[SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] 3rd Oct To My Friends & Daily Gosho + 3rd-9th Words of the Week

 

Translations of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" and "Words of the Week" published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.

Monday, October 3rd, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's talk about this Buddhism with as many young people as we possibly can.
Let's find youths, with all their great potential,
and raise them into truly capable people.
Starting in our very own districts,
let's build a new lineup of Boddhisattvas of the Earth.

Monday, October 3rd, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"This life is like a dream. One cannot be sure that one will live until tomorrow. However wretched a beggar you might become, never disgrace the Lotus Sutra."

(A Warning against Begrudging One's Fief - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. 1, page 824)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, October 3rd, 2011

October 3rd-9th, 2011
---- WORD OF THE WEEK ----
The Daishonin states,
"The daimoku of the Lotus Sutra is like the roar of a lion"*
The sound of the Mystic Law has invincible power.
Let's take on new challenges with our vibrant and resonant gongyo and daimoku
and at the end of the day come out successful and triumphant!

*"Now that we have entered the Latter Day of the Law, to chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is to be an Awesome Sound King. The reason is that the word 'Sound' stands for the daimoku, or titles, of all various provisional teachings, while the 'Awesome' stands for the five characters of the title [of the Lotus Sutra, Myoho-renge-kyo]. And the word 'King' stands for the practitioners of the Lotus Sutra. The daimoku of the Lotus Sutra is like the roar of a lion, while the other sutras are like the cries of the other beasts. The Lotus Sutra is referred to as 'king' because it is 'king of the sutras' (chapter twenty-three, Medicine King)." - "Ongi kuden", Gosho Zenshu, page 764, The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 152

* 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 ---
SEINEN NI BUPPO O KATARO!
WAKAKI JINZAI O
MITSUKE SODATEYO!
WAGA CHIKU KARA
ATARASHIKI JIYU NO JINRETSU O!

-- KYO NO GOSHO --
ISSHO WA YUME NO UE ASU O GOSEZU IKANARU KOTSUJIKI NIWA NARUTOMO HOKEKYO NI KIZU O TSUKE TAMAU BEKARAZU (Gosho Zenshu, page 1163)

--- KONSHU NO KOTOBA ---
"HOKKE NO DAIMOKU WA
SHISHI NO HOYURU GA GOTOKU"
MYOHO NO ONJO WA MUTEKI NO CHIKARA DA.
IKIIKITO ROROTO
GONGYO SHODAI DE KACHI HIRAKE!

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