Friday, October 23rd, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
When it comes to making any type of effort for the sake of kosen-rufu
there is absolutely no need to hesitate
or feel that we need to be modest.
Having a hesitant attitude only leads to defeat.
To your heart's content, be true to yourself,
and confidently play out your unique role for kosen-rufu.
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"A bird's egg contains nothing but liquid, yet by itself this develops into a beak, two eyes, and all the other parts, and the bird soars into the sky. We, too, are the eggs of ignorance, which are pitiful things, but when nurtured by the chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, which is like the warmth of the mother bird, we develop the beak of the thirty-two features and feathers of the eighty characteristics and are free to soar into the sky of the true aspect of all phenomena and the reality of all things."
(Letter to Niike - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1030) Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's essay, Seikyo Shimbun, October 23rd, 2009
Saturday, October 24th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In The Count of Monte Cristo, the great novel by Alexandre Dumas (1802-70), there is the passage: 'Those who mean to contend must not lose one precious moment, but must return immediately the blow which fortune strikes. Do you intend to struggle against our ill-fortune?' Youth should never allow themselves to be defeated by circumstance, but should respond, fight back, and vindicate themselves and their
ideals. This attitude provides the power to overcome destiny."
SGI Newsletter No. 7879, MY IMPRESSIONS OF GREAT FIGURES IN HISTORY, Alexandre Dumas, from the May 26th, 2009, issue of the Seikyo Shinbun, translated Oct. 22nd, 2009.
* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends 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 ---
KOSEN RUFU NI
ENRYO WA IRANAI
SHUNJUN WA HAIBOKU DA
OMOU ZONZUN
KIMIRASHIKU SUSUME!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"TATOEBA TORI NO TAMAGO WA HAJIMEWA MIZU NARI SONO MIZU NO
NAKAYORI DAREKA NASUTOMO NAKEREDOMO KUCHIBASHI YO ME YO TO
KAZARI IDEKITE KOKU NI KAKERUGA GOTOSHI WARERAMO MUMYO NO
TAMAGO NI SHITE ASAMASHIKI MI NAREDOMO NANMYOHORENGEKYO NO
TONAE NO HAHA NI ATATAMERARE MAIRASETE SANJUNISO NO
KUCHIBASHI IDETE HACHIJUSHUKO NO YOROIGE OISOROITE JISSO
SHINNYO NO KOKU NI KAKERUBESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1443)
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