Tuesday, October 28th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"A person renounces his attachment to the four flavours and three teachings, and converts to faith in the Lotus Sutra that is true Mahayana, the heavenly gods and benevolent deities, as well as the bodhisattvas numerous as the dust particles of a thousand worlds who emerged from beneath the ground, will protect him as the votary of the Lotus Sutra. Under their protection, he will (establish and) spread abroad widely throughout Jambudvipa the object of the devotion of the essential teaching, or the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo."
Wednesday, October 29th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"You won't find your mission by standing still. Please challenge yourselves in something, it doesn't matter what. Then, by making consistent efforts, the direction you should take will open up before you quite naturally. It's important, therefore, to have the courage to ask yourselves what you should be doing now, at this very moment.
"The key, in other words, is to climb the mountain before you. As you ascend its slopes, you will develop your 'muscles,' increasing your strength and endurance. Such training will
enable you to challenge still higher mountains. It is vital that you continue making such efforts. Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo will enable you to bring forth the life force necessary to succeed."
The twenty-second instalment of "Passing the Baton to You, My Young Successors" was carried in the October 1st, 2025, issue of the Mirai [Future] Journal, the Soka Gakkai monthly newspaper for the junior high and high school divisions. The following is the English translation, published as SGI Newsletter, No. 11902, October 22nd, 2025.
SHIMI SANGYO TO NO JASYU O SUTETE JITSUDAIJO NO HOKEKYO NI KISEBA, SHOTENZENJIN NARABINI JIYUSENGAI TO NO BOSATSU, HOKKE NO GYOJA O SHUGO SEN. KONO HITO WA, SHUGO NO CHIKARA O ETE, HONMON NO HONZON, MYOHO-RENGE-KYO NO GOJI O MOTTE ENBUDAI NI KOSENRUFU SESHIMENKA.
And the Japanese kanji for
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