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Friday, July 18th, 2008
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Making a firm commitment to resolutely protecting others
and taking action for the sake of improving society
-- is the most important point for our victory.
And is the most fundamental tenet of Buddhism.
Let's constantly be on our guard
that our thoughts and actions are never arrogant
or something we think or do out of force of habit.
Friday, July 18th, 2008
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"In light of this, it is clear that those who now believe in the Lotus Sutra
will gather fortune from ten thousand miles away."
(New Year's Gosho - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1137)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, July 18th, 2008
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"I would like to share with you a passage from the Gosho. Among the
Daishonin's disciples was a woman who is referred to in his writings as 'the
lay nun, the wife of the lord of the manor.' Despite all she owed the
Daishonin, when he was exiled to Sado, she abruptly abandoned her faith.
Writing about the lay nun to another disciple, the Daishonin remarks: 'I
pity her because, having forgotten her debt of gratitude, she will fall into
the evil paths in her next existence.... I am praying that I may somehow be
able to save her from that fate' (WND-1, 652). This famous passage is
pervaded with the Daishonin's wish to guide this erstwhile follower and
somehow prevent her from falling into a wretched state of life. This is my
spirit, too. If people who have no gratitude proliferate in the
organisation, the Gakkai's future will be in peril.
SGI Newsletter No. 7583, 19th SOKA GAKKAI HEADQUARTERS LEADERS
MEETING--PART 2 [OF 2] , The Future Depends upon the Disciples, on June
18th, 2008, from the June 23rd, 2008, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun.
Translated July 15th, 2008
* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends and Daily Gosho is available by
clicking on Seikyo Shimbun's web-site address at
http://www.sokanet.jp/sg/sn/member_support_top.html
---WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
MINSHU GENGO NO "JIKAKU"
SHAKAI HENKAKU NO "KODO"
KORE GA SHORI NO KANAME DA.
BUPPO NO HOSOKU DA.
GOMAN TO DASEI O HAISE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HOKEKYO O SHINZURU HITO WA SAIWAI O BANRI NO SOTO YORI
ATSUMUBESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1492)
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