Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
How important it is for us to triumph over the challenges
that we face this very day.
How important it is to also win over our own shortcomings.
Our unrelenting and ever progressing advancement
in faith and practice,
based on the spirit of "Faith equals Daily Life,"
is the direct path, the shortest route to achieving victory in life!
Tuesday, May 31st, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"When we revere Myoho-renge- kyo inherent in our own life as the object of devotion, the Buddha nature within us is summoned forth and manifested by our chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. This is what is meant by 'Buddha.'"
(How Those Initially Aspiring to the Way Can Attain Buddhahood through the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 887)
Selection source: "YWD Gosho Study for May", Seikyo Online, May 2011
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Be tenacious. Win through making persistent efforts.
"The Japanese historian and renowned Yale professor Kan'ichi Asakawa (1873-1948), who hailed from Tohoku's Fukushima Prefecture, wrote: 'People are not so weak as to be controlled by their circumstances,' and 'I hope you will rise above sorrow rather than be crushed beneath it.' These words echo my own sentiments.
"Human beings have the strength to rise above all sorrow and suffering. All of us without exception were born in this world to become happy. There is no hardship that we cannot overcome. The greater the difficulty, the more tenaciously we must continue to tackle it. This is how we can bring forth the fundamental strength for achieving ultimate victory. This is a rule seen throughout history, applying both to the lives of individuals and the rise of civilisations. Persistence is the mother of success, the wellspring of happiness, and the light of victory."
SGI Newsletter No. 8239, You Have an Unfathomably Profound Mission. SGI President Ikeda, founder of Soka University, sent the following message to the 37th class of Soka University and the 25th class of Soka Women's College upon their graduation in March 2011. From the March 21st, 2011, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated May 24th, 2011
* Apologies...May 30th's Daily Encouragement was NOT from SGI Newsletter No. 8241 but from the above mentioned SGI Newsletter.
* 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 ---
KYO O KATSU KOTO DA!
JIBUN NI KATSU KOTO DA!
[SHINJIN SOKU SEIKATSU] NO
TAEZARU ZENSHIN KOSO
JINSEI SHORI NO O-DO NARI!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"WAGA KOSHIN NO MYOHORENGEKYO O HONZON TO AGAME TATEMATSURITE WAGA KOSHINSHU NO BUSSHO NAM MYOHO RENGE KYO TO YOBI YOBARETE ARAWARE TAMAU TOKORO O HOTOKE TOWA IUNARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 557)
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