Saturday, May 8th, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To conquer ourselves, to overcome our weaknesses
that is the greatest victory.
Especially when we cannot make up our minds,
find ourselves wavering,
that is the time to make a point of taking one step forwards.
Let's break down all those walls that obstruct us
with the powerful conviction that we will definitely win!
Saturday, May 8th, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"...'It will only be like a boar rubbing against the golden mountain; like the various rivers flowing into the sea; like logs making a fire burn more briskly; or like the wind swelling the body of the kalakula insect.' These passages mean that, if one understands and practices the Lotus Sutra just as it teaches, in accordance with the people's capacity and at the right time, then these seven obstacles and devils will confront one."
(The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 770)
Selection source: "Myoji no Gen", Seikyo Shimbun, May 8th, 2010
Sunday, May 9th, 2010
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Daishonin says that when someone--no matter who they may be--carries out the practice of shakubuku, refuting error in the realm of Buddhism, the three powerful enemies are sure to appear. The practice of shakubuku as taught in the Lotus Sutra indicates the kind of refutation... which is based on the correct teaching for attaining Buddhahood; it is not by any means motivated by intolerance or self-righteousness. ...the practice of shakubuku in the Daishonin's Buddhism is grounded in a deep commitment to the correct teaching and a spirit of compassion to help guide people to genuine, lasting happiness. The spirit of refuting error in the realm of Buddhism, valuing the Law more highly than one's own life, means courageously battling the workings of the devilish nature inherent in life that slander the correct teaching and seek to plunge people into misery. When this compassionate and altruistic spirit underlies our actions, we can vanquish all error or evil.
"Because carrying out the practice of shakubuku as taught in the Lotus Sutra is the correct way of practice in the Latter Day--serving to both protect the Law and free people from suffering--it is inevitable that opposition and resistance will arise from arrogant forces. Unless we grasp this principle, we will not understand the true nature of the great obstacles that befall the votaries of the Lotus Sutra."
SGI Newsletter No. 7990, LEARNING FROM THE WRITINGS OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN: THE TEACHINGS FOR VICTORY, [15] 'On Practicing the Buddha's Teachings'--Part 3,
Encountering Great Obstacles Is Proof of Propagating The Correct Teaching for Attaining Buddhahood in The Latter Day of the Law, from the March 2010 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated May 7th, 2010
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
JIBUN NI KATSU KOTO GA
SAIKO NO SHORI DA!
MAYOTTA TOKI KOSO
IPPO FUMIDASE!
TSUYOKI DE KABE O YABURE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"INOSHISHI NO KINZAN O SURI SHURU NO UMI NI IRI TAKIGI NO HI O SAKAN NI SHI KAZE NO GURA O MASU GA GOTOKI NOMI TO UNNUN SHAKU NO KOKORO WA HOKEKYO O KYO NO GOTOKU KI NI KANAI TOKI NI KANAUTE GEGYO SUREBA NANATSU NO DAIJI SHUTTAI SU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 916)
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