31st March, Sunday, 2024 Daily Gosho + 1st April, Monday 🌸 Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement, both using the latest official translations...

Sunday, March 31st, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"For example, if one lights a fire for others, one will brighten one's own way."

(On the Three Virtues of Food 

- WND, Vol. 2, page 1060)
Selection Source: Experience in faith, 

Seikyo Newspaper, March 31st, 2024

Monday, April 1st, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"Those who challenge themselves earnestly, aligning their lives with kosen-rufu and the SGI, lay the foundations for eternal happiness."

Day by Day and Month after Month - the replacement to To My Friends on the front page of Seikyo Newspaper, November 26th, 2023, from The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, 3.10. Translation released February, 2024

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
TATOEBA HITO NO TAMENI HI O TOMOSEBA WAGA MAE AKIRAKA NARUGA GOTOSHI

New Gosho Zenshu page 2156,
Gosho Zenshu page 1598

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Sat. 30th March 2024 Daily Gosho + Sun. 31st March Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement, both using the latest official translations...

Saturday, March 30th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"If one dyes something repeatedly in indigo, it becomes even bluer than the indigo leaves. The Lotus Sutra is like the indigo, and the strength of one's practice is like the deepening blue."

(HellIs the Land of Tranquil Light 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 457)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, 

Seikyo Newspaper, March 30th, 2024

Sunday, March 31st, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"Through the power of his great compassion, the Daishonin continued his struggle to spread the Law widely, triumphing over every obstacle and even life-threatening persecution to free all people from suffering. Soka mentors and disciples, carrying on the Daishonin's selfless struggle, have spread the Mystic Law throughout Japan and the world with unwavering faith, translating compassion into courageous action. The Soka family is a noble gathering of ordinary people who embody 'the mercy and compassion of Nichiren and his followers' (OTT, 43)."

THE BUDDHISM OF THE SUN-ILLUMINATING THE WORLD, Key Passages from The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings [5] "Simile and Parable" and "Belief and Understanding" Chapters, Parables Are Expresssion sof the Buddha's Great Compassion and Wisdom, March 2023 issue of Daibyakurenge, translation released February 2024

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
AI WA HA NO TOKI YORIMO NAO SOMUREBA IYOIYO AOSHI HOKEKYO WA AI NO GOTOSHI SHUGYO NO FUKAKI WA IYOIYO AOKI GA GOTOSHI

New Gosho Zenshu page 1834,
Gosho Zenshu page 1505

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Friday, 29th March 2024 Daily Gosho + Saturday, 30th March Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement both using official translations

Friday, March 29th, 2024

-- DAILY GOSHO --

Nichiren and his followers, those who chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, one and all will "together reach the place where the treasure is." This one word "together" means that, as long as they are together with Nichiren, they will reach the treasure land.

(The Parable of the Phantom City: 

Seven important points 

- OTT, page 78)

Selection Source: Kyō no Hosshin

Seikyo Newspaper 

    - Friday, March 29th, 2024

Saturday, March 30th, 2024

--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---

"I am counting on you to develop your abilities so you can create a future where all people live in peace and respect and treasure each other's precious lives."

Towards 2030—To Our Bright Beacons of Hope, [45] Let's Cherish Each Day, from December 2023's Hope News, translation released February 2024

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---

NICHIRENRA NO TAGUI, NAN-MYŌHŌ-RENGE-KYŌ TO TONAE TATEMATSURU MONO WA, ICHIDŌ NI "KAIGUSHI HŌSHO" NARI. "GU" NO ICHIJI WA, NICHIREN NI GŪ SURU TOKI WA HŌSHO NI ITARU BESHI.

(New Gosho Zenshu page 1024, 

Gosho Zenshu page 734)

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Thurs. March 28 2024 Daily Gosho plus Fri. March 29 Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement, both using the most recent official translations...

Thursday, March 28th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"Myō means to revive, that is, to return to life."

(The Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 149)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, 

Seikyo Newspaper, March 28th, 2024

Friday, March 29th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"The Daishonin describes the 'great compassion' of the Buddha, who wishes for all living beings to attain enlightenment, as being 'like the mercy and compassion that a mother feels for her child' (OTT, 43). This 'great compassion' is absolute and unconditional, naturally emanating from the Buddha's state of being. And the Daishonin adds: 'At present it is the mercy and compassion of Nichiren and his followers' (OTT, 43)."

