Sunday, June 8th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"Both practice and study arise from faith. Teach others to the best of your ability, even if it is only a single sentence or phrase."
(The True Aspect of All Phenomena
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Monday, June 9th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT —
"In September 1993, three decades ago, I presented my second invitational lecture at Harvard University* In seeking to conquer the fear and apprehension of death, I noted, humanity aspired for something eternal, which is why religion is as old as the history of humankind. But modern civilisation, I pointed out, has diverted its gaze from this most fundamental question of existence:
"Death is more than the absence of life, [and] death, together with active life, is necessary to the formation of a larger more essential whole. The greater whole to which I refer is the deeper continuity of life and death, which we experience as individuals and which we express as culture. A central and fundamental challenge for the coming century will be that of establishing a culture—based on an understanding of life and death and of life's essential eternity—that does not disown death, but directly confronts and correctly positions death within a larger living context. **
"The essence of Mahayana Buddhism is its clear articulation of a view of life and death in which both can be experienced with joy, thus providing a light of hope for humanity."
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
* On September 24, 1993, President Ikeda delivered his second invitational lecture at Harvard University, entitled "Mahayana Buddhism and Twenty-first Century Civilisation." In it, he suggested that Mahayana Buddhism had three roles to play in 21st century civilisation: acting as a driving force for the creation of a peaceful society, as a source for the restoration of humanity, and as a philosophical basis for the symbiotic coexistence of all things.
**Daisaku Ikeda, "Mahayana Buddhism and Twenty-first Century Civilisation" <https://www.daisakuikeda.org/sub/resources/works/lect/lect-04.html> (accessed June 13th, 2024).
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