Saturday, April 10th, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
All of our "uncrowned heroes" carry such great noble
missions to link the hearts of mentor and disciple
through their deliveries of the Seikyo Shimbun
and our other SGI publications.
In exact accordance with each step you take
our victorious advancement begins.
Saturday, April 10th, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It must be ties of karma from the distant past that have destined you to become my disciple at a time like this. Shakyamuni and Many Treasures certainly realised this truth. The sutra's statement, 'Those persons who had heard the Law dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers,' cannot be false in any way."
(The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 217)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, April 10, 2010
Sunday, April 11th, 2010
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"A genuine spirit of concern for all people means we will uphold a philosophy of respect for others and battle negative functions that cause people suffering, while refusing to condone violence or oppression that threatens human dignity or equality. If we see the spread of thinking that justifies using human life as a means to an end or that divides and discriminates against people, then we must vigorously denounce the misguided teachings or ideas that form the spiritual soil for such thought. It is a battle against the fundamental darkness or ignorance that plunges people's lives into suffering and misery. This is the essence of the 'battle between the provisional teachings and the true teaching,' and the crux of the shakubuku spirit in Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism.
"In essence, this means firmly believing in the Buddha nature of oneself and others, and therefore respecting all people. The heart of shakubuku is a spirit of compassion. And because the practice of shakubuku also involves resolutely battling the devilish nature or fundamental darkness that derides human dignity, it also constitutes a fearless spirit of refutation in which compassion gives rise to courage.
"We of the SGI have been able to carry out interfaith and intercivilisational dialogue due to our commitment to humanism, which is guided by the compassionate spirit to speak out against evils that trample on human dignity and people's fundamental rights. Because of this, it is possible for us to join together with other religions and philosophies that share the common values of respect for human beings and the dignity of life in what Mr. Makiguchi termed 'humanistic competition' channelled towards eradicating human misery and suffering. Indeed, it is an indispensable requirement of religion in the 21st century to denounce all abuses of human dignity."
SGI Newsletter No. 7973*, LEARNING FROM THE WRITINGS OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN: THE TEACHINGS FOR VICTORY, [14] 'On Practising the Buddha's Teachings'--Part 2 [of 3] The Compassionate Practice of Shakubuku, from the February 2010 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated April 5th, 2010
* 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 ---
"MUKAN NO TOMO" NIWA
SHITEI NO KOKORO O MUSUBU
SONGOKU NO SHIMEI GA ARU!
MINASAN NO IPPO KARA
SHORI NO ZENSHIN GA HAJIMASU!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KAKO NO SHIKUEN OIKITATTE KONDO NICHIREN GA DESHI TO NARI
TAMAUKA SHAKA TAHO KOSO GOZONJI SORORAME 'ZAIZAI
SHOBUTSUDO JOYO SHIGUSHO' YOMO SORAGOTO SORAWAJI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1338)
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