GOSHO

are the writings of the Daishonin, our founder. In Nichiren Shoshu, the Gosho writings are upheld as exemplary instructions - a mirror of faith - by which to devote ourselves to faith, practice, and study. We can gain a correct understanding of these writings only by following the directions of our High Priest, who has received the transmission of the essential principles of true Buddhism.

ATTENDING

OKO CEREMONY

on the second Sunday of every month. In the Oko Ceremony, after the Kenzen offering, the recitation of the sutra, and the chanting of Daimoku, the priest presents a sermon, based on the Gosho. The Oko lecture is profoundly significant. Therefore, it is essential for us to attend this sermon together with our families each month without fail and offer our sincerest gratitude to the Three Treasures.

Monthly Gosho Quote

“Three Tripitaka Masters Pray for Rain” Apr. 2025

(“Sansanzo ki’u no koto”)

The best way to attain Buddhahood is to meet good influences. How useful
could our shallow intelligence be for attaining Buddhahood? We must seek
out good influences even if we have sufficient wisdom to distinguish hot from
cold. However, encountering a good influence is the most challenging
feat. Therefore, the Buddha compared the rarity of meeting a good Buddhist
influence to a one-eyed turtle finding a piece of driftwood [with a perfect
hollow] for it to fit in or to the difficulty of dropping a piece of thread from the
Brahma Heaven and passing it through the eye of a needle on the earth.
Furthermore, in the evil age of the Latter Day of the Law, there are more evil
influences than the dust particles that make up the entire world, while the
number of good influences is fewer than the specks of dirt that one can place
on a fingernail. (Gosho, p. 873)

三三藏祈雨事

成佛之道無過於善知識。吾之智慧作用為何。若僅知冷熱之智慧,則
善知識重要。然值善知識乃第一難事也。故佛譬值善知識之事,如一
眼龜之入浮木,自梵天降線入大地之針眼。而於末代惡世,惡知識較
大地微塵猶多,善知識比爪上之土還少。(御書873頁)

三三蔵祈雨事

仏になるみちは善知識にはす(過)ぎず。わがちゑ(智慧)なににかせん
。たゞあつ(熱)きつめ(冷)たきばかりの智慧だにも候ならば、善知識
たひせち(大切)なり。而るに善知識に値ふ事が第一のかた(難)き事な
り。されば仏は善知識に値ふ事をば一眼のかめ(亀)の浮木(うきぎ)に
入り、梵天よりいと(糸)を下げて大地のはり(針)のめ(目)に入(い
)るにたとへ給へり。而るに末代悪世には悪知識は大地微塵よりもをほ(
多)く、善知識は爪上の土よりもすくなし。 (御書873頁)