Translations of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" and "Words of the Week" published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Monday, October 24th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The appearance of new SGI members is indeed
the greatest joy for us all.
Our warmest and happiest congratulations
to all those people who have newly joined us.
Based always on the basics of faith, practice and study,
let's advance together along the great path to happiness.
Monday, October 24th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"What can we say, then, of persons who are devoting themselves to Buddhism? Surely they should not forget the debts of gratitude they owe to their parents, their teachers, and their country.
But if one intends to repay these great debts of gratitude, one can hope to do so only if one learns and masters Buddhism, becoming a person of wisdom."
(On Repaying Debts of Gratitude - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1,page 690)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, October 24th, 2011
October 24th-30th, 2011
---- WORD OF THE WEEK ----
Let's put all of our effort into mustering up
our youthful passion and power.
Let's call forth two, three,
and a hundred young Bodhisattvas of the Earth,
emerging one after another from the earth to this world.*
*"At first only Nichiren chanted Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, but then two, three, and a hundred followed, chanting and teaching others. Propagation will unfold this way in the future as well. Does this not signify 'emerging from the earth' ?"
- "The True Aspect of All Phenomena", WND-I, page 385
* 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 ---
SHIN NYUKAI NO TOMO NO TANJO WA
ZENDOSHI NO SAIKO NO YOROKOBI.
HONTO NI OMEDETO!
SHIN GYO GAKU NO JISSEN DE
TOMODOMO NI KOFUKU NO DAIDO O!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
BUKKYO O NARAWAN MONO FUBO SHISHO KOKUON O WASURU BESHIYA KONO DAION O HOZEN NIWA KANARAZU BUPPO O NARAI KIWAME CHISHA TO NARADE KANAU BEKI KA
(Gosho Zenshu, page 293)
--- KONSHU NO KOTOBA ---
SEINEN NO NETSU TO CHIKARA O
MINA DE KYUGO SHIYO!
WAKAKI JIYU NO JINRETSU O
"NININ SANNIN HYAKUNIN TO"
WARERA NO DAICHI NI YOBI IDASE!
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