Saturday, March 20th, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Our life is like a "treasure tower"* expanding magnificently
across the great universe,
supreme and worthy of the highest respect!
Let us chant then, seriously, with wholehearted sincerity
and unleash the unlimited possibilities that exist within each of us!
* Gosho: On the Treasure Tower, WND-1, p 299, "In the Latter Day of the Law, no treasure tower exists other than the figures of the men and women who embrace the Lotus Sutra. It follows, therefore, that whether eminent or humble, high or low, those who chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo are themselves the treasure tower..."
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Single-mindedly chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and urge others to do the same; that will remain as the only memory of your present life in this human world."
(Questions and Answers about Embracing the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 64)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, March 20th, 2010
Sunday, March 21st, 2010
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"To not only be resolved to surmount every obstacle we encounter, but also to elevate our life-condition to new heights as a result of positively transforming adversity--this is the joyous drama that all of us without exception can enact in our lives through the principle of 'changing poison into medicine' based on faith in the Mystic Law.
"Referring to Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom and the Great Teacher T'ien-t'ai's Profound Meaning of the Lotus Sutra, Nichiren Daishonin declared for the sake of all people living in the defiled age of the Latter Day of the Law: 'What does it mean to change poison into medicine? It means to transform the three paths [of earthly desires, karma, and suffering] into the three virtues: the Dharma body, wisdom, and emancipation' (WND-2, 743). In other words, the supreme power of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo enables us to transform any deluded impulse, any karma, and any suffering into Buddhahood, wisdom, and benefit. There is no negative karma that we cannot change. This is a brilliant source of hope. As a result, we need not lament or despair."
SGI Newsletter No. 7957, The Joyous Drama of 'Changing Poison into Medicine,' from the April 2010 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated March 16th, 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---
WAGA SEIMEI WA
UCHUDAI NI HIROGARU
SONGOKU NO [HOTO] NARI!
SHINKEN NA SHODAI DE
MUGEN NO CHIKARA O HIROGE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SUBEKARAKU KOKORO O ITSU NI SHITE NANMYOHORENGEKYO TO WARE MO TONAE TA OMO SUSUMEN NOMIKOSO KONJO NINKAI NO OMOIDE NARUBEKI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 467)
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