Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin states,
"Iron, when heated in the flames and pounded, becomes a fine sword."*
Youth, now is the time to train yourselves in order to become strong.
Muster up your courage, take on each challenge that confronts you now,
and establish the solid foundations for a truly victorious life!
*"Worthies and sages are tested by abuse." - "Letter from Sado", WND-I, page 303
Sunday, July 3rd, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Or it is like the case of a single flame, no bigger than the light of a firefly, which, when applied to a thousand-ri plain of dried grass, in the space of an instant burns first one blade of grass, then two, then ten, a hundred, a thousand, and ten thousand, so that the grass and trees over an area of ten or twenty cho are consumed all at once."
(The Teaching That Accords with the Buddha's Mind - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 967)
Selection source: "Myoji no Gen", Seikyo Shimbun, July 3rd, 2011
Monday, July 4th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The famous linguist and lexicographer Fumihiko Otsuki (1847-1928), who had a close connection to Tohoku, compiled the first modern Japanese-language dictionary, titled Genkai (Sea of Words). Assembling and editing this massive collection of nearly 40,000 words was a time-consuming and arduous task that took Otsuki 17 years to complete. During that period, he lost his beloved infant daughter and wife in quick succession, but he stoically persevered.
"What sustained him in his undertaking? The words of his grandfather, the renowned physician Gentaku Otsuki (1757-1827), which he had engraved in his heart as a youth: 'Don't stop until you succeed.'"
SGI Newsletter No. 8265, Learning Is the Light That Illuminates Society, translated June 24th, 2011, from the May 9th, 2011, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun
* 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 ---
"KURAGANE WA KITAI UTEBA
TSURUGI TO NARU"
SEINEN YO KITAE NO TOKI DA!
ISANDE KANNAN NI IDOMI
JINSEI SHORI NO ISHIZUE O KIZUKE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SENRI NO NO NO KARETARU KUSA NI HOTARUBI NO GOTOKU NARU HI O HITOTSU TSUKENUREBA SHUYU NI ISSO NISO JU HYAKU SENMANSO NI TSUKIWATARITE MOYUREBA JUCCHO NIJUCCHO NO SOMOKU ICHIJI NI YAKETSUKINU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1435)
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