published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Buddhism is all about our behaviour as human beings.*
Let's become the type of person who can inspire others
with our thoughtful and sensible actions and positively cause people to say,
"Every time I meet that person, I feel encouraged and refreshed."
*"The purpose of the appearance in this world of Shakyamuni Buddha, the lord
of teachings, lies in his behaviour as a human being. The wise may be called
human, but the thoughtless are no more than animals."
- "The Three Kinds of Treasure", WND-II, page 852
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It is like the case of a person who falls to the ground, but who then
pushes himself up from the ground and rises to his feet again."
(The Proof of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren
Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1108) Selection source: SGI
President Ikeda's essay, Seikyo Shimbun, March 28th, 2009
Sunday, March 29th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Shakyamuni Buddha called a person who was able to teach even one phrase of
the Lotus Sutra to another an 'envoy of the Thus Come One' who 'was carrying
out the Thus Come One's work' (cf. LS10, 162)-- in other words, a person who
was enacting the behaviour of a Buddha. This is a perfect description of our
activities as members of the SGI.
"A single concrete effort at the grassroots level is far nobler than a
thousand grandiose but empty theories. The Russian author Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910) cited the words [of the French philosophical writer Félicité
Lamennais (1782-1854)]: 'We must look to ordinary people to find truly
heroic and selfless acts.'"
SGI Newsletter No. 7740, Be Brilliant Embodiments of Your Convictions, from
the April 2009 issue of Daibyakurenge, the Soka Gakkai monthly study
journal, translated March 24th, 2009
* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends 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 ---
BUPPO WA HITO NO FURUMAI.
"ANO HITO O MIRUTO
SUGASUGASHIKU NARU"
SO IWARERU
KENJA NO KODO O!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HITO NO CHI NI TAORETE KAETTE CHI YORI TATSUGA GOTOSHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1586)
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