New Year's Gosho
(Monthly Gosho Passage January 2010)
Misfortune comes from one's mouth and ruins him, but fortune comes from one's mind and makes him worthy of respect. The sincerity of making offerings to the Lotus Sutra at the beginning of the New Year is like flowers blooming from trees, a lotus unfolding in a pond, sandalwood blossoming on the Snow mountains, or the moon beginning to rise.
(Gosho, p.1551; MW Vol.1, p.271)