Friday, June 6th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"If a person cannot manage to cross a moat ten feet wide, how can they cross one that is a hundred or two hundred feet?"
(The Actions of the Votary
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin,
Saturday, June 7th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"Nichiren Daishonin, from an early age, deeply pondered the meaning of life and death. He wrote:
"'I have been studying the Buddha's teachings since I was a boy. And I found myself thinking, "The life of a human being is fleeting... It is the way of the world that whether one is wise or foolish, old or young, one never knows what will happen to one from one moment to the next. Therefore I should first of all learn about death, and then about other things." (WND-2, 759)'
"Mr. Toda also often said that faith's true purpose is for the time of our death. And he declared: 'The final question Buddhism must settle is death, and the Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin provides the most fundamental answer to that question.'*
"How do we understand death? That question is inseparable from how we should live our lives. By squarely facing death and recognising life's eternal nature, we can lead more deeply fulfilling and grounded lives. This is the ultimate aim of religion."
Buddhism of the Sun, October 2023 issue of Daibyakurenge, 12th of a multipart lecture on key passages from The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, "Life Span of the Thus Comes One" chapter of the Lotus Sutra, SGI Newsletter No. 11566, released June 13th 2024
* Translated from Japanese. Josei Toda, Toda Josei zenshu (Collected Writings of Josei Toda), vol. 5 (Tokyo: Seikyo Shinbunsha, 1985), p. 364.
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