Saturday May 3rd 2025 Daily Gosho + Sunday May 4th Daily Encouragement

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

Saturday, May 3rd, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"There are not two lands, pure or impure in themselves. The difference lies solely in the good or evil of our minds."

(On Attaining Buddhahood 

       in This Lifetime 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 4)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, 

Seikyo Newspaper, May 3rd, 2025

Friday, May 4th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---

"Soka Gakkai Day was officially designated in February 1980, the year after President Ikeda stepped down from his role as president. In May of that year, following a visit to Kyushu, President Ikeda arrived in Kansai and led a gongyo meeting on May 3rd, marking the inaugural Soka Gakkai event held in celebration of this commemorative day. At that historic meeting, he shared the following guidance:

"'The road to kosen-rufu is an unending struggle against devilish functions. In his writings, the Daishonin stresses the importance of pressing ahead steadily on the great path of faith without being swayed by the "eight winds."*

"'The "eight winds" are workings that agitate people's minds and cause them to lose their faith—things such as short-term gain, worldly honour, praise, censure, suffering, pleasure, and so forth.

"'Our human revolution, through which we cultivate self-mastery, is the key to establishing our own happiness and advancing kosen-rufu. Let us win over the "eight winds" with resolute faith and make fresh hope-filled strides towards the 21st century!'"

Headquarters Leaders Meeting Speech, Presidnet Harada's speech to the 7th Soka Gakkai headquarters Leaders Meeting Towards Centennial 2030, SGI Newsletter No. 11790, April 28th, 2025"

* Eight winds: Eight conditions that prevent people from advancing along the right path to enlightenment. According to The Treatise on the Stage of Buddhahood Sutra, the eight winds are prosperity, decline, disgrace, honour, praise, censure, suffering and pleasure. In "The Eight Winds," addressed to Shijo Kingo, the Daishonin writes: "Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds.... The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds" (WND-1, 794).

 

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
JODO TO II EDO TO IUMO DO NI FUTATSU NO HEDATE NASHI TADA WARERA GA KOKORO NO ZEN AKU NI YORU TO MIETARI

New Gosho Zenshu page 317
Gosho Zenshu page 384

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

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

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