The Only Sin that Refuses To Disappear

Even if women committed the sky-full of ten evil acts such as greed, jealousy and anger, and five rebellious sins, if they upheld this Lotus Sūtra without committing the sin of slandering the True Dharma, their sins will all disappear at once just as dew on plants all evaporate when blown by strong winds. They are like the thick ice born in the three months of cold winter that thaw in no time under the sunshine of mid-summer. The only sin that refuses to disappear is the sin of slandering the Lotus Sūtra. It is like Mt. Sumeru that cannot be burnt, even partially, by all the plants in the whole universe as firewood; or the ocean that cannot be dried up even if seven suns should appear at the same time and blaze on it for hundreds and thousands of days.

Zemmui-shō, Treatise on Śubhākarasiṃha, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Faith and Practice, Volume 4, Page 55-56