Daily Guidance

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----

"The Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko (1856-1916) wrote:
"'The sprouts of happiness reside in each person's heart. If those sprouts are fostered, how big they will eventually grow! The source of life lies within me. I have no reason to long for some distant heaven!'
"Happiness doesn't come from others. It's something that we must each build within our own lives. There is no need for us to compare ourselves to others or envy them."

--- DAILY GOSHO ---

"The merciful sun [of true Buddhism] that spreads in the Latter Day illuminates the darkness of the extreme evil of slander, and the mystic wind of the Juryo chapter of kuon blows away the gate of the provisional teaching that the Buddha achieved supreme enlightenment for the first time in Gaya."
(Nikko Shonin's Twenty-Six Admonitions - Gosho Zenshu, page 1617)