Friday, 1st December 2023 Day by Day & Month after Month, Friday, 1st December Daily Gosho and Saturday, 2nd December Daily Encouragement

A translation of the new series replacing "To My Friends,"... "Day by Day & Month After Month" based on Ikeda Sensei's guidances, and more.

Friday, December 1st, 2023

-- DAY BY DAY

   MONTH AFTER MONTH --

The purpose of this faith

is to create wise, sensible people.

Let's be careful

to avoid carelessness

and simply going through the motions.

By being thorough and wise,

let's make victorious progress

with absolutely no accidents.

Friday, December 1st, 2023

--- DAILY GOSHO ---

What a joy it is for us to have been born in the Latter Day of the Law and to have shared in the propagation of the Lotus Sutra! How pitiful are those who, though born in this time, cannot believe in this sutra!

Letter to Niike 

- WND-1, page 1026

Selection Source: Kyō no Hosshin

Seikyo Newspaper 

- Friday, December 1st, 2023

Saturday, December 2nd, 2023

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----

"The original Sanskrit word for nam in Nam-myoho-renge-kyo was translated into Chinese as 'dedicate one's life' (Jpn kimyo), meaning to dedicate one's life to the Buddha and his teachings. That is, to believe and practice with one's whole heart and being.

"In every society and culture, human beings have always believed in something, whether a philosophy or a religion, science or an ideology. The crux is whether those things genuinely answer the questions of life and death. But Nichiren Buddhism, which we might call the Lotus Sutra of the Latter Day of the Law, offers a clear way to resolve those fundamental issues."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, Key Passages from The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, [1] Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, Hold High the Banner of Respect for the Dignity of Life! Dedicating One's Life to and Basing One's Life on the Mystic Law, Daibyakurenge, November 2022, translation released October 2023.  

-- TSUKIZUKI HIBI NI--

SHINJIN WA SŌMEINA KENJA O TSUKURU TAME NI ARU.

DŌKA, YUDAN YA DASEI O HAISHITE,

TESSHITE KASHIKOKU, ZETTAI MUJIKO NO SHŌRI NO ZENSHIN O.

The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
https://www.seikyoonline.com/article/0487ACED111075C6F1C2C207FAD91C1C

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---

URESHIKI KANA, MAPPŌ RUFU NI UMARE AERU WARERA. KANASHIKI KANA, KONDO KONO KYŌ O SHINZEZARU HITOBITO.

New Gosho Zenshu page 2062, 

Gosho Zenshu page 1439

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