The Perfect Doctrine

The perfect doctrine explains the three truths of emptiness, provisional existence, and the middle as a perfectly integrated whole, each of the three containing all three within itself as perfectly wondrous. Teachings and truths from the ten realms are all involved as perfectly full, and in one thought all bodhisattva practices are perfectly accomplished being perfectly capable. It is also a perfect teaching for beginners because there is no distinct difference in practice between that of a new practitioner and a buddha. One’s awakening is perfectly sudden, there is perfect suppression of the five levels of attachment, one develops perfect faith in true reality, realizes perfect cutting off of all illusion, performs the perfect practice containing all virtues of all practices, reaches the perfect stage embracing all other stages, possesses perfect majestic freedom from karmic retribution in the midst of a causally conditioned world, and allows the buddhahood of all beings as the perfect salvation of all beings. This teaching explains the Buddha’s awareness in a way that bodhisattvas of the distinct teaching have never before heard or understood.

History and Teachings of Nichiren Buddhism, p 125