19th Dec. 2024 - Thursday Daily Gosho and 20th Dec. Friday Daily Encouragement

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

Thursday, December 19th, 2024
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"In this chapter Shakyamuni Buddha revealed the foremost point he wished to convey to us. The Buddha preached the Lotus Sutra over a period of eight years, and eight characters sum up the message that he has left behind for living beings in this later age, the Latter Day of the Law. It is in the passage that reads, 'Therefore, Universal Worthy, if you see a person who accepts and upholds this sutra, you should rise and greet him from afar, showing him the same respect you would a Buddha' (chapter twenty-eight), particularly the eight characters that make up the end of the passage, 'you should rise and greet him,' etc."

(Encouragements of the 

Bodhisattva Universal 

Worthy chapter, OTT, page 192)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, 

Seikyo Newspaper, Dec. 19th, 2024

Friday, December 20th, 2024
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---

" No bodhisattva or Buddha takes the easy way out. Bodhisattvas actively go to the most challenging places, and that is why their noble lives shine with the light of Buddhahood.

"That is the reason for the Daishonin's words 'Now Nichiren and his followers are encouraging others to adopt [or embrace] Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and to make it their own practice' (OTT, 110). Our practice is to courageously reach out to others and leap in among the people to share Buddhism."

Buddhism of the Sun, July 2023 Daibyakurenge, Bodhisattva Voluntarily Appear in the Most Challenging Places, translation released March 8th, 2024 in the SGI Newsletter No. 11490

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
KONO HON NO TOKI SAIJO DAIICHI NO SODEN ARI SHAKUSON HACHIKANEN NO HOKEKYO O HACHIJI NI TODOMETE MATSUDAI NO SHUJO NI YUZURI TAMO NARI HACHIJI TOWA TOKIONGO TONYOKYOBUTSU NO MON NARI

New Gosho Zenshu page 1086
Gosho Zenshu page 781

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

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

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