Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
"Iron, when heated in the flames and pounded, becomes a fine sword.*
To all of our youth,
confront hardships head on!
Challenging to overcome all difficulties and suffering,
without giving up, no matter how hard things might be,
will definitely strengthen us and
make us shine like treasured swords.
* "Letter from Sado" - WND-I, page 303
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Treating one's friends with courtesy means that, although one may encounter them ten or twenty times in the course of a single day, one greets them courteously as though they had travelled a thousand or two thousand miles to see one, never showing them indifference."
(The Four Virtues and the Four Debts of Gratitude - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.2, page 636)
Selection source: "Suntetsu", Seikyo Shimbun, Feb. 23rd, 2010
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Following the path of mentor and disciple will always enable us to overcome the tendency towards arrogance, and thereby keep growing and achieve victory in our endeavours.
"The 'Encouraging Devotion' (13th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra describes the three powerful enemies--arrogant lay people, arrogant priests, and arrogant false sages --that will assail practitioners of the correct teaching. A more literal translation of the Sanskrit title of this chapter is 'Ceaseless Effort.' Devilish functions are ceaselessly active, which is why the Bodhisattvas of the Earth need to engage in ceaseless efforts even more earnestly to combat them. We must, therefore, strengthen our faith day by day and month after month (cf. WND-1, 997), as the Daishonin urges. We must become ever stronger.
"My mentor Josei Toda declared: 'We were born to keep progressing and to win in our lives. Our Buddhist practice enables us to quickly change ourselves for the better.'
SGI Newsletter No. 7936, Future Victory Is Determined Now, from the March 2010 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated Feb, 18th, 2010
* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends is available by clicking on Seikyo Shimbun's web-site address at
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
"KUROGANE WA KITAI UTEBA
TSURUGI TO NARU"
SEINEN YO KANNAN NI IDOME!
KU NI TESSUREBA
SEIMEI WA HOKEN TO HIKARU!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"TOMO NI AUTE REI ARE TOWA TOMODACHI NO ICHINICHI NI JUTABI NIJUTABI KITARERU HITO NARITOMO SENRI NISENRI KITARERU HITO NO GOTOKU OMOUTE REIGI ISASAKA OROKANI OMOU BEKAERAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1257)
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