Wed. Feb. 26th 2025 Daily Gosho, Wed. Feb. 26th Daily Encouragement and Thurs. Feb. 27th Daily Encouragement

* There was a mishap in the layout in yesterday's edition so we are sending that again along with today's edition of Daily Encouragement. Our apologies!... 

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

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"The Buddha surely considers anyone in this world who embraces the Lotus Sutra, whether lay man or woman, monk or nun, to be the lord of all living beings."

(The Unity of 

  Husband and Wife 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 463)
Selection Source: Tokon Talk, 

Seikyo Newspaper, Feb. 26th, 2025

Wednesday, February 26th, 2025

--- 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, 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.

Thursday, February 27th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"Our daily actions are important. Our 'behaviour as a human being' (WND-1, 852) is the essence of what the Buddha aimed to teach us through his own example.

"As I noted in my second lecture at Harvard University,* a Buddhist scripture describes Shakyamuni as meeting others with joy, approaching them with a bright and welcoming countenance.' Let us also pay close attention to our daily behaviour, greeting people cheerfully and speaking in a friendly manner."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [86] Expanding Our Inspiring Network of Human Harmony in the "Treasure Realms" of Our Mission, "Show Utmost Courtesy and Patience", June 2022 issue of Daibyakurenge, translation released March 2023 

* "Mahayana Buddhism and Twenty-First-Century Civilisation," delivered on September 24, 1993.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
KONO YONONAKA NO NANNYO SONI WA KIRAU BEKARAZU HOKEKYO O TAMOTASE TAMO HITO WA ISSAI SHUJO NO SHU TO KOSO HOTOKE WA GORAN SORORAME

New Gosho Zenshu page 1542
Gosho Zenshu page 1134

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

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

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