A translation of President Ikeda's "Words of the Week" published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
October 10th-16th, 2011
---- WORD OF THE WEEK ----
It is through making ceaseless efforts for kosen-rufu
that we can elevate our life condition.
The Daishonin states,
"Nam-myoho-renge-kyo embraces both
the converting of others and one's own religious practice."*
Let's courageously engage ourselves in dialogue with others
and share this Buddhism with as many people as we possibly can!
*Ongi kuden - Gosho Zenshu, page 747, The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 109
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"When I, Nichiren, first took faith in the Lotus Sutra, I was like a single drop of water or a single particle of dust in all the country of Japan. But later, when two people, three people, ten people, and eventually a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand, and a million people come to recite the Lotus Sutra and transmit it to others, then they will form a Mount Sumeru of perfect enlightenment, an ocean of great nirvana. Seek no other path by which to attain Buddhahood!"
(The Selection of the Time - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 580) Selection sourse: President Ikeda's message, Seikyo Shimbun, October 10th, 2011
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---
"Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism is the Buddhism of sowing. It plants the seed for attaining Buddhahood, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, in the lives of living beings of the Latter Day of the Law who have never heard the true teachings of Buddhism. It is the great teaching for leading all to genuine happiness by enabling them to attain Buddhahood in this lifetime.
"Our actions, as practitioners of this Buddhism dedicated to our mission for kosen-rufu, must all be connected to this act of sowing. In other words, we need to cultivate an awareness that everything, from our daily Soka Gakkai activities to our attitudes and behaviour in daily life, is part of this important task of sowing the seeds of the Mystic Law.
"It's important to sincerely wish for the happiness of those who haven't yet started practicing this faith or are opposed to it, to embrace them with a broadminded spirit and interact with them with a warm smile, trying to be their friends. This is the way that connections to Buddhism are formed and spread far and wide."
SGI Newsletter No. 8351, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 24: Chap. 4, Beacon 49, translated Oct. 7th, 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
-- KONSHU NO KOTOBA ---
TAYUMANU KODO NO NAKA DE
JISHIN NO KYOGAI WA HIRAKARERU.
"NANMYOHORENGEKYO WA
JIGYO KETA NI WARARU NARI"
KAKUDAI E YUKI NO TAIWA O!
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