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Sunday, October 4th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's make a point of talking with our youth
and having the type of conversation that inspires them with courage.
Each and every one of them is a precious individual
"who can inherit the soul of the Lotus Sutra."*
Let's earnestly chant daimoku for the sake
of their growth and victory in life!
*"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", WND-I, page 839
Sunday, October 4th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The purpose of the appearance in this world of Shakyamuni Buddha, the lord of teachings, lies in his behaviour as a human bring."
(The Three Kinds of Treasure - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 852) Selection source: Q & A on Buddhism, Seikyo Shimbun, October 4th, 2009
Monday, October 5th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In an interview last year, Dr. Vincent Harding--a close friend of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-68) and the first director of the King Center in Atlanta, Georgia--commented:
"Hope is really the expression of a deep sense of confidence in the possibilities that human beings can carry with them for the creation of a better world. But we can't achieve that goal simply as isolated individuals. We have to join our creativity. King used to say, we have to organize goodness.
"To organise goodness or forces for good--this is a very important point. Our movement for kosen-rufu is about tapping into the greatest force for good there is--the boundless life-force of Buddhahood inherent in each person's life--and uniting and organising that power. This is the strategy of the Lotus Sutra."
SGI Newsletter No. 7863, THE WRITINGS OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN AND THE MENTOR-DISCIPLE RELATIONSHIP, [10] The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra--Part 2 [of 2], from the March 20th, 2009, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Sep.29th, 2009
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
SEINEN TO KATARO.
SEINEN O HAGEMASO.
"HOKEKYO NO INOCHI O
TSUGU HITO NAREBA"
SEICHO SHORI O INORE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KYOSHU SHAKUSON NO SHUSSE NO HONKAI WA HITO NO FURUMAI NITE SORAIKERUZO"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1174)
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