Daily Gosho

"My resolution is now immovable. Determined to endure any hardship, I have fulfilled the

"You must be firmly resolved. Do not begrudge your fief; do not think of your wife and children.

"You have associated with a friend in the orchid room and have become as straight as mugwort

"Even those who are free from illness cannot escape the transience of life, but you are not yet

"At present the entire body of the Honorable Abutsu is composed of the five elements of earth,

"I alone first chanted Nam-myoho-renge-kyo in Japan. In the more than twenty years since the

"Thus, encountering this sutra is as rare as the blossoming of the udumbara flower, which occurs

"Now surely the peace of the world and the stability of the nation are sought by both ruler and

"In the Vimalakirti Sutra we read: “Vimalakirti once more questioned Manjushri, saying, '

"If you seek enlightenment outside yourself, then your performing even ten thousand practices

"[...] the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo, the heart of the essential teaching of the Lotus

"though no chapter of the Lotus Sutra is negligible, among the entire twenty-eight chapters, the

"The more the government authorities rage against me, the greater is my joy. For instance, there

"The fourth volume of the Lotus Sutra states, “If there were a person who spoke only one word to

"The blessings that you, the Honorable Joren, acquire through your faith in the Lotus Sutra will

"Life flashes by in but a moment. No matter how many terrible enemies you may encounter, banish

"The Lotus Sutra is both the teaching of the Buddha and the embodiment of the Buddha wisdom. If

"Life is the foremost of all treasures. It is expounded that even the treasures of the entire

"The Lotus Sutra is the king of sutras, true and correct in both word and principle. Its words

"Concerning prayer, there are conspicuous prayer and conspicuous response, conspicuous prayer

"You should not have the slightest fear in your heart. It is lack of courage that prevents one

"One may ask why the results of these vows should be so long in appearing. And yet, though one

"There are two ways of perceiving the three thousand realms in a single moment of life. One is

"Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds:

"Never seek this Gohonzon outside yourself. The Gohonzon exists only within the mortal flesh of

"The Great Teacher Miao-lo says: “You should understand that one's life and its environment

"With regard to the debt of gratitude owed to our parents, our father may be likened to heaven

"The sutra states, “The wisdom of the Buddhas is infinitely profound and immeasurable.” [...]

"Question: If that is so, then why do you not take Shakyamuni as your object of devotion, but

"The “Expedient Means” chapter in volume one of the Lotus Sutra states, “The Buddhas wish to