If something like what is being talked about in the town were to actually happen, it would make me a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred million times happier than having my proposals accepted. Should I be exiled again it would be for the third time, and the Lotus Sūtra could not possibly consider me, Nichiren, an indolent practicer. As a result, I would be blessed by the favors of Śākyamuni Buddha, the Buddha of Many Treasures, Buddhas in manifestation throughout the universe, and by the numerous bodhisattva disciples of the Original Buddha that emerged from the earth. I am certain of all this and I am looking forward to the experience. I wish to follow the example of Young Ascetic in the Snow Mountains who sacrificed his own body for the Buddhist Dharma, and I wish to sacrifice myself for Bodhisattva Never-Despising, who endured persecution with swords, sticks, pieces of tile and stones. It would be regrettable otherwise to live a useless life and die of an epidemic or old age.

Dannotsu Bō Gohenji, Response to a Follower, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Faith and Practice, Volume 4, Page 130-131