* Apologies for the slight mix up in dates yesterday!
Friday, November 7th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"If the spirit of many in body but one in mind prevails among the people, they will achieve all their goals, whereas if one in body but different in mind, they can achieve nothing remarkable. The more than three thousand volumes of Confucian and Taoist literature are filled with examples."
(Many in Body, One in Mind
- WND, Vol. 1, page 618)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin,
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin,
Seikyo Newspaper, Nov. 7th, 2025
Saturday, November 8th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"The benefits we accrue from working for kosen-rufu are eternal and indestructible across the three existences of past, present and future. Nichiren Daishonin says with regard to benefit (Jpn. kudoku): 'The element ku in the word kudoku . . . refers to the merit achieved by wiping out evil, while the element toku or doku refers to the virtue one acquires by bringing about good' (OTT, 148). One aspect of benefit lies in eliminating evil. Unless we eradicate the impurities and negative, destructive tendencies that exist within us, we cannot obtain true happiness. That is why we must fight those harmful tendencies.
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
ITAI DOSHIN NAREBA BANJI O JOJI DOTAI ISHIN NAREBA SHOJI KANAU KOTO NASHI TO MOSU KOTO WA GETEN SANZEN YOKAN NI SADAMATTE SORO
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Saturday, November 8th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"The benefits we accrue from working for kosen-rufu are eternal and indestructible across the three existences of past, present and future. Nichiren Daishonin says with regard to benefit (Jpn. kudoku): 'The element ku in the word kudoku . . . refers to the merit achieved by wiping out evil, while the element toku or doku refers to the virtue one acquires by bringing about good' (OTT, 148). One aspect of benefit lies in eliminating evil. Unless we eradicate the impurities and negative, destructive tendencies that exist within us, we cannot obtain true happiness. That is why we must fight those harmful tendencies.
"Now, all of you are leading a great movement for peace and justice throughout the world. In light of the Buddhist scriptures and the writings of Nichiren Daishonin, there is absolutely no doubt that infinite benefit will well forth from your noble youthful efforts."
Published as SGI Newsletter, No. 11585, July 19th, 2024—from Ikeda Sensei's speech at a special world peace gongyo meeting with participants of the 2002 SGI Youth Training Course, held at the Soka Culture Centre in Shinanomachi, Tokyo, on September 8th, 2002. Video footage of the speech was broadcast during the headquarters leaders meeting held on June 29th, 2024.
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
ITAI DOSHIN NAREBA BANJI O JOJI DOTAI ISHIN NAREBA SHOJI KANAU KOTO NASHI TO MOSU KOTO WA GETEN SANZEN YOKAN NI SADAMATTE SORO
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Gosho Zenshu page 1463
And the Japanese kanji for
Tsukizuki Hibini
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