Thus when we read the above passage from the Lotus Sutra, we know that all persons who hear of the sutra will, without a single exception, attain Buddhahood. All the various beings in the nine worlds and the six paths differ from one another in their minds. Their minds differ, and therefore their faces differ, too. People have various tastes. Some prefer good and some prefer evil.
People are of many kinds.
But though they differ from one another in such ways as these when they enter into the Lotus Sutra, they all become like a single person in body and a single person in mind. Thus Devadatta, who had committed three of the five cardinal sins, and Rahula, who observed all of the two hundred and fifty precepts, both alike became Buddhas. And both King Myoshogon, who held erroneous views, and Sariputra, who held correct views, equally received predictions that they would-attain Buddhahood. In the Amida and other sutras expounded during the first forty and more years of the Buddha's preaching life, Sariputra is said to have achieved great merit by reciting the name of Amida Buddha a million times in the space of seven days. Nor should one lament that he has committed acts of great evil.