Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)

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** We have a new blog dedicated to Quotes from the Gosho: https://nichiren.home.blog ** Life is busy. Yet, we need our daily, spiritual nourishment. Nichiren Buddhists read Gosho but how do you do that while handling life's busy work? What if you could listen to someone reading the Gosho as you take a long commute to work or, when you are doing the dishes and laundry? This is what the channel is all about. It is 3 ladies (and guests) reading the Gosho, as it was meant to be. We hope you enjoy it! Web: nichiren.home.blog YouTube: www.youtube.com/@TheIgnorantTrio Podcast: gosho.nichiren.uk

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040 The True Aspect of All Phenomena

Apr 03 2024 20 mins

Nichiren Daishonin wrote this letter to Sairen-bō Nichijō while at Ichinosawa on Sado Island in the fifth month of the tenth year of Bun’ei (1273). For some reason Sairen-bō was also in exile on Sado, where he had been converted by the Daishonin in the second month of 1272. A former Tendai priest, he already knew something about “the true aspect of all phenomena”; it was a

077 The Three Obstacles and Four Devils

Mar 24 2024 14 mins

This letter was written to Hyōe no Sakan Munenaga, the younger of the two Ikegami brothers. Though it was originally thought to have been written in the first year of Kenji (1275), it is now apparent that it was written in 1277. Munenaga is thought to have taken faith in the Daishonin’s teaching around 1256, shortly after his elder brother Munenaka. Both were officials in the Ka

155 Reply to the Lay Nun Nichigon

Mar 10 2024 1 mins

This letter was written at Minobu in the eleventh month of the third year of Kōan (1280) in response to a petition from the lay nun Nichigon. She is thought to have been either a relative of the lay priest Takahashi, a central figure among the believers in Fuji District of Suruga Province, or the mother of Nichigen, a priest of Jissō-ji temple in the same province who converted t

026 Letter to Priest Nichirō in Prison

Mar 06 2024 3 mins

On the ninth day of the tenth month, 1271, on the eve of his departure for Sado Island, Nichiren Daishonin wrote this letter to Chikugo-bō Nichirō, who was later to become one of his six senior disciples. Nichirō and his father had converted to the Daishonin’s teachings in 1254, and Nichirō had received the tonsure under the supervision of his uncle Nisshō, also later to bec

008 Questions and Answers about Embracing the Lotus Sutra (Part 2 of 2)

Feb 01 2024 27 mins

Although there are different opinions concerning the date of this letter, it is generally accepted that Nichiren Daishonin wrote it in the third month of the third year of Kōchō (1263), shortly after he had been pardoned and had returned to Kamakura following two years of exile on the Izu Peninsula. The Daishonin was then forty-two years old. As the title indicates, this work di

008 Questions and Answers about Embracing the Lotus Sutra (Part 1 of 2)

Jan 19 2024 16 mins

Although there are different opinions concerning the date of this letter, it is generally accepted that Nichiren Daishonin wrote it in the third month of the third year of Kōchō (1263), shortly after he had been pardoned and had returned to Kamakura following two years of exile on the Izu Peninsula. The Daishonin was then forty-two years old. As the title indicates, this work dis

024 Lessening One's Karmic Retribution

Jan 11 2024 7 mins

Nichiren Daishonin wrote this letter on the fifth day of the tenth month, 1271, only three weeks after he was nearly executed at Tatsunokuchi. It was sent to three of his leading disciples: Ōta Saemon, a government official, the lay priest Soya Kyōshin, and the Dharma Bridge Kanabara. One of them may have visited the Daishonin while he was being held in detention for exile at the

025 Banishment to Sado

Jan 04 2024 3 mins

Nichiren Daishonin wrote this letter in the tenth month of the eighth year of Bun’ei (1271), just before he left for his exile on Sado Island. At that time, he was being held at the mainland residence of Homma Rokurō Saemon, the deputy constable of Sado. The Daishonin wrote the letter to an acquaintance at Seichō-ji temple in Awa Province, possibly a priest named Enjō-bō. Ex

095 The Eight Winds

Dec 15 2023 9 mins

Background This is one of the many letters Nichiren Daishonin wrote to Shijō Kingo, his loyal disciple in Kamakura. Because of Kingo’s devotion to the Daishonin’s teachings, he was ordered in 1276 to move from his estate near Kamakura to the distant province of Echigo. The letter is not dated, but it is known to have been written in the third year of Kenji (1277). The concept

029 The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life

Dec 07 2023 13 mins

This letter, dated the eleventh day of the second month in 1272, was sent by Nichiren Daishonin to Sairen-bō Nichijō, a former Tendai priest who, for reasons that are unclear, was also living in exile on Sado Island. Details about Sairen-bō are scarce, but it is known that he was originally from Kyoto, and that he had studied at Mount Hiei, the seat of the Tendai school, before