Thursday, February 29th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"I am praying that, no matter how troubled the times may become, the Lotus Sutra and the ten demon daughters will protect all of you, praying as earnestly as though to produce fire from damp wood or to obtain water from parched ground."
(On Rebuking Slander of the Law
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin,
Friday, March 1st, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"I'd like to share with you an insight from the great French writer Victor Hugo (1802-85).*
"...When a difficulty arises, some immediately give up, saying it's too much for them. Hugo calls these people 'the weak,' and says that for them the future is 'impossible.'
"There are also those who hide from problems, trying to ignore or deny them. Hugo calls these people 'the timid,' and for them the future is 'unknown.' Ultimately, misfortune will await them.
"And then there are others who courageously grapple with reality, refusing to be defeated. These Hugo identifies as 'the thinkers' and 'the valiant,' and for them, he says, the future is 'ideal.' Theirs will be a bright and beautiful future.
"Three approaches to life and three different futures. Hugo's observation shares much in common with the way of life taught by Nichiren Buddhism.
"In that spirit, let us press onwards, strive our hardest, and win.
That is the way to bring our lives to glorious completion, savouring ultimate victory and happiness."
16th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders' Meeting, A Bright and Beautiful Future Awaits the Valiant, excerpt from the 68th Soka Gakkai HQ Leaders Mtg., July 7th, 1993 Seikyo Newspaper, November 11th, 2023, translation released February 2024
* See Victor Hugo, Pendant l'exil: 1852-1870 (During the Exile: 1852-1870), in Actes et Paroles (Acts and Words), vol. 2 (Paris: Albin Michel, 1938), p. 84.
IKANARU YO NO MIDARE NIMO ONO ONO OBA HOKEKYO JURASETSU TASUKE TAMAE TO SHIMERERU KI YORI HI O IDASHI KAWAKERU TSUCHI YORI MIZU O MOKEN GA GOTOKU GOJONI MOSU NARI
New Gosho Zenshu page 1539,
Gosho Zenshu page 1132
And the Japanese kanji for
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