Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Capable people are nurtured by praising and showing our appreciation for them.
At the same time it is important to do activities with them, too.
"If we try, we can do it!"
It is this enthusiasm and conviction that
is the driving force for our growth and development!
Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Because I view things this way, I feel immeasurable delight even though I am now an exile."
(The True Aspect of All Phenomena - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 386)
Selection source: Editorial, Feb 15th, 2012
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
""The Teacher of the Law" (10th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra clearly states: "If one of these good men or good women in the time after I have passed into extinction is able to secretly expound the Lotus Sutra to one person, even one phrase of it, then you should know that he or she is the envoy of the Thus Come One. He has been dispatched by the Thus Come One and carries out the Thus Come One's work" (LSOC10, 200). When we reach out to talk to others about the Daishonin's Buddhism—whether or not our efforts lead to the other person taking faith—we are carrying out "the Thus Come One's work," namely, the work of the Buddha, and accumulating vast and immeasurable benefit.
"My mentor, second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda, put it very simply: "No one in the suffering-filled saha world is free of problems or worries. That is why the Buddha is compelled to encourage others and lead them to enlightenment. This is the spirit of propagation of the Lotus Sutra." Buddhahood pulses spontaneously in our care and concern for others and in our efforts to speak to them about Buddhism out of a sincere wish for their happiness."
SGI Newsletter No. 8459, Our Brilliant Path to Victory, The February Campaign[1] of the New Age—Part 2 [of 2], from the Feb. 8th, 2012, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translated Feb. 27th, 2012
[1] February Campaign: In February 1952, President Ikeda, then an adviser to Tokyo's Kamata Chapter, initiated a dynamic propagation campaign. Together with the Kamata members, he broke through the previous monthly record of some 100 new member households by introducing the Daishonin's Buddhism to 201 new member households.
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
JINZAI WA HOMETE NOBASE.
ISSHO NI UGOITE SODATEYO.
[YAREBA DEKIRU !]
KONO KANKI TO JISHIN KOSO
OOI NARU SEICHO NO CHIKARA DA!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KAKUNO GOTOKU OMOI TSUZUKETE SORAEBA RUNIN NAREDOMO KIETSU HAKARI NASHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1360)
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