Monday, July 21st, 2025
-- DAILY GOSHO --
"Whether you chant the Buddha's name, recite the sutra, or merely offer flowers and incense, all your virtuous acts will implant benefits and roots of goodness in your life. With this conviction you should strive in faith."
(On Attaining Buddhahood
in This Lifetime
- WND, Vol. 1, page 4)
Selection Source:
Selection Source:
Learning the Soka Spirit
in the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin
-- From Ikeda Sensei's lectures,
Seikyo Newspaper, July 21st, 2025
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"We cannot create happiness with a passive attitude, waiting for others to do things for us. With that attitude, if no one helps us, we will end up feeling sorry for ourselves and grow to hate and resent others. This is a cause of unhappiness.
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2025
--- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"We cannot create happiness with a passive attitude, waiting for others to do things for us. With that attitude, if no one helps us, we will end up feeling sorry for ourselves and grow to hate and resent others. This is a cause of unhappiness.
"Nichiren Buddhism is a philosophy of self-reliance, not dependence on others. It empowers us to stand up on our own and open a new way forwards. Doesn't it teach that by changing ourselves, we can change our environment and our society?
New Human Revolution, Victory Isles, 4th Chapter, Vol. 28, Victory Isles 10, SGI Newsletter 11439, translation released Jan. 11th 2024.
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
HOTOKE NO MINA O TONAE KYOGAN O YOMI HANA O CHIRASHI KO O HINERU MADEMO MINA WAGA ICHINEN NI OSAMETARU KUDOKU ZENKON NARI TO SHINJIN O TORU BEKINARI
New Gosho Zenshu page 317
Gosho Zenshu page 383
And the Japanese kanji for
HOTOKE NO MINA O TONAE KYOGAN O YOMI HANA O CHIRASHI KO O HINERU MADEMO MINA WAGA ICHINEN NI OSAMETARU KUDOKU ZENKON NARI TO SHINJIN O TORU BEKINARI
New Gosho Zenshu page 317
Gosho Zenshu page 383
And the Japanese kanji for
Tsukizuki Hibini
-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo(Gillingham)" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sgi-tomyfriends-wagatomogillingham+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sgi-tomyfriends-wagatomogillingham/b51e8926-b8bd-4138-a25a-6c2f5188c3dfn%40googlegroups.com.
