Putting aside the preciousness of the Lotus Sūtra for now, it is all the more difficult for us to meet a practicer of the Lotus Sūtra who preaches the sūtra as expounded in it than for a one-eyed turtle to find a piece of sandalwood tree floating on the sea or for anyone to lift Mt. Sumeru with a lotus root into the air.

Kyōdai-shō, A Letter to the Ikegami Brothers, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Volume 6, Followers I, Page 74