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Saturday, September 5th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's start each day by doing gongyo and daimoku!
Then, brimming with life force,
let's establish a whole new rhythm of advancement and progress!
*"Gongyo is a daily activity in which we purify and prime our hearts and minds. It is starting the engine for our day, like grooming ourselves before we set out for the day."
"Gongyo and daimoku are a ceremony in which our lives commune with the universe. During gongyo, through our faith in the Gohonzon, we vigorously infuse the microcosm of our individual existence with the life force of the macrocosm, of the entire universe. If we do this regularly each morning and evening, our life force--or engine--is strengthened."
(Discussions On Youth, Volume 2)
Saturday, September 5th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Muster your faith, and pray to this Gohonzon. Then what
is there that cannot be achieved?"
(Reply to Kyo'o - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
Vol.1, page 412) Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin",
Seikyo Shimbun, September 5th, 2009
Sunday, September 6th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Dialogue is extremely important in Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism.
"The Daishonin writes: 'This saha world is a land in which one gains the way through the faculty of hearing' (WND-2, 87). Teaching another person about the Mystic Law and enabling them to form a connection with Buddhism is the supremely noble work of Buddhas. The dialogues you are carrying out in order to share the Daishonin's teachings with others are directly linked to the expansion of happiness and humanism.
"The Daishonin states: '[Having] heard the Lotus Sutra, which leads to Buddhahood, with this as the seed, one will invariably become a Buddha' (WND-1, 882); and 'One should by all means persist in preaching the Lotus Sutra and causing [others] to hear it' (WND-1, 882). We mustn't spare our voices in sharing the unsurpassed principles of the Daishonin's Buddhism with as many people as possible. Through such efforts, we help connect others to Buddhism, the path to eternal happiness. At the same time, we engrave experiences of everlasting good fortune in our lives. The Daishonin declares: 'Single-mindedly chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and urge others to do the same; that will remain as the only memory of your present life in this human world' (WND-1, 64)."
SGI Newsletter No. 7844, YOUNG WOMEN'S DIVISION COMMEMORATIVE GATHERING --PART 4 [OF 5] Engage in Dialogue to Foster Friendship and Humanistic Ideals, from the June 10th, 2009, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Aug. 26th, 2009
* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends and Daily Gosho is available by
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
GONGYO SHODAI KARA
ICHINICHI O SHUPPATSU!
MANMANTARU SEIMEIRYOKU DE
ATARASHIKI ZENSHIN NO
"rhythm" O TSUKURO.
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"AIKAMAETE GOSHINJIN O IDASHI KONO GOHONZON NI KINEN
SESHIME TAMAE NANIGOTOKA JOJU SEZARUBEKI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1124)
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