Tues. April 23rd, 2024 Daily Gosho + Wed. April 24th Daily Encouragement

Daily Gosho & Daily Encouragement, both using the latest official translations, all quotes are either from Nichiren Daishonin or Ikeda Sensei unless otherwise stated...

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"It is no doubt because of karmic forces that they became my parents, and I, their child."  

("Letter to Jakunichi-bo," 

WND-l page 993)

Selection Source: 

  Member's Experience in Faith 

Seikyo Newspaper, April 23rd, 2024

Wednesday, April 24th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---

"The 'cluster of unsurpassed jewels' represents all the benefits acquired through the good deeds and practices carried out by the Buddhas of the three existences in their efforts to attain enlightenment. The Daishonin tells us that all those immense benefits are inherent in Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.

"'And without labour or trouble, without religious practices or good deeds, this cluster of unsurpassed jewels can come into our possession through the single word 'faith' [i.e., faith in Nam-myoho-renge-kyo]' (OTT, 59), states the Daishonin, underscoring how great and wonderful is our practice of chanting the single phrase Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. It is extremely difficult, and at the same time astounding, to realise that the fruit of Buddhahood—a 'cluster of unsurpassed jewels'—that so many seekers of the way had sought to gain through arduous practice over long eons in the pre Lotus Sutra teachings—are all contained in the single phrase Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.

"Just believing this requires an unceasing battle against fundamental ignorance. When we continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what our hardships and sufferings, we will come to enjoy boundless good fortune, as if accumulating all the treasures of the universe in our lives."

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, Coming into Possession of the "Cluster of unsurpassed Jewels," March 2023 issue of Daibyakurenge, translation released February 2024.

-- KYO NO GOSHO -- 
FUBO TO NARI, SONO KO TO NARUMO, KANARAZU SHUKUJU NARI.

New Gosho Zenshu page 1269,  

Gosho Zenshu page 902

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

on Seikyo Shinbun's web-site
https://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/

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