SUNDAY, Nov. 30th 2025 Daily Gosho plus MONDAY, Dec. 1st Daily Encouragement

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

Sunday, November 30th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"Where there is unseen virtue, there will be visible reward."

(Unseen Virtue and Visible Reward 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 907)
Selection Source: Tsukizuki Hibini, 

Seikyo Newspaper, Nov. 30th, 2025

Monday, December 1st, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"I'd like to share a passage from the Daishonin's writing 'On the Four Stages of Faith and the Five Stages of Practice':

"'I entreat the people of this country: Do not look down upon my disciples! If you inquire into their past, you will find that they are great bodhisattvas who have given alms to Buddhas over a period of eight hundred thousand million kalpas… .And if we speak of the future, they will be endowed with the benefit of the fiftieth person [who rejoices on hearing the Lotus Sutra],* surpassing that of one who gave alms to innumerable living beings for a period of eighty years [see LSOC18, 289–91]. They are like an infant emperor wrapped in swaddling clothes, or a great dragon who has just been born. Do not despise them! Do not look on them with contempt! (WND-1, 788–89)'

"None are nobler than the Bodhisattvas of the Earth who work for kosen-rufu. The Daishonin says that people must not look down upon them: 'Do not despise them! Do not look on them with contempt!'

"The universe is vast, as is the realm of Buddhism. The 'Life Span' chapter of the Lotus Sutra states that there are 'five hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, a million nayuta asamkhya major world systems' (LSOC16, 266). Buddhahood is a state of being in which we can make our way with perfect freedom through this infinitely vast universe. Serenely rising above small, trivial matters, let us advance confidently with broad and generous hearts.

"I am praying each day, that all of you, my dear fellow members, will lead safe, healthy, and prosperous lives, moving straight ahead on the path of kosen-rufu.

"I pray morning and evening that each one of you will become happy, achieve your great vow, and lead a truly meaningful and fulfilling life."

SGI Newsletter, No. 11631, October 2nd, 2024—from Ikeda Sensei's speech at the 12th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting, held at the Tokyo Makiguchi Memorial Hall in Hachioji, on June 16th, 1997. Video footage of the speech was broadcast during the recent headquarters leaders meeting held on September 7th, 2024. Those Who Strive Earnestly for Kosen-rufu Are the Treasures of Soka.

* Benefit of the fiftieth person: This refers to the immeasurable benefit obtained by even the fiftieth person in a chain of transmission who rejoices on hearing the Lotus Sutra.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
INTOKU AREBA YOHO ARI

New Gosho Zenshu page 1613
Gosho Zenshu page 1178

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

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

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