Sunday, April 17th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Courageously and in high spirits,
let's make today a truly victorious and successful day!
When we have chanted with such strong determination
there is absolutely nothing that is more powerful and convincing
than the power of our voices and the words we speak.
Sunday, April 17th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Iron, when heated in the flames and pounded, becomes a fine sword."
(Letter from Sado - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 303)
Selection source: "Yuki no Izumi", Seikyo Shimbun, April 17th, 2011
Monday, April 18th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In the Lotus Sutra only the Buddha's disciples from beginningless time were entrusted with the mission of propagating the Mystic Law in the Latter Day, which is to say, those propagating the Law in the present age are just such disciples and Bodhisattvas of the Earth. For disciples of the Daishonin, genuine faith and practice are found within the courageous struggle to further kosen-rufu in the Latter Day of the Law. As the Lotus Sutra states: 'He or she is the envoy of the thus come one. He has been dispatched by the thus come one and carries out the thus come one's work' (LSOC10, 200).
"...The Bodhisattvas of the Earth do not act because someone tells them to. Because their lives are dedicated to the Mystic Law inherent in the universe, they spontaneously chant daimoku and contribute to world peace and the welfare of society, as naturally as plants and trees grow from the earth.
"...Josei Toda always said: 'The Soka Gakkai is a gathering of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth entrusted by Nichiren Daishonin to propagate the Mystic Law in the present age, the Latter Day of the Law. It is an organisation functioning in complete accord with the Buddha's intent and decree.'"
SGI Newsletter No. 8211, The New Human Revolution--Vol. 24: Chap. 2, Vigilant Safeguarding 43, translated April 14th, 2011
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
SA YUKI RINRIN TO
KYO ICHINICHI O KATE!
FUKAKI INORI O KOMETA
"KOE NO CHIKARA" HODO
TSUYOI MONO WA NAI!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KUROGANE WA KITAI UTEBA TSURUGI TO NARU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 958)
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