Daily Guidance

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----

"The lifeblood of democracy, the power to propel humanistic education--all this and more are found in courageous, forthright dialogue. The avoidance of dialogue, the sly and cowardly encroachments of silence in its various forms--these will only deepen the darkness that envelops our contemporary world.
"Now more than ever, it is vital that we spread throughout the world the sparkling spring winds of dialogue -- dialogue that enables all members of the human family to understand and appreciate each other, dialogue to learn from our diversity, dialogue that reveals hopeful goals to the new generation, dialogue that inspires the courage we need to move forwards together."

--- DAILY GOSHO ---

"Shakyamuni Buddha, the lord of teachings, stated that, if anyone should abuse or curse someone who is spreading the Lotus Sutra in the evil world of the latter age, that person would be guilty of an offence that is a hundred, thousand, ten thousand, million times greater than if he had been an enemy of the Buddha for the space of an entire kalpa."
(The Selection of the Time - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Volume 1,page 551)