Saturday, August 05, 2006

Daily Guidance

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
Faith in the Mystic Law is an eternal struggle between the Buddha and devilish functions. We should thus engrave these words of the Daishonin deeply in our hearts :"Strengthen your faith day by day and month after month. Should you slacken in your resolve even a bit, devils will take advantage" (WND, 997). Those who strive in faith with unwavering resolve are able to ward off devilish influences. They can see through and vanquish the devilish functions that take root in the hearts of those around them. That’s why we need to strengthen our faith "day by day and month after month."

--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"In the light of the above points, this shows, my followers, that you had better cut short your sleep by night and curtail your leisure by day, and ponder this! You must not spend your lives in vain and regret it for ten thousand years to come."
(The Problem to Be Pondered Night and Day - The Writingsof Nichiren Daishonin, page 622)

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