Sensei reads this on every new year 's day:
"You must not spend your lives in vain and regret it for ten thousand years to come." (WND-1,622, The Problem to be Pondered Day and Night)
"Life is limited; we must not begrudge it. What we should ultimately aspire to is the Buddha land." (WND-1, 214, Aspiration for the Buddha Land)
"Could there ever be a more wonderful story, in all future times, than your own?" (WND -1, 499, Letter to the Brothers)
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"We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exist in our own heart.... Misfortune comes from one's mouth and ruins one, but fortune comes from one's heart and makes one worthy of respect." New Year's Gosho.
