Friday, July 1st, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The path that we're advancing along is the path towards happiness.
Our voices are the voices aspiring for the establishment of peace.
Let's resolve now, to make a fresh new start to the month of July!
Friday, July 1st, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."
(On Prayer - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 345)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, July 1st, 2011
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'The [Lotus] sutra says, '[They are] unsoiled by worldly things like the lotus flower in the water. Emerging from the earth....' [LSOC15, 263]. Here we see that the Bodhisattvas of the Earth are the lotus of the entity of the Mystic Law, and that the lotus is being used here as a simile.
From 'Cover Letter for "The Entity of the Mystic Law"'(WND-1, 431).
"Life is a battle with our problems and karma. However, in the same way that the lotus growing in a muddy swamp brings forth pure and fragrant blossoms, we can bring happiness and victory to bloom in our lives and help others do the same. This is the way of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth whose lives are 'like the lotus flower in the water' (LSOC15, 263).
"Those who sincerely chant and actually spread the Mystic Law in society brim with the great life-force of Buddhas and bodhisattvas. Each of you, our noble members, is an entity of the Mystic Law. Please remember that, no matter where you are, that is the place for you to fulfil your mission from time without beginning."
SGI Newsletter No. 8268, LIVING THE GOSHO: WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT FROM SGI PRESIDENT IKEDA, (37) Like the Lotus Flower, translated June 29th, 2011, from the June 25th, 2011, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, the Soka Gakkai daily newspaper.
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
WATASHITACHI NO MICHI WA
KOFUKU ENO MICHI.
WATASHITACHI NO KOE WA
HEIWA ENO KOE.
SA 7 GATSU O SHUPPATSU!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"DAICHI WA SASABE HAZURURU TOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI IZURU TOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1351)
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