Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all of our brilliant Soka students,
whom we are all so proud of,
thank you so much for inspiring us
with such fantastic dreams and hopes,
what an amazing victory you have achieved!*
Everyone let's follow in their great footsteps and cheerfully live
out our own lives, fulfilling our own great dreams, too!
*Soka University's micro satellite, "Negai" (Wish), was part of a four-satellite payload chosen by JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) for a piggyback launch into space with PLANET-C (Venus Climate Orbiter) on May 21st, 2010. Soka University's satellite, which contains names and dreams of children on microfilm recruited through a public campaign, aims to spur interest in space exploration among children. Photographs taken of Earth by Negai's onboard camera will be distributed to campaign participants.
Check out... http://www.soka.ac.jp/en/newstopics/2008_0711.html)
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Yet you must grit your teeth and never slacken in your faith. Be as fearless as Nichiren when he acted and spoke out before Hei no Saemonnojo."
(Letter to the Brothers - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 498)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, May 22nd, 2010
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Burning with the Gakkai spirit throughout the four seasons, our admirable members everywhere are striving to realise the most lofty human goal of building a peaceful world through widely propagating the principles and ideals of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism. They are walking the noble path of human revolution in the spirit of oneness of mentor and disciple.
"Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'Because I have expounded this teaching, I have been exiled and almost killed. [For as] the saying goes, 'Good advice grates on the ear. But still I am not discouraged' (WND-1, 748). In July 1260, the Daishonin sounded an alarm for the society of his day in his treatise 'On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land'. Because he dared speak the truth, he was subjected to an uninterrupted series of dire persecutions from that time on. The major of these were the Matsubagayatsu Persecution (in 1260), the Izu Exile (in 1261), the Komatsubara Persecution (in 1264), and the Tatsunokuchi Persecution and subsequent Sado Exile (in 1271).
"But the Daishonin never flinched. He repulsed these attacks, stood firm, and fended off the legions of negative forces that assailed him. 'Still I am not discouraged'--these words perfectly embody the invincible spirit that is the essence of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism. Those whose hearts blaze with a spirit of justice are never discouraged. We must keep fighting tirelessly, until it is the devil king who gives up in frustration."
SGI Newsletter No. 7997, June Editorial, 'Still I Am Not Discouraged,' from the June 2010 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated May 18th, 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 ---
SOKA NO EISAI TACHI YO
OINARU YUME O
ARIGATO!
WARERA MO HOGARAKANI
DAI ROMAN NO JINSEI O!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"GOJONI HAGAMI O SHITE TAYUMU KOKORO NAKARE REISEBA NICHIREN GA HEI NO SAEMON NO JO GA MOTONITE UCHI FURUMAI IISHI GA GOTOKU SUKOSHIMO OZURU KOKORO NAKARE"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1084)
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