Daily Guidance

---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----

"In general, without constructive interactions with others, human beings tend to take the easiest path and drift in a negative direction, ceasing to challenge themselves. To break through these tendencies, we need to maintain an active seeking spirit and learn from a mentor. Mentors provide the inspiration we need to resist stagnation and elevate ourselves. Nothing could be more unfortunate than to lack that kind of inspiration..
"As the Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881-1936) warned: 'A heart closed to inspiration shrivels or atrophies.'"

--- DAILY GOSHO ---

It must be ties of karma from the distant past that have destined you to become my disciple at a time like this. Shakyamuni and Many Treasures certainly realized this truth. The sutra's statement, "Those persons who had heard the Law dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers,"13 cannot be false in any way.
(Gosho: The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life, Writings of NichirenDaishonin, Vol 1, Page 217)