Our founder Nichiren Daishonin taught us in "Attaining Enlightenment through the Initial Stage of Faith through the Lotus Sutra" (“Hokke shoshin jōbutsu-shō”),
As the Daishonin teaches, when a common mortal sits before the Gohonzon and chants Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo with deep faith, he will fuse his life with the True Buddha, and awaken his inherent Buddha-nature. This is attaining enlightenment in our present form (sokushin jobutsu).Once we chant Myoho-Renge-Kyo, this sound calls forth and manifests the Buddha-nature of all Buddhas, all phenomena, all bodhisattvas, all people in the world of learning, all guardian deities, such as Bonten, Taishaku, King Emma, the sun and moon, innumerable stars, deities of the heavens and earth, and all living beings—including individuals in the worlds of hell, hunger, animality, anger, humanity, and rapture. The benefit of revealing this Buddha-nature is immeasurable and unfathomable.
(Gosho, p. 1320)
2021 is the 800th anniversary of the advent of our founder Nichiren Daishonin. Let's repay our debts of gratitude to the True Buddha by deepening our faith, strengthening our practice, and propagating the Daishonin's Buddhism of the Sowing. We must keep in mind the Daishonin's goal of Rissho Ankoku or "securing the peace of the land through the propagation of True Buddhism."