Daily Gosho Saturday 15th Nov. 2025 plus Daily Encouragement Sunday 16th Nov.

* Yesterday's posting was explaining about the Saha World…it should have read... "Saha world: This world, which is full of suffering. Often translated as the world of endurance. In Sanskrit, saha derives from a root meaning "to bear" or "to endure." For this reason, in the Chinese versions of Buddhist scriptures, saha is rendered as endurance. In this context, the saha world indicates a world in which people must endure suffering...Our apologies for any confusion that might have occurred.

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

Saturday, November 15th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"This passage refers to the great joy that one experiences when one understands for the first time that one's mind from the very beginning has been a Buddha. Nam-Myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys."

(The Essential Passage in 

Each of the Twenty-eight Chapters 

of the Lotus Sutra, Prophecy of 

Enlightenment for Five Hundred Disciples
chapter - OTT, page 211)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Newspaper, November 15th, 2025

Sunday, November 16th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"The Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law is 'an ordinary mortal and an ordinary priest' (OTT, 157).

"Mr. Toda once discussed it in a lecture, saying: 'Neither Bodhisattva Never Disparaging nor the Daishonin had the appearance of a magnificent, light-emanating Buddha. The Daishonin was an ordinary human being.'*

"The principle that "ordinary people are identical with the highest level of being [i.e., Buddhahood]"** (OTT, 22) defines the true nature of the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law, affirming that genuine Buddhas are not superhuman beings.

"Kosen-rufu is a struggle that advances through practitioners going out into society and, like Bodhisattva Never Disparaging, engaging with one individual after another and forging personal relationships. People who share and spread the Mystic Law for the sake of those who are suffering will attain Buddhahood. It has nothing to do with social status, titles, or recognition.

"Action is most important. When we are active, the Mystic Law shines in our hearts.

"Through his persistence in dialogue while showing profound respect for others, Bodhisattva Never Disparaging received the benefit of purifying his six sense organs*** and extended his life."  

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. The Buddha Is Motivated by Compassion

* Translated from Japanese. Josei Toda, Toda Josei zenshu (Collected Writings of Josei Toda), vol. 6 (Tokyo: Seikyo Shimbunsha, 1986), p. 487.

** This teaching that the supreme life state of Buddhahood exists within ordinary people who are afflicted by suffering and delusion is affirmed by the doctrine of the mutual possession of the Ten Worlds elucidated in the Lotus Sutra.

*** When the six sense organs—eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind—are purified, they function properly and are no longer affected by earthly desires or deluded impulses, thereby producing various benefits.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
HAJIMETE WAGA KOKORO HONRAI NO HOTOKE NARI TO SHIRU O SUNAWACHI DAIKANKI TO NAZUKU IWAYURU NANMYOHORENGEKYO WA KANKI NO NAKA NO DAI KANKI NARI

New Gosho Zenshu page 1097
Gosho Zenshu page 788

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini on 

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

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