Shimbun and more.
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin states,
"Strengthen your faith day by day and month after month."*
By setting fresh new goals
let's make today a day of victory!
*"On Persecutions Befalling the Sage" - WND-I, page 997
**Therefore, each day we return to the point of departure at life's
wellspring, and from there we begin to advance anew. Doing gongyo and
chanting daimoku is the secret teaching for returning to the world of kuon
ganjo. Every day, we set forth from kuon ganjo. Faith to continually set
forth from this eternal prime point is faith of the Buddhism of the true
cause. (Lectures on the "Expedient Means" and "Life Span" Chapters of the
Lotus Sutra by Daisaku Ikeda, Volume 3)
Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Hence, although the people might 'take sticks of wood or
tiles and stones and beat and pelt him' (chapter twenty),
he nevertheless persisted in his effort, 'preaching to
them forcefully, though it angered them (Words and
Phrases, volume ten), an action that arose from his
feelings of pity and compassion. Since we are taught that
the Buddha mind is a mind of great pity and compassion, a
bow of obeisance is made in acknowledgement of this pity
and compassion."
(Ongi kuden - Gosho Zenshu, page 769, The Record of the Orally Transmitted
Teachings, page 164) Selection source:
"Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, October 15th, 2008
Thursday, October 16th, 2008
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"As the Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) once wrote: 'Let us
proclaim peace each day, wherever we are and wherever we go, until we can
generate a movement towards creating peace.'"
SGI Newsletter No. 7647, The New Human Revolution--Vol. 21: Chap. 4,
Jewelled Crown 46, translated Oct 14th, 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 ---
"TSUKIZUKI HIBI NI
TSUYORI TAMAE"
IYOIYO NO KETSUI DE
KYO O KATE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SUDENI JOMOKU GASHAKU O MOTTE CHOCHAKU SUREDOMO
NIGODOKUSHI SURUWA JIHI YORI OKORERI BUSSHIN TOWA
DAIJIHISHIN KORENARI TO TOKARETAREBA RAIHAI NO JUSHO WA
JIHI NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 769)
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