published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Meeting people is what kosen-rufu is all about.
Let's summon up the courage and confidently share this
Buddhism and its philosophy with as many people as we can!
The conversations we have with others are all great opportunities
for us to sow the seed of Buddhahood in their lives.
*"Even if one should fall into hell, because one has heard the Lotus Sutra, which leads to Buddhahood, with this as the seed, one will invariably become a Buddha."
- "How Those Initially Aspiring to the Way Can Attain Buddhahood
through the Lotus Sutra", WND-I, page 882
"It is stated that 'the seeds of Buddhahood sprout as a result of conditions,
and for this reason they preach the single vehicle.'"
- "The Properties of Rice", WND-I, 1117
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Nevertheless, even though you chant and believe in Myoho-renge-kyo, if you think the Law is outside yourself, you are embracing not the Mystic Law but an inferior teaching."
(On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 3) Selection source:
SGI-Kenya Women's Division Leader's encouragement, Seikyo
Shimbun, September 27th, 2009
Monday, September 28th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"My wife and I will always remember these words of a former top Kansai women's division leader: 'We have learned the importance of unwavering faith from the three founding presidents of the Soka Gakkai. That's why we're determined to transform any negative situation into something positive, in accord with the principle of 'changing poison into medicine'... Each of us must become a person who can state with unshakable conviction: 'I will not be defeated!'"
SGI Newsletter No. 7860, Boldly Paving the Way to Fresh Growth and Development, from the October 2009 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated Sep.24th, 2009
* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends is available by
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http://www.sokanet.jp/sg/sn/member_support_top.html
--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
HITO TO AU KOTOGA
KOSENRUFU!
YUKI O DASHI
JISHIN MANMAN DE KATARO
SUBETE GA BUTSUEN DA.
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"TADASHI MYOHO RENGE KYO TO TONAE TAMOTSU TO IUTOMO MOSHI
KOSHIN NO HOKANI HO ARI TO OMOWABA MATTAKU MYOHO NI ARAZU
SOHO NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 383)
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