Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Nichiren Daishonin says:
"Regard your service to your lord
as the practice of the Lotus Sutra."*
It's where we're working right now
that is the ideal training ground
for us to grow and challenge ourselves.
It's important to try our absolute best at work
and raise a flag of victory, without fail!
* Reply to a Believer - WND 1, page 905, "Regard your service to your lord as the practice of the Lotus Sutra. This is what is meant by 'No worldly affairs of life or work are ever contrary to the true reality.'"
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Just as flowers open up and bear fruit, just as the moon appears and invariably grows full, just as a lamp becomes brighter when oil is added, and just as plants and trees flourish with rain, so will human beings never fail to prosper when they make good causes."
(The Third Day of the New Year - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1013)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", May 11th, 2011
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Daishonin remarks that even when one cannot do anything concrete for one's parents' benefit, one can at the very least offer them a smile two or three times a day."*
*One . . . is always mindful of providing a parent with all manner of good things, and if this happens to be impossible, in the course of a day one at least smiles twice or thrice in their direction. (WND-2, 636).
SGI Newsletter No. 8224, LEARNING FROM THE WRITINGS OF NICHIREN DAISHONIN: THE TEACHINGS FOR VICTORY, [26] 'On the Offering of a Mud Pie', from the March 2011 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translated April 28th, 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 ---
[ON MIYAZUKAI O
HOKEKYO TO OBOSHIMESE]
IMA IRU SHOKUBA KOSO
SEICHO TO CHOSEN NO DOJO.
DANJITE SHORI NO HATA O!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"HANA WA HIRAITE KONOMI TO NARI TSUKI WA IDETE KANARAZU MICHI TOMOSHIBI WA ABURA O SASEBA HIKARI O MASHI SOMOKU WA AME FUREBA SAKAU HITO WA ZENKON O NASEBA KANARAZU SAKAU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1562)
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