Saturday, February 10th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"Therefore, one should by all means persist in preaching the Lotus Sutra and causing them to hear it. Those who put their faith in it will surely attain Buddhahood, while those who slander it will establish a 'poison-drum relationship' with it and will likewise attain Buddhahood."
(How Those Initially Aspiring to
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin,
Sunday, February 11th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"Seven hundred and fifty years ago [in 1273], amid his harrowing ordeal of exile on Sado Island, the Daishonin wrote in 'On Practicing the Buddha's Teachings':
When the people all chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, the wind will no longer buffet the branches, and the rain will no longer break the clods of soil. The world will become as it was in the ages of Fu Hsi and Shen Nung.* In their present existence the people will be freed from misfortune and disasters and learn the art of living long. Realise that the time will come when the truth will be revealed that both the person and the Law are unageing and eternal.
(WND-1, 392)
"Our chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the ultimate sound of respect for the dignity of life and universal harmony. It is the fundamental driving force for achieving the security of the land and world peace.
"Looking towards the eternal future of the Latter Day, the Daishonin taught us the great path of dialogue for realising true peace and prosperity everywhere based on the life-affirming principles of Buddhism."
16th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders' Meeting, Let's Change the Destiny of All Humankind! Seikyo Newspaper, November 2nd, 2023, translation released February 2024
* Hsi and Shen Nung were legendary kings who reigned over ideal societies in ancient China.
TOTEMO KAKUTEMO HOKEKYO O SHIITE TOKI KIKASU BESHI SHINZEN HITO WA HOTOKE NI NARUBESHI BOZEN MONO WA DOKKU NO EN TO NATTE HOTOKE NI NARU BEKINARI
New Gosho Zenshu page 697,
Gosho Zenshu page 552
And the Japanese kanji for
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