Daily Guidance

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----

"The epilogue to War and Peace highlights the hopes of the main characters as they seek to live well and build happy families and a healthy society following the Russian victory over Napoleon's invasion.

How to build a happy family and society is a question of first and last importance. I found this passage to be especially meaningful: 'My idea is just that if vicious people unite together into a power, then honest folk must do the same.' This call for honest people to come together to fight injustice may seem obvious enough, but it is very important.

Another passage from the novel states:'Let those who love what is right join hands, and let us have but one banner -- the banner of action and virtue.'

I hope you will all advance withthe pride and confidence that our Soka network is a united gathering ofgood--hearted people like that which Tolstoy wished and longed for."

--- DAILY GOSHO ---

"This mind that is beyond comprehension constitutes the core teaching of thesutras and treatises. And one who is awake to and understands this mind is called a Thus Come One."
(The Unanimous Declaration by the Buddhas of the Three Existences regardingthe Classification of the Teachings and Which Are to Be Abandoned and Which Upheld - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 2, page 844)