Sunday, January 8th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
A "Youth" is someone who continually
strives to improve themselves.
Better today than yesterday,
more tomorrow than today,
let's enthusiastically challenge ourselves
each and every day.
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The great lantern that illuminates the long night of the sufferings of birth and death, the sharp sword that severs the fundamental darkness inherent in life, is none other than the Lotus Sutra."
(A Comparison of the Lotus and Other Sutras - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 1038)
Selection source: Myoji no Gen, Seikyo Shimbun, January 7th, 2012
Sunday, January 8th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Continue to scale
the mountain of kosen-rufu,
reaching even higher,
confident that you possess
the infinite power of the Buddha.
"Three decades ago (in 1981), I composed the long poem, 'Youth, Scale the Mountain of Kosen-rufu of the 21st Century!' [1] It opens with a stanza citing the spirit of the famous British mountaineer George Mallory (1886–1924), who, incidentally, was a friend of historian Dr. Arnold J. Toynbee. The lines read: 'Why do I climb mountains? Because they are there!'
"Mallory, who believed that aspiration and endeavour were life-giving,[2] remarked that he found 'a close correspondence between the intensity of the struggle and the keenness of enjoyment.'[3] The mountaineer's insight resonates with the profound Buddhist teaching that earthly desires lead to enlightenment.
"It is by bravely taking on challenging mountains of life's trials and tribulations that we can bring forth our inner strength."
SGI Newsletter No. 8402, 54th Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders Meeting. Let's Continue Our Joyous Ascent of the Mountain of Kosen-rufu!, from the Dec. 4th, 2011, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Dec. 14th, 2011
[1] Initially composed and presented in Oita Prefecture, Kyushu, Japan, in December 1981, the poem was revised by President Ikeda in 1999. See SGI Newsletter No. 3876.
[2] David Robertson, George Mallory (London: Faber and Faber, 1999), p. 220.
[3] Ibid,. p. 142.
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
"SEINEN" TOWA
SEICHO SHITSUZUKERU HITO DA!
KINO YORIMO KYO
KYO YORIMO ASU ETO
HARIKITTE SUSUME!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SHOJI NO CHOYA O TERASU DAITO GANPON NO MUMYO O KIRU RIKEN WA KONO HOMON NI SUGIZARUKA"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 991)
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