Thursday, November 7th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"You must simply make up your mind. Look at the world this year as a mirror. The reason that you have survived until now when so many have died was so that you would meet with this affair."
(Reply to Yasaburō
- WND, Vol. 1, page 829)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin,
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin,
Seikyo Newspaper, Nov. 7th, 2024
Friday, November 8th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"Because we embrace and spread the supreme teaching of the Mystic Law, all kinds of obstacles will assign us. Commenting on the words 'This sutra is hard to uphold' (LSOC11, 220)* from 'Treasure Tower' chapter, the Daishonin warns in The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings: 'One who upholds this Lotus Sutra should uphold it with the understanding that one will encounter difficulties' (OTT, 97). But he also says: 'Difficulties will arise, and these are to be looked on as "peaceful practices"' (OTT, 115). In other words, difficulties test and forge our faith."
Friday, November 8th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"Because we embrace and spread the supreme teaching of the Mystic Law, all kinds of obstacles will assign us. Commenting on the words 'This sutra is hard to uphold' (LSOC11, 220)* from 'Treasure Tower' chapter, the Daishonin warns in The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings: 'One who upholds this Lotus Sutra should uphold it with the understanding that one will encounter difficulties' (OTT, 97). But he also says: 'Difficulties will arise, and these are to be looked on as "peaceful practices"' (OTT, 115). In other words, difficulties test and forge our faith."
Buddhism of the Sun, Shining Our Brightest amid the Realities of This World, Chanting to the Gohonzon, Difficulties Are Opportunities for Changing Our Karma, June 2023 Daibyakurenge, SGI Newsletter No. 11466 translation released Feb 9th, 2024
* "This sutra is hard to uphold" 'LSOC11, 220): The third of the three pronouncements of the "Treasure Tower" chapter concerning propagating the Law after Shakyamuni's death.
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
TADA HITOENI OMOIKIRU BESHI KOTOSHI NO SEKEN O KAGAMI TO SEYO SOKOBAKUNO HITO NO SHINURUNI IMAMADE IKITE ARITSURUWA KONO KOTO NI AWAN TAME NARIKERI
New Gosho Zenshu page 2085
Gosho Zenshu page 1451
And the Japanese kanji for
Tsukizuki Hibini
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