THE BUDDHISM OF THE SUN-ILLUMINATING THE WORLD, Key Passages from The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings [5] "Simile and Parable" and "Belief and Understanding" Chapters, Parables Are Expresssion sof the Buddha's Great Compassion and Wisdom, March 2023 issue of Daibyakurenge, translation released February 2024

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
MYO TOWA SOSEI NO GI NARI SOSEI TO MOSU WA YOMIGAERU GI NARI

New Gosho Zenshu page 541,
Gosho Zenshu page 947

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Wed. 27th March 2024 Daily Gosho + Thurs. 28th March Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement, both using the latest official translations...

Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"In the Latter Day of the Law, the votary of the Lotus Sutra will appear without fail. The greater the hardships befalling him, the greater the delight he feels, because of his strong faith. Doesn't a fire burn more briskly when logs are added?"

(A Ship to Cross the Sea of Suffering 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 33)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, 

Seikyo Newspaper, March 27th, 2024

Thursday, March 28th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"On days when things don't go your way, you can chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and challenge yourself again the next day with renewed energy. Please study and train yourself with all your might, day by day and month after month!"

Towards 2030—To Our Bright Beacons of Hope, [45] Let's Cherish Each Day, from December 2023's Hope News, translation released February 2024

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
MAPPO NIWA HOKEKYO NO GYOJA KANARAZU SHUTTAI SUBESHI TADASHI DAINAN KITARINABA GOJO NO SHINJIN IYOIYO YOROKOBI O NASU BESHI HI NI TAKIGI O KUWAEN NI SAKAN NARU KOTO NAKARU BESHIYA

New Gosho Zenshu page 1720,
Gosho Zenshu page 1448

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Tsukizuki Hibini 

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Tues. 26th March 2024 Daily Gosho + Wed. 27th March Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement, both using official translations...

Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"We know that all people who hear the sutra will, without a single exception, attain Buddhahood."  

"The Treasure of a Filial Child," 

WND-l page 1042

Selection Source: Suntetsu 

Seikyo Newspaper, March 26th, 2024

Wednesday, March 27th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---

"Parables are more than just illustrative stories; they are expressions of— and, indeed, the crystallisation of — the Buddha's wisdom and compassion. In the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni says: 'The living beings in [this threefold world] are all my children' (LSOC3, 106). As these words indicate, the Buddha's parables are rooted in his deep concern for all people as if they were his own children, and his ardent wish to protect them and lead them to enlightenment."

THE BUDDHISM OF THE SUN-ILLUMINATING THE WORLD, Key Passages from The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings [5] "Simile and Parable" and "Belief and Understanding" Chapters, Parables Are Expresssion sof the Buddha's Great Compassion and Wisdom, March 2023 issue of Daibyakurenge, translation released February 2024

-- KYO NO GOSHO -- 
KONO KYO O KIKU HITO WA HITORIMO KAKEZU HOTOKE NI NARU TO MOSU MON NARI.

New Gosho Zenshu page 1749,  

Gosho Zenshu page 1319
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Daily Gosho Monday, 25th March, 2024 + Daily Encouragement Tuesday, 26th March

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement, both using the latest official translations...

Monday, March 25th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"This passage refers to the great joy that one experiences when one understands for the first time that one's mind from the very beginning has been a Buddha. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys."

(The Essential Passage in 

Each of the Twenty-eight Chapters 

of the Lotus Sutra 

- OTT, page 211)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, 

Seikyo Newspaper, March 25th, 2024

Tuesday, March 26th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'One day of life is more valuable than all the treasures of the [universe]' (see WND-1, 955). That is how wonderful it is to be alive today.

"When you cherish each day and try your best, everything you experience, including your struggles and failures, will become 'treasures of the heart.' If you write it all down in a diary, it will be a record of all your treasures."

Towards 2030—To Our Bright Beacons of Hope, [45] Let's Cherish Each Day, from December 2023's Hope News, translation released February 2024

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
KONO MON WA HAJIMETE WAGA KOKORO HONRAI NO HOTOKE NARI TO SHIRU O SUNAWACHI DAIKANKI TO NAZUKU IWAYURU NANMYOHORENGEKYO WA KANKI NO NAKA NO DAIKANKI NARI

New Gosho Zenshu page 1097,
Gosho Zenshu page 788

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Tsukizuki Hibini 

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Sun. March 24th, 2024 Daily Gosho + Mon. March 25th Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement, both using official translations...

