Thursday, January 13th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Win in the morning!
A good rhythm of life is the driving force for victory.
Let's start each day off by doing a vigorous gongyo and daimoku
with the rhythm like that of a galloping white horse!*
* "In addition, a person's attitude in doing gongyo reveals itself in how that person lives. A person whose gongyo is weak will lack vital energy and will lapse inevitably into a feeble way of living. If you do gongyo only as if it were a chore or out of a sense of obligation, it will be hard for you to feel joy in your faith. Therefore, let's encourage one another to do a refreshing and rhythmical gongyo, like a mythical white flying horse galloping through the sky. Together let's aim to do a superb, powerful gongyo each day, one that will move the entire universe and is infused with our earnest prayers."
(Human Revolution, Volume 12, "Declaration" chapter)
Thursday, January 13th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"What does Bodhisattva Never Disparaging's profound respect for people signify? The purpose of the appearance in this world of Shakyamuni Buddha, the lord of teachings, lies in his behaviour as a human being."
(The Three Kinds of Treasure - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 852)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, January 13th, 2011
Friday, January 14th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"We who uphold the Mystic Law believe that all people--both ourselves and others--innately possess the supreme life-state of Buddhahood. When we strive as emissaries and disciples of the Buddha--chanting the daimoku of the Lotus Sutra ourselves and encouraging others to do the same--we can spread the philosophy of genuine respect for the sanctity of life far and wide and enrich the world through the workings of Buddhist compassion.
"What our world needs today are more and more genuinely committed people who embody the life-affirming ideals of the Lotus Sutra. That is, individuals who can teach others through their personal experiences and actions that all people alike are endowed with infinitely noble potential. By awakening to that inner potential, we can defeat the discrimination that is the fundamental source of all evil and arises from the darkness or ignorance in human life. Also, only by deeply recognising the inherent dignity of the lives of all human beings can we triumph in the struggle to fundamentally overcome the perennial problem of war that plagues humanity."
SGI Newsletter No. 8139, LEARNING FROM THE WRITINGS OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN: THE TEACHINGS FOR VICTORY, [22] "The Blessings of the Lotus Sutra." Personal Initiative Is the Soka Gakkai's Founding Spirit,from the November 2010 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated Jan. 8th, 2011
* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends & Daily Gosho is available by clicking on Seikyo Shimbun's web-site address at http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html
--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
ASA NI KATE!
"rythm" ARU SEIKATSU GA
SHORI NO GENDORYOKU DA.
HAKUBA GA KAKERU YO NA
GONGYO, SHODAI KARA SHUPPATSU!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"FUKYO BOSATSU NO HITO O UYAMAISHI WA IKANARU KOTOZO KYOSHU SHAKUSON NO SHUSSE NO HONKAI WA HITO NO FURUMAI NITE SORAIKERUZO"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1174)
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