Daily Guidance

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----

"As the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) once wrote: 'Let us proclaim peace each day, wherever we are and wherever we go, until we can generate a movement towards creating peace.'"

--- DAILY GOSHO ---

"Hence, although the people might 'take sticks of wood or tiles and stones and beat and pelt him' (chapter twenty), he nevertheless persisted in his effort, 'preaching to them forcefully, though it angered them (Words and Phrases, volume ten), an action that arose from his feelings of pity and compassion. Since we are taught that the Buddha mind is a mind of great pity and compassion, a bow of obeisance is made in acknowledgement of this pity and compassion."
(Ongi kuden - Gosho Zenshu, page 769, The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 164)