Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's be sure to give a warm friendly welcome
to everyone who comes to the discussion meeting,
showing them the same respect we would a Buddha.*
At the same time,
let's be sure to sincerely encourage those members
who may not have been able to come for various different reasons.
Every single one of us, without exception,
is an extremely precious capable person.
*"If you see a person who accepts and upholds this sutra, you should rise and greet him from afar, showing him the same respect you would a Buddha"
- The Lotus Sutra, "Encouragements of the Bodhisattva Universal Worthy" Chapter
Saturday, January 22nd, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."
(On Prayer - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 345)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, January 22nd, 2011
Sunday, January 23rd, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Many lament the alienation of contemporary society, characterised by a pervasive loneliness and isolation and the loss of the ties of warmth and affection holding people together.
"Back in Nichiren Daishonin's day, during the Kamakura period (1185-1333), the Pure Land school's practice of chanting the name of Amida Buddha--which the Daishonin described as the 'melancholy drone of the Nembutsu' (GZ, 96) --gave rise to a widespread sense of apathy and impotence. The Nembutsu teaching urged people to seek rebirth after death in a distant, illusory pure land, which only reinforced the prevailing tendency to reject positive involvement with the real world. It was at such a time that the Daishonin embarked on a course of dialogue to establish the correct teaching for the peace of the land. He did so, he says, 'solely for the sake of the nation, for the sake of the Law, for the sake of others' (WND-1, 164).
"In that same great spirit, we are striving with sincerity and courage to hold lively, heart-to-heart dialogues with as many people as possible. The highest hope for illuminating our alienated society is none other than the Mystic Law."
SGI Newsletter No. 8142, Helping Others Form a Connection with Buddhism Is the Heart of Kosen-rufu, from the February 2011 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated Jan. 18th, 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 ---
ZADANKAI NI TSUDOTTA HITO O
HOTOKE NO GOTOKU MUKAEYO!
SANKA DEKINAKATTA TOMO NIMO
MAGOKORO NO HAGEMASHI O!
ZEN-IN GA TAKARA NO JINZAI DA.
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1352)
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