Translations of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" and "Words of the Week" published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Monday, February 20th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's start every meeting punctually and use the time we have effectively.
By seriously chanting about a meeting beforehand and preparing carefully,
a good momentum is created and everyone is naturally inspired to say:
"OK, let's go for it!"
Monday, February 20th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Though a person may have been fortunate enough to be born as a human being and may have even entered the priesthood, if he fails to study the Buddha's teaching and to refute its slanderers but simply spends his time in idleness and chatter, then he is no better than an animal dressed in priestly robes."
(The Fourteen Slanders - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 760)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, February 20th, 2012
February 20th-26th, 2012
---- Words of the Week ----
"Winter always turns to spring."*
Let's share this great hope-filled philosophy
with as many people as we possibly can, confidently and enthusiastically!
Our own personal experience is what inspires others.
And its the conviction that we have for this practice which moves people's hearts.
*"Those who believe in the Lotus Sutra are as if in winter, but winter always turns to spring. Never, from ancient times on, has anyone heard or seen of winter turning back to autumn. Nor have we ever heard of a believer in the Lotus Sutra who turned into an ordinary person. The sutra reads, 'If there are those who hear the Law, then not a one will fail to attain Buddhahood.'" - "Winter Always Turns to Spring", WND-I, page 536
*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 ---
IKKAI IKKAI NO KAIGO O
JIKAN GENSHU DE KACHITEKI NI!
JIZEN NO INORI TO JUMBI KARA
"SA YARO!" TONO
IKIOI GA UMARERU.
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"UKEGATAKI JINSHIN O ETE TAMATAMA SHUKKE SERU MONO MO BUPPO O GAKUSHI HOBO NO MONO O SEMEZU SHITE ITAZURANI YUGE ZODAN NOMI SHITE AKASHI KURASAN MONO WA HOSSHI NO KAWA O KITARU CHIKUSHO NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1386)
--- KONSHU NO KOTOBA ---
"FUYU WA KANARAZU HARU TO NARU"
KIBO NO DAI-TETSUGAKU O
IKIIKI TO KATARE!
"TAIKEN" GA KOKORO NI HIBIKU.
"KAKUSHIN" GA KOKORO O UGOKASU.
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