14th Jan. 2025 Tuesday Daily Gosho & 15th Jan. Wednesday Daily Encouragement

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

Tuesday, January 14th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"The three thousand worlds of the Dharma-realm may be termed secret and wonderful.  Secret means strict [or without a single exception].  The three thousand worlds, every single one of them, exist [in one's life].  There is nothing more unfathomable than this!" 

("Expedient Means Chapter

    - Eight important points" 

OTT page 22) 

Source:  Buddhist Teachings

Seikyo Newspaper: January 14th, 2025

Wednesday, January 15th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---

"'Such persons, who ... put faith in the Lotus Sutra alone, and chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, will transform the three paths of earthly desires, karma and suffering into the three virtues of the Dharma body, wisdom and emancipation. The threefold contemplation and the three truths will immediately become manifest in their minds,* and the place where they live will become the Land of Eternally Tranquil Light.'

- From "The Entity of the Mystic Law" (WND-1, 420).

"This is a passage I studied with my fellow members in Kansai during the Osaka Campaign** of 1956. Faith in the Mystic Law enables us to transform all hardships into a springboard for attaining the life state of 'the Buddha who is the entity of Myoho-renge-kyo' (WND-1, 420).

"The power of the Gohonzon is limitless. The more we chant and engage in dialogue for the sake of the Law, the happiness of our friends, and the betterment of society, the more we can change

our karma.

"Together let's joyfully expand our life state and accumulate boundless good fortune as we each strive to transform the place where we have chosen to fulfil our vow into the Land of Eternally Tranquil Light!"

Towards a Hope-filled Future with the Daishonin's Writings, Transforming Our Community into the Land of Eternally Tranquil Light, Jan. 24th 2023 issue of Seikyo Newspaper, translation released March 2023 

* The "threefold contemplation" and the "three truths" here mean subjective wisdom and objective reality, respectively and the expression that these "will immediately become manifest in their minds" represents the fusion of wisdom and reality.

** Osaka Campaign: In May 1956, the Kansai members, uniting around a young Daisaku Ikeda, who had been dispatched by second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda to support them, introduced 11,111 households to the practice of Nichiren Buddhism.

-- KYO NO GOSHO -- 

HOKAI SANZEN O 'HIMYO' TO YUNARI.  HI TOWA, KIBISHIKI NARI, SANZEN RARETSU NARI. KOREYORI HOKANI FUSHIGI KORE NASHI.

New Gosho Zenshu page 993,  

Gosho Zenshu page 714

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

on Seikyo Shinbun's web-site

https://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/

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