Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Spring has come,
the best season to develop friendships with others!
Let's all make a courageous stride forwards
in our friendships with others.
By having heart-to-heart conversations in our neighbourhood,
with as many people as we can,
let's kindle a ray of light which helps people
to gain a feeling of safeness and peace of mind.
Sunday, April 3rd, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is like the roar of a lion. What sickness can therefore be an obstacle?"
(Reply to Kyo'o - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 412)
Selection source: Soka Gakkai member's experience, Seikyo Shimbun, April 3rd, 2011
Monday, April 4th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"...as a Buddhist, you need to be committed to advancing along your chosen path.
"The only pathway to true happiness is to act based on your own convictions, deriving from the teachings of Buddhism, and not worry about how others may judge you.
"...Buddhism teaches about the workings of karma. Bad causes produce negative effects, and good causes produce positive effects. Moreover, this law applies throughout past, present, and future. One's thoughts, words, and deeds in the past are causes that produce effects in one's present, and one's conducts in the present will result in effects in the future.
"As Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'One who slights another will in turn be despised' (WND-1, 305). Everything is up to the individual. Both positive and negative effects in one's life are the results of one's own actions. The way to transform the negative karma one has formed and create the most positive effects possible is through practising the true teachings of Buddhism and dedicating oneself to kosen-rufu. This is the great pathway to certain and unshakable happiness. Buddhist practitioners should strive to live out their lives with an understanding that Buddhas and bodhisattvas throughout the universe are aware of their actions, based on the causality of life.
"... The courageous actions engraved in our lives will become the power to open a brilliant future. The difficult road of adversity will become a golden path leading to the summit of victory."
SGI Newsletter No. 8198, The New Human Revolution--Vol. 24: Chap. 2, Vigilant Safeguarding 27, translated March 31st, 2011
* The Japanese kanji for To My Friends is available by clicking on Seikyo Shimbun's web-site address at
http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html
--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
SA YUKO NO HARU!
YUKI NO IPPO O
IKIOI YOKU FUMIDASO!
KOKORO KAYOU KATARAI DE
CHIIKI NI ANSHIN NO HIKARI O!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"NANMYOHORENGEKYO WA SHISHIKU NO GOTOSHI IKANARU YAMAI SAWARI O NASU BEKIYA"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1124)
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