Besides, he mentions that the essential point of the sutras is doing us wrong, although we practiced shobo in the past, but now if we believe and practice the shobo again, the kudoku (merit) gained by practicing shobo in this world is so strong that we will deserve only a small amount of trouble without inviting larger troubles in the future, even if we should fall into great hell in the future due to sins we committed to hurt others in the past' (in "Kyodaisho" (Nichiren's teachings given to Ikegami brothers in 1275).
「文の心は我等過去に正法を行じける者に・あだをなして・ありけるが今かへりて信受すれば過去に人を障（ささえ）る罪にて未来に大地獄に堕つべきが、今生に正法を行ずる功徳・強盛なれば未来の大苦を招き越して少苦に値（あ）うなり」（兄弟抄）