Sunday, March 24th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
A bow of obeisance acknowledging the fact that "self" and "others" are in fact not two different things.  For this reason, when the bodhisattva Never Disparaging makes his bow of obeisance to the four kinds of believers, the Buddha nature inherent in the four kinds of believers of overbearing arrogance bows in obeisance to the bodhisattva Never Disparaging. It is like the situation when one faces a mirror and makes a bow of obeisance: the image in the mirror likewise makes a bow of obeisance to oneself.

(The Bodhisattva Never Disparaging chapter, 

OTT, page 165)
Selection Source: One Gosho, 

Seikyo Newspaper, March 24th, 2024

Monday, March 25th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"It is said that Goethe's mother once wrote to him saying that there are many joys in this world, if only one knows how to look for them?

"The joy of living is the key to happiness in life. There is no greater treasure than the wisdom to freely find and bring forth joy and inspiration from the depths of one's life.

"In the Lotus Sutra, there are many expressions of rejoicing such as 'dancing for joy' (see LSOC3, 105) and 'their hearts were filled with great joy' (LSOC3, 89).

"None express greater joy than Shakyamuni's voice-hearer disciples when they learn, through the Buddha's wisdom, of their true inherent potential—that they are not excluded from attaining enlightenment [as they were taught in the pre-Lotus Sutra teachings], but in fact are destined to attain it and then go on to help others do the same.

"Let us, too, as Soka Gakkai members who believe in and uphold the Mystic Law, each write a triumphant history pervaded with great joy by revealing our originally inherent life state, awakened to our true mission, through chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo."

THE BUDDHISM OF THE SUN-ILLUMINATING THE WORLD, Key Passages from The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings [5] "Simile and Parable" and "Belief and Understanding" Chapters, "There Are Many Joys in This World, March 2023 issue of Daibyakurenge, translation released February 2024

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
JITA FUNI NO RAIHAI NARI SONO YUE WA FUKYO BOSATSU NO SHISHU O RAIHAI SUREBA JOMAN NO SHISHU NO SONAURU TOKORO NO BUSSHO MO MATA FUKYO BOSATSU O RAIHAI SURU NARI KAGAMI NI MUKATTE RAIHAI O NASU TOKI UKABERU KAGE MATA WARE O RAIHAI SURU NARI UNNUN

New Gosho Zenshu page 1071,
Gosho Zenshu page 769

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Tsukizuki Hibini 

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Saturday, March 23rd, 2024 Daily Gosho & Sunday, March 24th Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement, both using official translations...

Saturday, March 23rd, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"You should just go on speaking like a country person"

(On the Proper Way to Preach the Doctrine 

- WND, Vol. 2, page 343)
Selection Source: 

The Power of Words to Build 

an Inclusive Society -
Living in an Age of Crisis: 

The Philosophy of Hope, 

Seikyo Newspaper, March 23rd, 2024

Sunday, March 24th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"In Japan, it is said that autumn is the season of increased appetite. Nutritious food feeds us and builds our strength.

"Now, I have a question for you: If food feeds our bodies, what feeds our hearts and minds?

"The answer is: Reading books!

"...Reading good books provides us with knowledge and enriches us. It enables us to travel freely across time and borders and gives us the power to create a life of infinite possibility."

TOWARDS 2030-TO OUR BRIGHT BEACONS OF HOPE,  [44] Reading Feeds Our Hearts and Minds, from Nov. 1st, 2023 issue of Hope News, translation released February 2023

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
KOTOBA OBA TADA INAKA KOTOBA NITE ARUBESHI

New Gosho Zenshu page 1657,
Gosho Zenshu page 1268

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Friday, March 22nd 2024 Daily Gosho + Saturday, March 23rd Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement both using official translations

Friday, March 22nd, 2024

-- DAILY GOSHO --

Now Nichiren and his followers, who chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, are carrying out the purification of the six sense organs.

