Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
My dearest friends of the Tokaido region*
whose glorious achievements have always awed the world:
Now is the time to roar like lions for victory,
powerfully far and wide!**
Let us create the kind of history where truth and justice prevails!
The time has come to charge ahead,
strongly united and in rhythm with each other towards our noble goals.
* Tokaido region refers to the East Sea Route on the main Japanese island of Honshu.
** In the famous "Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings," the Daishonin discusses the profound significance of the "lion's roar," which is expounded in the Lotus Sutra. Noting that the word lion is written with Chinese characters for teacherand child, he says: "The Chinese character teacher represents the Mystic law as it is passed on by the mentor, and the Chinese character child indicates the Mystic law as it is received by the disciples. The Chinese character roar, meanwhile, refers to the sound of mentor and disciples chanting in unison" (Gosho Zenshu, P. 748)
Letting the lion's roar of mentor and disciple resound powerfully far and wide, the Soka Gakkai will forever advance on the path of undefeated victory. (http://www.sgi-usa-study.org/sokagakkai.htm)
Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"One who has fallen to the ground recovers and rises up from the ground."
(The Proof of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1108)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, March 10th, 2010
Thursday, March 11th, 2010
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"We can't achieve anything worthwhile unless we stand up resolutely as an individual with the readiness to face any obstacle we may encounter. Friends are an important factor in strengthening that resolve. As the eminent American Renaissance thinker Ralph Emerson (1803-82) said: 'With [a friend] we are easily great.'
SGI Newsletter No. 7949, The New Human Revolution--Vol. 23: Chap. 2, Light of Learning 5, translated March 5th, 2010
* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends and Daily Gosho 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---
SEKAI GA AKOGARERU
HOMARE NO TOKAIDO YO
IMA KOSO DAISHISHIKU O!
SEIGI GA KATSU REKISHI O!
SA DANKETSU NO ZENSHIN DA.
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"CHI NI TAORERU HITO WA, KAERITE CHI YORI OKU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1586)
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