Thursday, November 5th, 2009
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all our newly appointed leaders --
please try your very best in all endeavours!
The cog-wheels of our movement
will begin to turn in the direction of victory
as a result of your sincere and earnest efforts!
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Never seek this Gohonzon outside yourself. The Gohonzon exists only within the mortal flesh of us ordinary people who embrace the Lotus Sutra and chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo."
(The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 832)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, November 5th, 2009
Friday, November 6th, 2009
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Empathising with others' pain and suffering is different from merely feeling pity. Ultimately, the only way for someone to truly overcome their problems is for that person to summon the power from within the depths of their life to stand up strongly on their own to challenge those problems. Mr. Toda pointed out: 'You can't help anyone in a truly meaningful way by just saying how sorry you feel for them. Become leaders who can offer genuine guidance and encouragement based on faith. You should say what needs to be said, and then chant daimoku together with the person you're encouraging.' True Buddhist compassion has nothing to do with sentimentality or mere pity. This is because sentimentality or mere pity cannot help the other person achieve victory in life; it cannot truly relieve suffering and impart joy, for it does not solve the fundamental problem in terms of 'shared sufferings.'
"'Compassion gives rise to wisdom,' Mr. Toda maintained. 'The compassion to want to help others overcome their problems will bring forth the necessary wisdom for us to know the best way to proceed.'
"Buddhism is a struggle to be victorious. So are our lives and our efforts in society. The Daishonin encouraged his disciples with both compassion and strictness to spur them to summon forth the power of the Buddha from within and attain happiness without fail."
SGI Newsletter No. 7882, THE WRITINGS OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN AND THE MENTOR-DISCIPLE RELATIONSHIP, [11] Buddhist Compassion--Relieving Suffering and Imparting Joy, from the April 2nd, 2009, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Oct. 30th, 2009.
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---WAGATOMO NI OKURU---
ATARASHIKI "leader" YO
"best" O TSUKUSE!
KIMI NO SHINKEN TO SEIJITSU KARA
SHORI NO HAGURUMA GA
MAWARI HAJIMERU NO DA!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KONO GOHONZON MATTAKU YOSONI MOTOMURU KOTO NAKARE TADA WARERA SHUJO NO HOKEKYO O
TAMOCHITE NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO TO TONAURU KYOCHU NO NIKUDAN NI OWASHIMASU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1244)
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