Thursday, November 13th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"The daimoku of the Lotus Sutra is like the roar of a lion, while the other sutras are like the cries of the other beasts."
(The Bodhisattva
Selection Source: Suntetsu,
Friday, November 14th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"All people possess the innate Buddha nature. However, even gold, if it remains buried in the ground, cannot reveal its value. Likewise, to mine the gold of the Buddha nature, we need good deeds, or practice, to develop wisdom and uncover the gold. This wisdom is what enables us to perceive the lustrous gold within us and to recognize its true value.
"The defining characteristic of Buddhism is that it clarifies the way to activate the Buddha nature which, though inactive at the moment, exists innately within all people.
"The ability to awaken and reveal the Buddha nature exists potentially within everyone, but the influence of another person is required to make an ordinary human being aware of that. What Buddhism calls a good friend* is crucial for bringing forth the three inherent potentials of the Buddha nature.
"Only a good friend dedicated to the vow for kosen-rufu, who prays for a person's happiness and teaches them about Buddhism, can awaken that person's Buddha nature. In some cases, it's as if that gold of the innate Buddha nature is buried deep in solid rock. But a good friend remains undeterred and keeps at it until they uncover the gold of happiness. Only through the patient, persevering efforts of such a good friend to connect them to Buddhism will a person finally awaken to their potential and become able to excavate their precious inner treasure with their own hands."
The 104th and final instalment of President Ikeda's study lecture series "The Buddhism of the Sun, Illuminating the World" was carried in the December 2023 issue of The Daibyakurenge. This is the 14th and last of a multipart lecture on key passages from The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings and focuses on the "Bodhisattva Never Disparaging" chapter of the Lotus Sutra. The following is the English translation, published as SGI Newsletter, No. 11597, August 14th, 2024. Excavating the "Gold" of the Buddha Nature.
* In Buddhism a "good friend" is an upright, virtuous person who leads people to Buddhism. A mentor who teaches Buddhism and fellow practitioners are examples of good friends.
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
HOKKE NO DAIMOKU WA SHISHI NO HOURU GA GOTOKU YOKYO WA YOJU NO KOE NO GOTOKU NARI
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