Daily Gosho Tues. May 6th 2025 & Daily Encouragement Wed. May 7th

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

Tuesday, May 6th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO —
"A wise person, while dwelling in security, anticipates danger; a perverse one, while dwelling amid danger, takes security for granted." 

("The Problem to Be Pondered 

        Night and Day" 

WND-l page 620)

Source:  Suntetsu

Seikyo Newspaper: May 6th, 2025

Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---

"The authorities also punished the newspapers that dared print Tolstoy's just and reasoned arguments. Base articles defaming the great writer were also circulated. This is the unchanging pattern of the malicious persecution encountered by those who stand up for justice. The same still takes place today. That is why we must continue to fight back with words of truth.

"'Things cannot continue as they are!' 'I cannot remain silent!' Tolstoy's courageous cry became the cry of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of people —their voices resounding powerfully across the land.

"On his 80th birthday on August 28th, 1908, letters of appreciation and good wishes poured in from people throughout his country—and, indeed, from all corners of the world. One of them from a group of factory workers read: 'We, the workers of Russia, proudly consider you a national treasure.'*

"Praise from the people—this is the true honour. The Soka Gakkai's advance has been accompanied by just such praise. That's why our organisation is strong. That is why it is never defeated.

"Tolstoy declared: 'Someone can destroy the place where we live, but the house of the spirit that is forged through pure thoughts and right action stands invincible before eternity. Moreover, nothing can harm the person who dwells in that house.'**

"The Soka Gakkai is truly a great, indestructible bastion of the spirit. Let us boldly raise one flag of victory after another over this brilliant citadel of justice."

Excerpt from Ikeda Sensei's speech to the Soka Gakkai Headquarters leaders meeting July 16th, 2003, shown as video footage at recent headquarters leaders meeting, April 12th, 2025, SGI Newsletter 11795, translation released May 2nd, 2025.

* Biryukov, Dai Torusutoi, vol.3, p. 230

** Translated from Russian. From the 2003 Calendar Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of Tolstoy's Birth, published by the State L. N. Tolstoy Museum

-- KYO NO GOSHO— 
KENJIN WA YASUKI NI ITE AYAUKI O OMOI, NEIJIN WA AYAUKI NI ITE YASUKI O OMOU.

New Gosho Zenshu page 1323,  

Gosho Zenshu page 969

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

on Seikyo Shinbun's web-site

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

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