Daily Gosho, Wednesday Sep. 17th 2025 plus Daily Encouragement Thursday Sep. 18th

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

Wednesday, September 17th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"There are six causes of illness: (1) disharmony of the four elements; (2) improper eating or drinking; (3) inappropriate practice of seated meditation; (4) attack by demons; (5) the work of devils; and (6) the effects of karma."

(On Curing Karmic Disease 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 631)
Selection Source: Myoji no Gen, 

Seikyo Newspaper, Sep. 17th, 2025

Thursday, September 18th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---

"To illustrate the karmic bond of mentor and disciple, the Daishonin quotes for his loyal disciple Sairen-bo a passage from the Lotus Sutra: 'Those persons who had heard the Law dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers' (LSOC7, 178).

"This passage highlights the sublime essence of the Lotus Sutra—that the mentor-disciple bond is not limited to this existence, that mentor and disciple are always born together, in lifetime after lifetime and ceaselessly take action to guide people to happiness. Together, they strive to transform wherever they are into a Buddha land and help all people change their karma. This is their promise and their vow from the infinite past.

"The bond of mentor and disciple based on the Mystic Law transcends the bounds of life and death and is eternal, enduring throughout past, present and future. Mr. Toda referred to the same Lotus Sutra passage to describe his bond with his mentor Tsunesaburo Makiguchi.* Today, SGI members around the world are studying and carrying on that spirit of mentor and disciple."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [63] To Our Future Division Members, the Torchbearers of Justice—Our Hope for the Future—part 2 [of 3], "The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life" — Humanity Is Awaiting Your Growth, The Bond of Mentor and Disciple Is Eternal, July 2020 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released March 2021

* To give one such example, at a memorial service for President Makiguchi, Mr. Toda said: "In your vast and boundless compassion, you let me accompany you even to prison. As a result, I could read with my entire being the passage from the Lotus Sutra: 'Those persons who had heard the Law dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers' (LSOCT, 178). The benefit of this was coming to know my former existence as a Bodhisattva of the Earth, and to absorb, with my very life, even a small degree of the sutra's meaning. Could there be any greater happiness than this?"

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
YAMAI NO OKORU INNEN O AKASUNI MUTTSU ARI ICHI NIWA SHIDAI NO JUN NARAZARU GA YUENI YAMU NI NIWA ONJIKI NO SETSU NARAZARU GA YUENI YAMU SAN NIWA ZAZEN NO TOTONOWAZARU GA YUENI YAMU SHI NIWA KI TAYORI O U GO NIWA MA NO SHOI NARI ROKU NIWA GO NO OKORU GA YUENI YAMU

New Gosho Zenshu page 1359
Gosho Zenshu page 1009

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

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

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