15th Aug. Friday, 2025 Daily Gosho + 16th Aug. Saturday Daily Encouragement

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

Friday, August 15th, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"This I will state. Let the gods forsake me. Let all persecutions assail me. Still I will give my life for the sake of the Law."

(The Opening of the Eyes 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 280)
Selection Source: Kyo no Hosshin, 

Seikyo Newspaper, August 15th, 2025

Saturday, August 16th, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---

"In 1975, 30 years after the horror of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I visited Hiroshima and presented a proposal calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons, which threaten the very survival of the human race. In it, I declared: 'The social role and mission of the Soka Gakkai is to engage in a spiritual struggle, arising from the innermost depths of our beings, against such external forces as violence and political and economic oppression that violate the dignity of human life.'*

"This spiritual struggle against the devilish nature of authority is a hands-on effort we must wage together with the people.

"My proposal continued: 'The task of trying to get our message to each individual is, at a glance, far from glamorous; it requires steadfast, tenacious efforts. Great endeavours always take time. The cultivating work of realising our highest potential and helping others do the same through one-to-one inspiration cannot be achieved overnight. But that is precisely why those efforts will result in people's lives shining with indestructible brilliance, undimmed by the harshest trials.'

"This 'one-to-one inspiration' and 'the cultivating work of realising our full potential and helping others do the same' could be called the very essence of our practice as Bodhisattvas of the Earth.

"Mr. Toda taught that the only way to change society is to change people. Society will only improve if people improve, he said. The global spread of our groundbreaking movement for human revolution will elevate the life state of all humanity."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [79] Advancing on the Great path of Kosen-rufu with Unwavering Lifelong Courage, Inspiring Others with Our Lives, October 2021, Daibyaku-renge, translation released June 2022.

*  From a speech at a Soka Gakkai Headquarters general meeting held in Hiroshima on November 9th, 1975. In it, President Ikeda urged members to spread throughout the world the message of Josei Toda's "Declaration Calling for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons," as a fundamental guide for the elimination of such weapons of mass destruction. He also proposed holding meetings of international leaders on this issue and ensuring monitoring of nuclear technology for peaceful purposes.

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
SENZURU TOKORO WA TEN MO SUTE TAMAE SHONAN NIMO AE SHINMYO O GO TO SEN

New Gosho Zenshu page 114
Gosho Zenshu page 232

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

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

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