Monday, January 28, 2008

Daily Guidance

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"I have triumphed in every struggle for kosen-rufu. Buddhism teaches the importance of being victorious. I have striven to bring joy to my mentor and made trailblazing efforts to realize his vision. This is a natural course for a true disciple."

--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Hence the storehouse of the eighty-four thousand teachings represents a day-to-day record of one's own existence. This storehouse of the eighty thousand teachings is embodied in and contained within one's own mind. To use the mind to suppose that the Buddha or the Law or the pure land exist somewhere other than in one's own self and to seek them elsewhere is a delusion. When the mind encounters good or bad causes, it creates and puts forth the aspects of good and bad."
(The Unanimous Declaration by the Buddhas of the Three Existences regarding the Classification of the Teachings and Which Are to Be Abandoned and Which Upheld - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 2, page 843)

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