Friday, November 11th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
All of our SGI community centres are castles
for the peace and happiness of our local communities.
To all of those members who protect
and take care of these precious centres, thank you all so much.
Each and every day let's constantly be careful
about the risk of causing a fire
and locking up when everyone leaves
so that there is never any kind of accident or incident.
Friday, November 11th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Hence, if the Law that one embraces is supreme, then the person who embraces it must accordingly be foremost among all others."
(Questions and Answers about Embracing the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 61) Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, November 11th, 2011
Saturday, November 12th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Russian author Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) wrote: 'The life of [the human being] is aspiration towards human good, and aspiration toward human good is human life.'[1]
"The power within our lives that propels us in the direction of human good is, in terms of the teachings of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism, the power or life force that wells forth from our Buddhahood to strive for the happiness of both ourselves and others. How do we tap this innate power so that we can continue advancing limitlessly and create a new age? The most fundamental way is to live with a sense of appreciation and gratitude—more specifically, it is to recognise and strive to repay our debts of gratitude to others."
SGI Newsletter No. 8373, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory, [32] "The Four Debts of Gratitude"[1], Gratitude Is the Driving Force for Unlimited Development, from the Sep. 2011 issue of the Daibyaku Renge, translated Nov. 11th, 2011
[1] Leo Tolstoy, On Life, translated by Mabel and Agnes Cook (Christchurch, England: The Free Age Press, 1902), p. 80.
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
GAKKAI NO KAIKAN WA
CHIIKI NO ANSHIN TO KOFUKU NO SHIRO.
HOJO O MAMORU TOMO NI KANSHA!
KASAI, TOJIMARI NI CHUI SHI
ZETTAI MUJIKO NO HIBI O!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"TAMOTARURU HO DANIMO DAIICHI NARABA TAMOTSU HITO SHITAGATTE DAIICHI NARU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 465)
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