Daily Guidance

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----

"Let me share some passages from Nichiren Daishonin's writings with you. First, the Daishonin states: 'It is an undeniable fact that fire can at once reduce even a thousand-year-old field of pampas grass to ashes, and that the merit one has formed over a hundred years can be destroyed with a singleword' (WND-1, 636).
We must remember never to give up, particularly when we are facing difficulties."The Daishonin teaches: 'If one draws near to those who slander the Law, the good roots that one has gained through religious practice will be totally destroyed and one will fall with the slanderers into hell' (WND-2, 1025).
There are those who outwardly profess faith but are actually slandering the Law. We should take care not to slander the Law, as this will only erase all the good causes we have worked so hard to accumulate."

--- DAILY GOSHO ---

"Tell them to be prepared for the worst, and not to expect good times, but take the bad times for granted."
(On Persecutions Befalling the Sage - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,page 998)