If that is the case, I thought I should learn things about rinju before other things, and when I collected, thought about, and used as a mirror the interpretations of Buddhist scriptures by those who studied and wrote about Buddha's entire teachings and by those who studied Buddha's such teachings and taught them to develop the personalities of others, comparison of the condition at the time people died, on the one hand, with the condition after that, on the other, gave no doubt of their correctness. (Myoho ama gozen gohenji [(Reply to the Nun Myoho])
「されば先（まず）臨終の事を習うて後に他事を習うべしと思いて、一代聖教の論師・人師の書釈あらあら考え集めて此れを明鏡として、一切の諸人の死するときと並に臨終の後とに引き向えてみ候へば少しもくもりなし。」（妙法尼御前御返事）