I have also received your news about the beheading of the Mongol envoys. How pitiful that they have beheaded the innocent Mongol envoys and yet failed to cut off the heads of the priests of the Nembutsu, Shingon, Zen and Ritsu sects, who are the real enemies of our country. — MWND: Moko Tsukai Gosho
Be interpreted through the Nirvana Sutra:
"The Buddha : One may well kill an ant and gain the sin of harming, but the killing of an Icchantika does not [constitute a sin]."
Who are these Icchantikas where killing them does not incur any karmic returns?
I wonder if this is the scriptural source Nichiren's seemingly "militaristic" stance towards the "enemies" of the Lotus Sutra comes from?The Buddha said : A monk, nun, male or female lay disciple may be one.
One who having rejected the scriptures with unpleasant speech and does not, subsequently, even ask for forgiveness has entered into the path of the Icchantika."