Shimbun and more.
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The determinations that we carry with us today
are what shape and decide our future!
Chanting daimoku sincerely and earnestly
based on our vow to achieve kosen-rufu is in fact,
the surest path to achieving victory in our own lives.
Let us once again make a fresh departure from this original point in faith*
!
* 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 in the Buddhism of the true
cause.
(Lectures on the "Expedient Means" and "Life Span" Chapters of the Lotus
Sutra by Daisaku Ikeda, Volume 3)
** "...a translation of the Japanese term kuon ganjo...literally means "long
distant original beginning." (SGI
http://www.sgi-usa.org/memberresources/leaders/development/2007/eng/pdf/h.TENB1.pdf)
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"There is no place among the worlds of the ten directions that the sound of
our voices chanting daimoku cannot reach. Our voices may be small, but when
we intone the powerful sound of daimoku, there is no place in the universe
that they do not penetrate." (World Tribune, January 26, 1996)
(Selection source, "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, April 8th, 2009)
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The power needed to open people's hearts comes from an ardent focus and a
vibrant life brimming with a resolute sense of purpose."
SGI Newsletter No. 7748, The New Human Revolution--Vol. 22: Chap. 2,
Currents 26, translated April 7th, 2009
* 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---
KYO NO KETSUI GA
MIRAI O KESSURU!
SEIGAN NO INORI KOSO
SHORI NO O-DO DA.
SA GENSHO NO SHUPPATSU O!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"DAIMOKU O TONAE TATEMATSURU KOE WA JIPPO SEKAI NI TO ZUKAZU TO IU TOKORO
NASHI, WARERA GA SHO-ON NAREDOMO, DAIMOKU NO DAI-ON NI IRETE TONAE
TATEMATSURU AIDA, ICHIDAI SANZEN SEKAI NI ITARAZARU TOKORO NASHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 808)
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