Daily Guidance

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----

"During gongyo, we recite portions of the Lotus Sutra. The sutra unfolds with the assembly shifting from Eagle Peak to the Ceremony in the Air and then back to Eagle Peak. In other words, it moves from the real world to the realm of enlightenment and back to the real world once more. Our morning and evening gongyo enable us to re-enact this grand drama of the Lotus Sutra in our own lives and live each day with energy and vitality. We can bring forth the power of our innate Buddhahood to confidently challenge our hardships and obstacles in our day-to-day lives and triumph over them. Our lives come to brim with this immense power. This is what it means to attain Buddhahood in our present form."
"This lofty state of Buddhahood shines with the infinite brilliance of unshakable faith that has been forged through vanquishing all kinds of obstacles and devilish functions. It is a state of glorious and unending victory -- the victory of having transcended and triumphed over the sufferings of illness, aging, and death. And this towering state of being endures eternally even after we have passed away. Our lives merge with the universe and, in a vast and boundless state, continue on with freedom, joy, and delight. It is a state in which both life and death are joyful. Being able to attain such a state of life is the purpose of our faith and practice."

--- DAILY GOSHO ---

"Rather than offering up ten thousand prayers for remedy, it would be better simply to outlaw this one evil."
(On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land - TheWritings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 15)