Daily Guidance

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----

"In November of 2006, I met with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) director general and Nobel Peace laureate Dr. Mohamed El Baradei. I would like to share with you a remark he made at that time that left a deep impression on me: 'We continue to emphasise our differences instead of what we have in common. We continue to talk about "us" versus "them."' The attitude of which he speaks is not productive, to say the least. We need to abandon this confrontational approach and seek out what we share in commonas human beings by discovering ways to use our differences and diversity to learn from each other and enrich ourselves. I believe that this is the most urgent issue our world now faces, and one that we must treat with the greatest seriousness."

--- DAILY GOSHO ---

"The more gold is heated in the flames, the brighter will be its colour; the more a sword is whetted, the sharper it will become. And the more one praises the blessings of the Lotus Sutra, the more one's own blessings willi ncrease."
(The Blessings of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 673)