Chapter 20 shows the actual practice of the truth—that is, it provides a model for bodhisattva practice. It is about bodhisattva Never Disrespectful, who endures all sorts of persecution during a time when the Dharma is in decline. Believing that all people will become buddhas through bodhisattva practice, he persists in never putting down or disrespecting anyone. Whenever he meets someone, he always calls out something like “Good people, I do not slight or make light of you. I can’t slight or make light of you. Why? All of you walk in the bodhisattva way and should become all-wise, perfectly enlightened, worthy buddhas.” He was beaten with sticks, stoned and driven away, but responded with “I would not dare to disrespect you. Surely all of you are to become buddhas.” In this way he single-mindedly practiced respect for others.

Bodhisattva practice is an expression of love for all of humanity equally, rooted in infinite trust of human beings. Nichiren took the practice of never disrespecting and always revering others as a matter of positive and aggressive propagation of the Dharma.