Day 14 covers all of Chapter 9, The Assurance of Future Buddhahood of the Śrāvakas Who Have Something More to Learn and the Śrāvakas Who Have Nothing More to Learn, and opens Chapter 10, The Teacher of the Dharma.

Last month explained that among the four characteristics of those who keep, read, recite, expound and copy even a phrase of the Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma is that they gave up their own benefits to benefit others.

Each day as I recite the Invocation, I say the following lines:

Honor be to our Founder,
The Great Bodhisattva Nichiren Shonin,
Dispatched by Our Original Buddha.

And today I recited these complementary lines from the Lotus Sutra:

Offer flowers and incense of heaven,
Jeweled garments of heaven,
And heaps of wonderful treasures of heaven
To the expounder of the Dharma!

Join your hands together and bow
To the person who keeps this sutra
In the evil world after my extinction,
Just as you do to me!

Offer delicious food and drink,
And various garments to this son of mine,
And yearn to hear the Dharma [from him]
Even if for only a moment!

Anyone who keeps this sutra in the future
Should be considered
To have been dispatched by me
To the world of men in order to do my work.