Gosho Passage - May 25, 2026

[goshoqu...@gmail.com]

"If you seek enlightenment outside yourself, then your performing even ten thousand practices and ten thousand good deeds will be in vain. It is like the case of a poor man who spends night and day counting his neighbor’s wealth but gains not even half a coin. That is why the T’ien-t’ai school’s commentary states, “Unless one perceives the nature of one’s life, one cannot eradicate one’s grave offenses.” This passage implies that, unless one perceives the nature of one’s life, one’s practice will become an endless, painful austerity."



Dal Gosho "On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime" (Raccolta degli scritti di Nichiren Daishonin, volume I, pag. 3-4)