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Thursday, February 19th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
A person of true faith is someone who makes an unceasing effort
to improve him or herself.
Day by day and month after month,
let's continually challenge our weaknesses and win!
That is how we will be crowned with happiness.
* "Strengthen your faith day by day and month after month. Should you
slacken in your resolve even a bit, devils will take advantage."
- "On Persecutions Befalling the Sage", WND-I, page 997
Thursday, February 19th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Consider this: if one cannot cross a moat ten feet wide,
can one cross a moat that is twenty or thirty feet wide?
If you cannot bring about rainfall, which is easy, how can
you attain rebirth in the pure land and achieve Buddhahood, which is
difficult?"
(The Letter to Petition from Yorimoto - The Writings of
Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 808) Selection source:
"Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, February 19th, 2009
Friday, February 20th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In Buddhism, the world we live in is called the 'saha world.' 'Saha' means
'endurance.' We all struggle with various problems and difficulties that
press in upon us. What is crucial is whether we can endure and triumph over
them. Life is a struggle for which we need an invincible spirit.
"Nichiren Daishonin, too, placed utmost importance on an invincible spirit.
Indeed, we can see this spirit burning brightly throughout his writings.
"In 'On Prolonging One's Life Span,' he says in praise of his loyal disciple
Shijo Kingo, an exemplary predecessor of our men's division members: 'He is
a man who never gives in to defeat and who greatly values his friends'
(WND-1, 955).
"The Buddha is known
as 'One Who Can Endure.'
Our perseverance then
is clear proof that we are
Bodhisattvas of the Earth."
SGI Newsletter No. 7713, Be Invincible in Spirit, from the March 2009 issue
of Daibyakurenge, translated Feb.17th 2009
* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends and Daily Gosho is available by
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---WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
SHINKOSHA TOWA
TAYUMANU CHOSEN NO HITO
"TSUKIZUKI HIBI"
JIBUN NI KACHIYUKE!
SOKONI KOFUKU NO EIKAN GA
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"ICHIJO NO HORI O KOEZARU MONO NIJO SANJO NO HORI O
KOETENYA YASUKI AME O DANI FURASHI TAMAWAZU IWANYA KATAKI
OJO JOBUTSU OYA"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1158)
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