Sunday, Feb. 23rd, 2025 Daily Gosho plus Monday, Feb. 24th 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, February 23rd, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"Iron, when heated in the flames and pounded, becomes a fine sword. Worthies and sages are tested by abuse."

(Letter from Sado 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 303)
Selection Source: One Gosho, 

Seikyo Newspaper, Feb. 23rd, 2025

Monday, February 24th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
" ...only with a grassroots network of people awakened to their mission as Bodhisattvas of the Earth, people ready to dive into this defiled world in accord with their original vow, will we realise worldwide kosen-rufu, which the Buddha calls for in the Lotus Sutra (see LSOC23, 330)."*

Buddhism of the Sun, The Soka Gakkai Spirit of Striving in Faith with the Conviction That "Hardships Are Badges of Honour," Bodhisattvas Voluntarily Appear in the Most Challenging Places, The Daibyaku Renge July 2023, SGI Newsletter No. 11490, March 8th 2024.

* In the "Former Affairs of the Bodhisattva Medicine King" (23rd) chapter of the Lotus Sutra, the Buddha states: "After I have passed into extinction, in the last five-hundred-year period you must spread it [the Lotus Sutral abroad widely throughout Jambudvipa [the entire world] and never allow it to be cut off" (LSOC23, 330).

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
KUROGANE WA KITAI UTEBA TSURUGI TO NARU KENSHO WA MERI SHITE KOKOROMIRU NARUBESHI

New Gosho Zenshu page 1288
Gosho Zenshu page 958

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

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

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