Daily Guidance

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----

"“Both practice and study arise from faith” (WND, 386), continues NichirenDaishonin in the same gosho "The True Aspect of All Phenomena." When faith deepens, practice and study progress, and when practice and study progress, faith deepens. Through this chain of cause and effect, our lives are filled with benefit that can vanquish the negative and bring forth the positive; we are assured of true happiness and able to accumulate everlasting good fortune." Disregarding the two ways of practice and study is like flying an airplane with no idea of your course, altitude, or destination, and no means of refuelling. Without fail, you will stray and eventually lose speed. If you encounter the slightest turbulence, you will come crashing down from the skies in a flash. Those who persevere in the two ways of practice and study, however, walk the path of supreme victors in life; they are people who will never regress in faith and will triumph resolutely in all struggles."

--- DAILY GOSHO ---

"Each of you should summon up the courage of a lion kingand never succumb to threats from anyone. The lion kingfears no other beast, nor do its cubs."
(On Persecutions Befalling the Sage - The Writings ofNichiren Daishonin, page 997)