Tuesday, August 12th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage."
Wednesday, August 13th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
Of course, chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and sharing Nichiren Buddhism bring you benefits and enable you to overcome financial difficulties. But to attain Buddhahood in this lifetime—that is, to establish a life state of absolute happiness—you must persevere in faith throughout your life. Continuing is the key to faith.
"Being ruled by arrogance, however, will destroy your faith. That's why the Daishonin states: 'If you wish to attain Buddhahood, you have only to lower the banner of your arrogance, cast aside the staff of your anger, and devote yourself exclusively to the one vehicle of the Lotus Sutra [Nam-myoho-renge-kyo]. Worldly fame and profit are mere baubles of your present existence, and arrogance and prejudice are ties that will fetter you in the next one' (WND-1, 58–59)."
ASAKI O SATTE FUKAKI NI TSUKU WA JOBU NO KOKORO NARI
And the Japanese kanji for
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