Sunday, December 11th, 2011
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin encourages us to "treat our friends with courtesy."*
With the utmost of sincerity,
let's strengthen the bonds we have with our old friends.
And with a friendly smile and bright cheerful greeting,
let's make every effort to establish new friendships.
*"... treating one's friends with courtesy means that, although one may encounter them ten or twenty times in the course of a single day, one greets them courteously as though they had traveled a thousand or two thousand miles to see one, never showing them indifference." - "The Four Virtues and the Four Debts of Gratitude", WND-II, page 636
Sunday, December 11th, 2011
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If a person cannot manage to cross a moat ten feet wide, how can he cross one that is a hundred or two hundred feet?"
(The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. , page 766)
Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's poem, Seikyo Shimbun, December 11th, 2011
Monday, December 12th, 2011
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"What is the greatest joy in life?
"The Japanese bacteriologist Hideyo Noguchi (1876–1928), who was born in Tohoku's Fukushima Prefecture 135 years ago, said: 'For me, it lies in befriending the poor and suffering, and going to their aid.'[1]
"Reaching out to the person in front of us who is suffering, empathising with them, and helping them find a new lease on life—Noguchi concluded that this was the key to enjoying true fulfillment in life. Our efforts based on the philosophy of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism are at the very forefront of such caring and altruistic actions."
SGI Newsletter No. 8388, Our Brilliant Path to Victory, Youth Festivals for the Future—Part 2 [of 2], translated Nov. 25th, 2011, from the Oct. 9th, 2011, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun.
[1] Translated from Japanese. Hideyo Noguchi, Hideyo Noguchi: Sono Shogai to Jisseki (Hideyo Noguchi: His Life and Accomplishment), (Tokyo: Kodan-sha, 1977), vol. 2 (Letters), p. 73.
* 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 ---
"TOMO NI AUTE REI ARE"
SEIJITSU NA FURUMAI DE
KYUYU TONO KIZUNA O TSUYOMEYO!
EGAO TO KOEKAKE DE
ARATANA YUJO O MUSUBE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"ICHIJO NO HORI O KOENU MONO JUJO NIJUJO NO HORI O KOU BEKIKA"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 912)
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