June 1st 2025 Sunday DAILY GOSHO plus June 2nd Monday DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT

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

Sunday, June 1st, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --

"When you shake your head, your hair sways; when your mind begins to work, your body moves. When a strong wind blows, the grass and trees can no longer remain still; when the earth shakes, the seas are atremble. Thus if one can move Shakyamuni Buddha, the lord of teachings, can the grass and trees fail to respond, can the waters remain calm?"

(Concerning the Statue of 

ShakyamuniBuddha 

Fashioned by Nichigen-nyo 

- WND, Vol.2, page 811)

Selection Source: 

June Zadankai Gosho, 

Seikyo Newspaper, June 1st, 2025

Monday, June 2nd, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"The Daishonin writes: 'Treating one's friends with courtesy means that, although one may encounter them ten or twenty times in the course of a single day, one greets them courteously as though they had travelled a thousand or two thousand miles to see one, never showing them indifference' (WND-2, 636).

"We subscribe to the enduring principle of respecting all life, exemplified by the Lotus Sutra passage: 'You should rise and greet him from afar, showing him the same respect you would a Buddha' (cf. LSOC28, 365).*

"The Daishonin declares that we are all Buddhas (cf. WND-1, 756).** He urges us to acknowledge and respect one another most highly, as illustrated by the two Buddhas Shakyamuni and Many Treasures*** sharing the same seat during the Ceremony in the Air**** depicted in the Lotus Sutra (cf. WND-1, 757).*****

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [83] Our Behaviour as Human beings Is the heart of Buddhism—Expanding Our movement with Sincerity, Wisdom and Joy,  Respecting One Another As Fellow Buddhas, March 2022 issue of Daibyakurenge, translation released November 2022 

* From the "Encouragements of the Bodhisattva Universal Worthy" (28th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra.

** The Daishonin writes: "All those who keep faith in the Lotus Sutra [Nam-myoho-renge-kyo] are most certainly Buddhas" (WND-1, 756).

*** Many Treasures: A Buddha depicted in the Lotus Sutra. Many Treasures appears, seated within his treasure tower, in order to lend credence to Shakyamuni's teachings in the sutra. According to the "Treasure Tower" (11th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra, Many Treasures Buddha lives in the World of Treasure Purity in the east. While still engaged in bodhisattva practice, he pledges that, even after entering nirvana, he will appear with his treasure tower in order to attest to the validity of the Lotus Sutra, wherever it might be taught.

**** Ceremony in the Air: One of the three assemblies described in the Lotus Sutra, in which the entire gathering is suspended in space above the saha world. It extends from "The Emergence of the Treasure Tower" (11th) chapter to the "Entrustment" (22nd) chapter. The heart of this ceremony is the emergence of the treasure tower from the earth and Shakyamuni entrusting the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, led by Bodhisattva Supreme Practice, with the propagation of the essence of the Lotus Sutra in the evil latter age after his passing.

***** The Daishonin writes: "You should respect one another as Shakyamuni and Many Treasures did at the ceremony in the "Treasure Tower' chapter" (WND-1, 757).

-- KYO NO GOSHO --

TATOEBA KOBE O FUREBA KAMI YURUGU KOKORO HATARAKEBA MI UGOKU OKAZE FUKEBA SOMOKU SHIZUKA NATAZU DAICHI UGOKEBA TAIKAI SAWAGASHI KYOSHU SHAKUSON O UGOKASHI TATEMATSUREBA YURUGANU SOMOKU YA ARUBEKI SAWAGANU MIZU YA ARUBEKI

New Gosho Zenshu page 1610
Gosho Zenshu page 1187

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

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

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