Shimbun and more.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's have the sort of conversations that help us to make good connections
with others, heart to heart.
Let's be open to interacting with the people that are in our immediate
environment
so that we can help them to establish a really good connection with
Buddhism.
And through such individual efforts, let us open up a grand, magnificent
road
towards rissho ankoku - The Establishment of the Peace and Security of the
Land*!
* Rissho ankoku is the establishment of a peaceful society based upon true
Buddhism.
* Rissho means to "establish true Buddhism" - in other words, to widely
spread such humanistic Buddhist tenets as compassion and respect for the
sanctity of life throughout society. This is the religious mission of those
who practice Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism. On an individual level, it means
embarking on an inner human revolution, tapping and cultivating the
compassion within our lives and firmly establishing humanism as our guiding
principle.
If human life, the principle creative force, can thus be transformed, the
repercussions of such a transformation will spread to society and to all
spheres of human endeavour. As a result, not only will politics support the
cause of human peace and happiness but so will education, culture and
economics, thus leading to ankoku, "securing the peace of the land."
This process resembles how the waters of a great river irrigate the fields,
enriching the soil and promoting luxuriant growth of grasses and trees.
Buddhism is the great river and the people are the fields. The grasses and
trees, meanwhile, correspond to peace and culture.
(The New Human Revolution, Volume 2, Vanguard chapter, Page 37, June 1995
edition published by the SGI-USA)
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"At such a time, the three obstacles and four devils will invariably appear,
and the wise will rejoice while the foolish will retreat."
(The Three Obstacles and Four Devils - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
Vol. 1, page 637)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, June 3rd, 2009.
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Those who are serious prepare in earnest. That's why nothing is more
effective than a serious commitment."
SGI Newsletter No. 7786, The New Human Revolution-Vol. 22: Chap. 3, High
Seas 7, translated June 2nd, 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---
KOKORO O YUSABURU
SEIJITSU NO TAIWA TARE!
[ME NO MAE NO HITORI] NI
BUTSUEN O HIROGEYO.
RISSHO ANKOKURON NO DAIDO O!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KANARAZU SANSHO SHIMA TO MOSU SAWARI IDEKITAREBA KENJA WA YOROKOBI GUSHA WA
SHIRIZOKU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1091)
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