Accordingly, your offerings of two and three strings of coins are far greater even than those made by one who, ruling over the country of Japan, offers the entire nation and a pagoda he has constructed that is adorned with the seven kinds of treasures and that towers as high as the Trayastrimsha heaven. A single character of the Lotus Sutra is like the great earth, which gives rise to all things. A single character is like the great ocean, which contains the water from all rivers. A single character is like the sun and moon, which illuminate the four quarters. This single character changes and becomes the moon.
Rice plants change and become seedlings.
Seedlings change and become stalks. Stalks change and become rice. Rice changes and becomes a person. And a person changes and becomes a Buddha. A woman changes and becomes the single character myo.