must believe that you will meet him someday in the Pure Land of Mt. Sacred Eagle. During your numerous lives in the past, you have married so many times. However, your latest marriage is the most valuable because due to the advice of your late husband, you became a practicer of the Lotus Sūtra. You must worship him as a Buddha. When your husband was alive, he was in a state of Buddhahood. Now he is dead, and he is still in a state of Buddhahood. A person able to uphold the Lotus Sūtra is a Buddha, whether he is dead or alive. This is the “attainment of Buddhahood immediately with the present body,” which is one of the most important teachings of the Buddha. The Buddha says in the Lotus Sūtra, chapter 11: “If anyone can uphold this teaching, then he upholds the Buddha’s body.”

Ueno-dono Goke-ama Go-henji, A Response to the Nun, Widow of Lord Ueno, Nyonin Gosho, Letters Addressed to Female Followers, Page 44-46