Grand Master T’ien-t’ai interprets in his Mo-ho chih-kuan (Great Concentration and Insight): “Those without faith in the Lotus Sūtra consider it to be only for sages and to be too difficult for ignorant people like themselves. Those without wisdom become self-conceited considering themselves equal to the Buddha.”

Kaimoku-shō, Open Your Eyes to the Lotus Teaching, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Doctrine 2, Page 96