Monday, March 10, 2008

Daily Guidance

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The thorny path of kosen-rufu can only be opened by fearless individuals willing to dedicate their lives and pour their hearts into the effort, no matter how severe the circumstances might be.... In the light of the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren Daishonin's writings, those who dedicate their lives to Buddhism will attain an eternally sublime life-state of absolute happiness. There is no sacrifice in Buddhism."

--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"... or one may simply chant the daimoku, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, only once aday, or chant it only once in the course of a lifetime; or hear someone else chant it only once in a lifetime and rejoice in the hearing, or rejoice in hearing the voice of someone else rejoice in the hearing, and so on in this manner to the fiftieth hearer."
(The Recitation of the "Expedient Means" and "Life Span" Chapters - TheWritings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 68)

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