Daily Gosho & Encouragement both using official translations, all quotes are from either Nichiren Daishonin or President Ikeda unless otherwise stated...
Friday, March 14th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
I entrust you with the propagation of Buddhism in your province. It is stated that "the seeds of Buddhahood sprout as a result of conditions, and for this reason they preach the single vehicle."
(The Properties of Rice
- WND-1, page 1117)
Selection Source: Kyō no Hosshin
Seikyo Shinbun
- Friday, March 14th, 2025
Saturday, March 15th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"I once wrote in a poem that the life state of bodhisattvas emerging from the earth constitutes the 'fundamental roots' of our humanity.
"I meant that we should not limit our search for our roots to our ethnic origins, but rather extend it to the origins of our shared humanity, our common 'home.' There we will discover our 'primordial roots' in the life state of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth.* As I wrote in these lines of poetry:
"Continue your uncompromising quest
for your truer roots
in the deepest regions of your lives.
Seek out the primordial 'roots' of humankind.
Then you will without fail discover
the stately expanse of jiyu
unfolding in the depths of your life.**
"There is no discrimination or exclusion in the realm of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth. The Daishonin says: 'Of all the thousand plants and ten thousand trees in the world, there are none that are not in essence bodhisattvas who emerge from the earth' (OTT, 119). The bonds of life unite all people and things. The primordial life possessed by all people —which the Daishonin describes as 'the utmost depth of the essential nature of phenomena and the ultimate of profound Buddhist principles' (WND-2, 843)—is the true identity of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth."
Buddhism of the Sun, A Noble Life Deicated to Fulfilling the Mission of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, The Roots of Humanity, SGI Newsletter No. 11515, April 11th, 2024 translation released May, 2024.
* In 1992, the Los Angeles Riots broke out amid a backdrop of rising racial tensions. On January 27th, 1993, President Ikeda dedicated this poem, titled "The Sun of Jiyu over a New Land," to the SGI-USA members. In it, taking up the theme of bodhisattvas "emerging from the earth" (Jpn. jiyu) described in the Lotus Sutra, he presents an inspiring vision for building a society that will serve as a model for creative coexistence.
** Daisaku Ikeda, "The Sun of Jiyu over a New Land," in Journey of Life: Selected Poems of Daisaku Ikeda (London: I. B. Tauris, 2014), p. 241.
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
SONO KUNI NO BUPPŌ WA KIHEN NI MAKASE TATEMATSURI SŌRŌ ZO. "BUSSHU WA EN YORI OKORU. KONO YUE NI ICHIJŌ O TOKU" NARU BESHI.
(New Gosho Zenshu page 1953,
Gosho Zenshu page 1467)
And the Japanese kanji for
Tsukizuki Hibini
on Seikyo Shinbun's web-site
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