(Benefits of the Teacher of the Law: 

Four important points 

- OTT, page 148)

Selection Source: Kyō no Hosshin

Seikyo Newspaper - Friday, March 22nd, 2024

Saturday, March 23rd, 2024

--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---

"'Where we gladly greet the sun

Every care is gone at last;

Each a different course may run, 

Therefore is the world so vast.'*

"These words in praise of life were penned by the German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), one of the great spiritual companions of my youth. I fondly recall reciting Goethe's poetry for my mentor, Josei Toda.

THE BUDDHISM OF THE SUN-ILLUMINATING THE WORLD, Key Passages from The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings [5] "Simile and Parable" and "Belief and Understanding" Chapters The Mystic Law Is the Unsurpassed Treasure Possessed by All,March 2023 issue of Daibyakurenge, translation released February 2024

* Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, translated by Krishna Winston, in Goethe's Collected Works, vol. 10, edited by Jane K. Brown (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995), p. 319.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --

IMA, NICHIRENRA NO TAGUI, NAN-MYŌHŌ-RENGE-KYŌ TO TONAE TATEMATSURU MONO WA, "ROKKON SHŌJŌ" NARI. 

(New Gosho Zenshu page 1062, 

Gosho Zenshu page 762)

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Thursday, 21st March 2024 Daily Gosho + Friday, 22nd March Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement, both using official translations.

Thursday, March 21st, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"Although I and my disciples may encounter various difficulties, if we do not harbour doubts in our hearts, we will as a matter of course attain Buddhahood."

(The Opening of the Eyes 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 283)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, 

Seikyo Newspaper, March 21st, 2024

Friday, March 22nd, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"Nichiren Daishonin overcame every adversity with the spirit:

'This is my vow, and I will never forsake it!' (WND-1, 281). Our prayers as Soka Gakkai members are directly connected to this great vow. They do not rely on a higher power or luck—they are the starting point of our vow and actions towards achieving our goals, no matter what. Through unwavering prayer and steady effort, let's open the way to a hope-filled future."

Towards 2030—To My Young Successors, The Torchbearers of Justice, [44] Our Prayer Is a Vow!, Future Journal, 1st Nov. 2023 issue, translation released February 2024.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
WARE NARABINI WAGA DESHI SHONAN ARITOMO UTAGAU KOKORO NAKUBA JINENNI BUKKAI NI ITARU BESHI

New Gosho Zenshu page 117
Gosho Zenshu page 234

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Daily Gosho, March 20th , 2024 & Daily Encouragement, March 21st

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement, both using official translations

Wednesday, March 20th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"That is why the Great Teacher Miao-lo stated, 'The stronger one's faith, the greater the protection of the gods.' So long as one maintains firm faith, one is certain to receive the great protection of the gods."

(The Supremacy of the Law 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 614)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, 

Seikyo Newspaper, March 20th, 2024

Thursday, March 21st, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"'The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings says: This chapter [the "Prophecy of Enlightenment for Five Hundred Disciples" (8th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra tells the story of the priceless jewel that was sewn into the lining of a man's robe. In a word, it means that Nichiren and his followers, who chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, have accepted and taken faith in the wisdom jewel of the Wonderful Law [Mystic Law] of the one vehicle. The mind of faith is comparable to the jewel that is sewn into the robe.'

- From The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, p. 78.

"The parable of the jewel in the robe is the story of an impoverished person's great joy on discovering, after long wanderings amid trials and hardships, an unsurpassed jewel hidden in his robe by a friend many years before.

"We all inherently possess the supreme life state of Buddhahood. When we realise this truth, we can tap the boundless treasure of wisdom within us to overcome any difficulty.

"Our sincere encouragement has the power to inspire an inner awakening in others. Together let's create such wonderful dramas brimming with 'the greatest of all joys' (OTT, 212)!"

Towards a Hope-Filled Future with the Daishonin's Writings, The Supreme Treasure Exists within Us, Seikyo Newspaper 21st Nov. 2023, translation released February, 2024 

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
MYORAKU DAISHI NOTAMAWAKU KANARAZU KOKORO NO KATAKI NI YOTTE KAMI NO MAMORI SUNAWACHI TSUYOSHI TO UNNUN HITO NO KOKORO KATAKEREBA KAMI NO MABORI KANARAZU TSUYOSHI TO KOSO SORAE

New Gosho Zenshu page 1689,
Gosho Zenshu page 1220

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