and more.
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Our true worth as human beings shines forth
when we deeply engage ourselves in a campaign to achieve a certain goal!
The Gosho teaches us that "Worthies and sages are tested by abuse."*
Dearest friends in faith -- let us strive bravely and courageously towards our goals
and be proud of all our efforts.
* (Gosho - Letter from Sado - WND-1, Pg 303, "Iron, when heated in the flames and
pounded, becomes a fine sword. Worthies and sages are tested by abuse.")
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Since childhood, I, Nichiren, have never prayed for the secular things of this life
but have single-mindedly sought to become a Buddha. Of late, however, I have been
ceaselessly praying for your sake to the Lotus Sutra, Shakyamuni Buddha, and the god
of the sun, for I am convinced that you are a person who can inherit the soul of the
Lotus Sutra."
(The Hero of the World - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 839)
Selection Source: Study - Bonds of Mentor and Disciple, Seikyo Shinbun, June 16th,
2009
* As you can see we have unintentionally started a contest to see who knows their
gosho! There was a mistake in yesterday's gosho quote again! Our apologies! It should
have read...
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it,
though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might
cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never
come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go
unanswered."
(On Prayer - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 345) Selection source:
Living Buddhism, Seikyo Shimbun, June 15th, 2009
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In the Daishonin's Buddhism, when we chant daimoku in earnest prayer, that prayer at
the most fundamental level has already been answered. Confident in this great
truth--in the power of 'this wonderful single Law that simultaneously possesses both
cause and effect' (WND-1, 421)--let's forge ahead together on the noble path of
kosen-rufu."
SGI Newsletter No. 7795, 29TH SOKA GAKKAI HEADQUARTERS LEADERS MEETING--PART 1 [OF
2], Win Through All Challenges, (At the 29th Headquarters Leaders Meeting, held in
conjunction with the 15th Nationwide Youth Division Leaders Meeting, at the Soka
International Friendship Hall in Sendagaya, Tokyo, on May 27th, 2009) from the June
1st, 2009, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated June 15th, 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---
NINGEN NO SHINKA WA
TOSO NO NAKA DE HIKARU!
[KENSEI WA MERI SHITE
KOKOROMIRU NARU BESHI]
DOSHI YO HOMARE NO YUSEN O
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"NICHIREN WA WAKAKI YORI KONJO NO INORI NASHI TADA HOTOKE NI NARAN TO OMOU BAKARINARI
SAREDOMO TONO NO ONKOTO OBA HIMANAKU HOKEKYO SHAKABUTSU NITTEN NI MOSU NARI SONO
YUEWA HOKEKYO NO INOCHI O TSUGU HITO NAREBA TO OMOUNARI" (Gosho Zenshu, page 1169)
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