Friday, April 1st, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
April is at last here!
Looking towards a hope-filled future,
let's all advance together as one in mind.
Let's fill our neighbourhoods
with a wonderful fresh spring breeze of our warm conversation.
Friday, April 1st, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If in a single moment of life we exhaust the pains and trials of millions of kalpas, then instant after instant there will arise in us the three Buddha bodies with which we are eternally endowed. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is just such a 'diligent' practice."
(Ongi kuden - Gosho Zenshu, page 790, The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 214)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, April 1st, 2011
Saturday, April 2nd, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"As Shakyamuni Buddha stated in the Nirvana Sutra: 'Suppose that a couple has seven children, one of whom falls ill. Though the parents love all their children equally, they worry most about the sick child' (WND-1, 535). Although the Buddha's compassion encompasses all people, it is especially directed to those who are suffering or
facing adversity.
"To overlook no one; to judge no one; to abandon no one; to have complete faith in another person and reach out to them and awaken their Buddha nature--this is the humanistic spirit of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism.
"Sincere encouragement can give someone who is lost and confused the courage to take that first step forwards. Encouragement kindles courage in others' hearts. In this way, the invincible courage of Soka spreads in an unending ripple effect."
SGI Newsletter No. 8184, Editorial from the April 2011 issue of Daibyakurenge, The Invincible Courage of Soka, translated March 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 ---
SA SHIGATSU GA TORAI!
KIBO NI MUKATTE
KOKORO HITOTSU NI SHUPPATSU SHIYO!
TAIWA NO HARUKAZE DE
WAGA CHIIKI O TSUTSUME!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"ICHINEN NI OKUGO NO SHINRO O TSUKUSEBA HONRAI MUSA NO SANJIN NEN-NEN NI OKORU NARI IWAYURU MYOHORENGEKYO WA SHOJINGYO NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 790)
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