The most beautiful and brightest star is the moon. What is brighter than stars and the moon is the sun. A man without a cabinet post in a large country ranks higher than a minister of a small country. Likewise, it is as clear as heaven is different from earth that a practicer of Hinayāna Buddhism who has not attained enlightenment or even one superhuman power is superior to a man who practices non-Buddhist religion in India attaining five supernatural powers. Even a great bodhisattva who practices sūtras other than the Lotus is inferior to an ordinary person who is in the beginner’s stage of Notional Understanding in practicing the Lotus Sūtra and is moved upon hearing just its title. You must be surprised to hear this. We must decide the superiority of a man through the sūtra he practices. How can we discuss the superiority of a man without knowing the superiority of the sūtra he practices?

Shingon Shoshū Imoku, Differences between the Lotus Sect and Other Sects Such as the True Word Sect, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Doctrine 2, Page 124