Daily Gosho & Encouragement, both using the latest official translations, all quotes are either from Nichiren Daishonin or Ikeda Sensei unless otherwise stated...
Monday, November 17th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"A passage in the Six Pāramitās Sutra says to become the master of your mind rather than let your mind master you."
(Reply to the Lay Priest Soya - WND, Vol. 1, page 486)
Selection Source: Tsukizuki Hibini,
Seikyo Newspaper, Nov. 17th, 2025
Tuesday, November 18th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings states that the dualistic view that sets up distinctions between good and bad, correct and incorrect, is in itself "ignorance."*
"The Daishonin says it is a sign of ignorance to make distinctions between self and others, viewing Bodhisattva Never Disparaging as good and the arrogant four kinds of believers as evil. Here, he is telling us that simply distinguishing good from evil is not the essence of Nichiren Buddhism.
"As he indicates when he cites the concepts that 'good and bad are not two different things' and 'correct and incorrect are one and the same' (OTT, 163), good and evil exist together within all people. Because of the mutual possession of the Ten Worlds,** through the practice of chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo we can make the fundamental ignorance within us dormant and activate the fundamental nature of enlightenment.***
"History teaches us that religion, while in one regard seeking happiness for people, has all too often been a source of division and conflict. The Lotus Sutra embodies a wisdom that transcends the duality of good and evil and regards both good and evil as potentials within all human beings. These potentials lie dormant or emerge depending upon external causes and conditions. It holds that it is possible to activate the good and teaches the principles for doing that.
"I explained this idea in a lecture at Italy's University of Palermo**** in 2007:
"I believe that the true value of creative, constructive dialogue is to be found in our effort to perfect and elevate our own lives, to suppress the manifestation of evil or negative aspects, and to foster and encourage the manifestation of good or positive aspects. This very effort underlies the kind of dialogue and communication that we are in such dire need of today."
The 104th and final instalment of President Ikeda's study lecture series "The Buddhism of the Sun, Illuminating the World" was carried in the December 2023 issue of The Daibyakurenge. This is the 14th and last of a multipart lecture on key passages from The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings and focuses on the "Bodhisattva Never Disparaging" chapter of the Lotus Sutra. The following is the English translation, published as SGI Newsletter, No. 11597, August 14th, 2024. The Inherent Potential for Both Good and Evil
* Ignorance here refers the fundamental ignorance inherent in life, the most deeply rooted illusion, said to give rise to all other illusions. It is the inability to see or recognize the ultimate truth of the Mystic Law or the negative impulses that arise from such ignorance.
**Mutual possession of the Ten Worlds: The principle that each of the Ten Worlds possesses the potential for all ten within itself. "Mutual possession" means that life is not fixed in one or another of the Ten Worlds but can manifest any of the ten—from hell to—at any given moment. The important point of this principle is that all beings in any of the nine worlds possess the Buddha nature. This means that every person has the potential to manifest Buddhahood, while a Buddha also possesses the nine worlds and, in this sense, is not separate or different from ordinary people.
***Fundamental nature of enlightenment: Also, Dharma nature. The unchanging nature inherent in all things and phenomena. It is identified with the fundamental Law itself, the essence of the Buddha's enlightenment, or ultimate truth, and the Buddha nature inherent in life.
**** On March 23, 2007, to commemorate its bicentennial, the University of Palermo in Sicily, Italy, presented President Ikeda with an honorary doctorate in communications. SGI Vice President Hiromasa Ikeda accepted the honour and read a lecture at the ceremony in Palermo on President Ikeda's behalf, entitled "From the Crossroads of Civilisation: A New Flourishing of Humanistic Culture."
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
KOKORO NO SHI TOWA NARUTOMO KOKORO O SHI TO SEZARE TOWA ROKUHARA MITSUKYO NO MON ZOKASHI
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And the Japanese kanji for Tsukizuki Hibini
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