A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo
Shimbun and more.
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
October, the month of the harvest season has arrived.
The drama of achieving decisive victories starts right where we are,
right now!
With the fresh determination to spur ourselves on more than ever before,
let us all make this month a meaningful one and open up a whole new era for the SGI!
Saturday, October 1st, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Life is limited; we must not begrudge it. What we should ultimately aspire to is the Buddha land."
(Aspiration for the Buddha Land - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 214)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, October 1st, 2011
Sunday, October 2nd, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Nichiren Buddhism teaches: 'The place where the person upholds and honours the Lotus Sutra is the "place of practice" to which the person proceeds' (OTT, 192). In other words, the place where we are engaged in our Buddhist faith and practice is the place where we are striving to attain enlightenment. As a result, our struggle as Buddhists is not to search for some distant utopia, but instead to recognise that the place where we live now is the ideal place to carry out our Buddhist practice and make it into a 'land of tranquil light.'"
SGI Newsletter No. 8339, The New Human Revolution, Vol. 24: Chap. 4, Beacon 34, translated Sep. 29th, 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
--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
SA MINORI NO JUGATSU!
SHORI NO "drama" WA
IMA KOKOKARA HAJIMARU!
IYOIYO NO KOKORO DE
SOKA NO SHINJIDAI O HIRAKE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"NOCHI KAGIRI ARI OSHIMU BEKARAZU TSUINI NEGAU BEKI WA BUKKOKU NARI (Gosho Zenshu, page 955)
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