Wednesday, January 31st, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"A sword is useless in the hands of a coward. The mighty sword of the Lotus Sutra must be wielded by one courageous in faith. Then one will be as strong as a demon armed with an iron staff."
Reply to Kyō'ō
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin,
Thursday, February 1st, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"In September 1958, five months after Mr. Toda's death, a Soka Gakkai youth division sports meet was held. Uniting under the motto 'A Bold Advance for Kosen-rufu,' 70,000 eager youth assembled from throughout Japan at the National Stadium in Tokyo.
"It was an exuberant celebration that demolished society's speculations of the Soka Gakkai's imminent demise following the loss of its president. On that day (September 23rd), I wrote in my diary: 'Power, strength, energy for the future. So long as we have these youth, I thought. Felt profound joy and resolve arise within me.'*
"It was also on September 8th six decades later (in 2018) that I completed my serialized novel The New Human Revolution.
"In its afterword, I wrote that it was my sincere hope that Soka Gakkai members would stand up as Shin'ichi Yamamotos to 'create their own brilliant history of human revolution.' I also said: 'As long as suffering and misery exist anywhere on our planet, we must continue to weave with rich colour and bold creativity the magnificent tapestry of human victory that is kosen-rufu.'"
Ascending a New Summit of Kosen-rufu Together, A Bold Advance for Lasting Peace, from 8th September, 2023 issue of the Seikyo Newspaper, translation released December 2023.
*Daisaku Ikeda, A Youthful Diary: One Man's Journey from the Beginning of Faith to Worldwide Leadership for Peace (Santa Monica, California: World Tribune Press, 2000), p. 420
TSURUGI NANDOMO SUSUMAZARU HITO NO TAME NIWA MOCHIIRU KOTO NASHI HOKEKYO NO TSURUGI WA SHINJIN NO KENAGE NARU HITO KOSO MOCHIIRU KOTO NARE ONI NI KANABO TARUBESHI
New Gosho Zenshu page 1633,
Gosho Zenshu page 1124
And the Japanese kanji for
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