Thursday, February 8th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."
On Prayer
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin,
Friday, February 9th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"'Entering into the relation of teacher and [disciple] is the result of a bond that bridges the three existences. . . . [The following] golden words cannot possibly be wrong: "Those persons who had heard the Law dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers" [see LSOC7, 178], and "If one stays close to the teachers of the Law, one will speedily gain the way of enlightenment. By following and learning from these teachers one will see Buddhas as numerous as Ganges sands' [see LSOC10, 208].
— From 'On the Five Seasonal Festivals' (WND-2, 375).
"Buddhist study in the Soka Gakkai is directly connected to Nichiren Daishonin, the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law. Through reading his writings, we come in direct contact with his towering life state, rousing our courage to summon forth the heart of a lion king and strive for kosen-rufu.
"Through steadfast commitment to practice-oriented Buddhist study, we show actual proof of 'putting faith into practice in daily life' and 'Buddhism into action in society.' This is the pride and honour of Soka mentors and disciples."
Towards a Hope-Filed Future with the Daishonin's Writings, The Pride of Studying Buddhism Directly Connected to Nichiren Daishonin, translated from 9th September, 2023, issue of the Seikyo Newspaper, translation released late December 2023
DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURU TOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIHINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI IZURUTOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU
New Gosho Zenshu page 592,
Gosho Zenshu page 1351
And the Japanese kanji for
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