Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To our precious exemplary members of the great city of Tokyo,
advance with the courage of a charging lion,
never allow anything to come in your way of clinching victory!
Your mission, as the stronghold of our organisation,
is undoubtedly to take the lead in accomplishing the "Complete Victory of Soka"!
Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Employ the strategy of the Lotus Sutra before any other. 'All others who bear you enmity or malice will likewise be wiped out.' These golden words will never prove false."
(The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1001)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, April 21st, 2010
Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"All humanity owes a profound debt to women and mothers. Having a sense of gratitude for them is the guiding light of a culture of peace. Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'In order to repay my debt to my mother, I have vowed to enable all women to chant the daimoku of this sutra [i.e., Nam-myoho-renge-kyo]' (WND-1, 931).
"The undertaking of 'establishing the correct teaching for the peace of the land,' set forth by the Daishonin, is the endless challenge of ridding the world of tragedies that inflict pain and suffering on mothers and children and instead creating peaceful societies that are radiant with their happy smiles.
"The Daishonin continued to warmly encourage the lay nun Ueno, the mother of Nanjo Tokimitsu, who was mourning the loss of her husband and young son. In one letter to her, he writes: 'One who embraces the Lotus Sutra will realise that hell is itself the Land of Tranquil Light' (WND-1, 456). Through her steadfast faith, the lay nun Ueno paved the way to victory for her entire family.
"The lotus flower blooms with unsullied purity from the midst of the muddy waters. We of the SGI are propagating the Mystic Law precisely so that mothers and indeed all those who have experienced great hardships and travails can attain unsurpassed happiness in life."
SGI Newsletter No. 7980, Celebrating May 3, Soka Gakkai Mother's Day, from the May 2010 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated April 20th, 2010
* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends & Daily Gosho is available by clicking on Seikyo Shimbun's web-site address at
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
HOMARE NO DAITOKYO YO!
SHISHI FUNJIN NO YUKI DE
DANJITE KACHIMAKURE!
[SOKA KANSHO] KOSO
HONJIN NO SHIMEI NARI!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"NANINO HEIHO YORIMO HOKEKYO NO HEIHO O MOCHII TAMAUBESHI 'SHOYO ONTEKI KAISHITSU SAIMETSU' NO KINGEN MUNASHIKARU BEKERAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1192)
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