Daily Gosho 17.3.2026 Tuesday + Daily Encouragement 18.3. Wednesday

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

Tuesday, March 17th, 2026
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"Exert yourself in the two ways of practice and study.  Without practice and study, there can be no Buddhism. You must not only persevere yourself; you must also teach others. Both practice and study arise from faith. Teach others to the best of your ability, even if it is only a single sentence or phrase."

("The True Aspect of All Phenomena"

WND-l page 386)

Source:  Kayo GOSHO TIME

Seikyo Newspaper: March 17th, 2026

Wednesday, March 18th, 2026
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---

"There is one more aspect of Bodhisattva Never Disparaging's actions to which I would like to draw your attention.

"While the people he addressed reacted with hostility, they also couldn't help but recognize the truth of his words. Put another way, Bodhisattva Never Disparaging conveyed the essence of Buddhism by connecting with each person's life.

"The Teacher of the Law" (10th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra states that one who can "secretly expound the Lotus Sutra to one person" is the envoy of the Thus Come One [the Buddha], carrying out the work of the Thus Come One (cf. LSOC10, 200).*

"Bodhisattva Never Disparaging did his best to engage and to share Buddhism with the person in front of him. Year after year, he tirelessly reached out and spoke with one individual after another. That is how he spread the "24-character Lotus Sutra"-that is, the Lotus Sutra's humanistic philosophy of respect for all people."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [57] Creating a Century of Humanism in Which All Can Shine—Part 1 [0f 5], Carrying Out the Practice of Bodhisattva Never Disparaging on a Global Scale, The importance of One-on-One  Dialogue, January 2020 issue of the Daibyaku-renge translation released September 2020

* The Teacher of the Law" (10th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra states: "If one of these good men or women in the time after I have passed into extinction is able to secretly expound the Lotus Sutra to one person, even one phrase of it, then you should know that they are the envoy of the Thus Come One [the Buddha]. They have been dispatched by the Thus Come One and carries out the Thus Come One's work" (LSOC10, 200).

-- KYO NO GOSHO -- 

GYO-GAKU NO NIDO O HAGEMI SOROBESHI, GYO-GAKU TAENABA BUPPO WA ARU BEKARAZU, WARE MO ITASHI HITO O MO KYOKE SORAE, GYO-GAKU WA SHINJIN YORI OKORU BEKU SORO, CHIKARA ARABA ICHIMON IKKU NARI TOMO KATARASE TAMO BESHI.

New Gosho Zenshu page 1793,  

Gosho Zenshu page 1361 

And the Japanese kanji for 

Tsukizuki Hibini 

on Seikyo Shinbun's web-site

https://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/

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