Thursday, September 10th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Our life is like a stage upon which we enact the drama of kosen-rufu!
Just as Nichiren Daishonin says "you should all perform a dance"*,
let's all advance towards victory cheerfully and in high spirits.
* Gosho, Great Evil and Great Good - WND-1, page 1119, "Great events never have minor omens. When great evil occurs, great good follows. Since great slander already exists in our land, the great correct Law will spread without fail. What could any of you have to lament? Even if you are not the Venerable Mahakashyapa, you should all perform a dance. Even if you are not Shariputra, you should leap up and dance. When Bodhisattva Superior Practices emerged from the earth, did he not emerge dancing?"
Thursday, September 10th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The blessings gained by practising the correct teaching, however, are so great that by meeting minor sufferings in this life we can change the karma that destines us to suffer terribly in the future."
(To the Brothers, Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Volume 1, Page 497)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, September 10th, 2009
Friday, September 11th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin is a religion for ordinary people, aimed at opening an era of the people and helping everyone gain true happiness. For us, as its practitioners, the realisation of happiness for all people is not an abstract theory, but a concrete goal that we can achieve by focusing on each individual. By helping
one person become happy through faith in the Mystic Law, we can show actual proof of the validity of the Daishonin's Buddhism as a truly humanistic religion.
"Achieving an ideal society must ultimately begin with each individual carrying out their own great human revolution, or inner transformation. The Daishonin sought to foster such people, and in order to do so he taught that faith is a necessary and indispensable requirement."
SGI Newsletter No. 7851, LEARNING FROM THE WRITINGS OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN: THE TEACHINGS FOR VICTORY, [7] "The Supremacy of the Law"--Part 1 [of 3], The Lotus Sutra Is the "Great Ship" for the Enlightenment of All People, from the July 2009 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated Sep. 9th, 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---
WAGA JINSEI WA
KOFU NO DORAMA DA!
[MAI O MO
MAINUBESHI]
ISAMI KACHIYUKE
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KONJO NI SHOHO O GYO ZURU KUDOKU, GOJO NAREBA MIRAI NO DAIKU O MANEGIKOSHITE SHOKU
NI AU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1083)
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