To read the Daishonin’s writings with one’s life means to read them not as something that concerns others or as an account of something that happened long ago but as something that directly relates to us and the present, and to apply it to the challenges we face in our own lives. This is the correct path for manifesting the solemn spirit of the oneness of mentor and disciple.

From The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, part 2, revised edition, p. 316