Day 10 concludes Chapter 6, Assurance of Future Buddhahood, and opens Chapter 7, The Parable of a Magic City.

It’s not so much what’s said today about the future Buddhahood of the senior disciples that interests me as the promises of what is to come in the Lotus Sutra.

At the end of Chapter 6, The Assurance of Future Buddhahood, we get a teaser:

Now I will tell you
About my previous existence
And also about yours.
All of you, listen attentively!

And in the opening of Chapter 7, The Parable of the Magic City, we are reminded of why we should pay attention to this story of a long, long, long ago Buddha called Great-Universal-Wisdom-Excellence:

I remember the extinction of that Buddha
As vividly as if he had passed away just now,
By my unhindered wisdom; I also remember
The Sravakas and Bodhisattvas who lived [with him].

Bhiksus, know this!
My wisdom is pure, wonderful,
Free from asravas and from hindrance.
I know those who lived innumerable kalpas ago.

Today and yesterday; yesterday and today.