Friday, March 16th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Young people you are our hope.
You are the driving force that will set the direction of our future.
Come, let's set out towards achieving the very peak of success
in fresh new challenges
and fulfil our vow to achieve kosen-rufu.
To glory, to victory!
Friday, March 16th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"A sword is useless in the hands of a coward. The mighty sword of the Lotus Sutra must be wielded by one courageous in faith. Then one will be as strong as a demon armed with an iron staff."
(Reply to Kyo'o - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 412)
Selection source: Kyo no Hosshin, Seikyo Shimbun, March 16th, 2012
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In the Daishonin's day—and, in many cases, even today—we find a deeply rooted view that we are but small, insignificant beings and the ultimate reality and eternal value lies somewhere outside of us, somewhere far away. Such a way of thinking is inextricably connected with belief in some otherworldly, supernatural power.
"Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism, however, rejects this idea completely. It teaches the true reality of life in which the eternal and ultimate Law is manifested in the physical beings of the ordinary people, living right here and now.
"The term Buddha, after all, means "enlightened one." To what did the Buddha become enlightened? To that which should form the true basis of our life—namely, the Law and the true essence of our being. He awoke to the universal Law permeating all phenomena, which had previously been obscured by fundamental darkness,[1] and to the greatness of each individual's life that is one and indivisible with that Law."
SGI Newsletter No. 8466, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory, [35] "The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon", from the December 2011 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated March 6th, 2012
[1] Fundamental darkness: The most deeply rooted illusion inherent in life, said to give rise to all other illusions. The inability to see or recognize the truth, particularly, the true nature of one's life.
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
SEINEN KOSO KIBO.
MIRAI O HIRAKU GENDORYOKU.
SA ARATANA CHOSEN NO MINE E
CHIKAI NO DAIKOSHIN O!
EIKO TO SHORI ARE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"TSURUGI NANDOMO SUSUMAZARU HITO NO TAME NIWA MOCHIIRU KOTO NASHI HOKEKYO NO TSURUGI WA SHINJIN NO KENAGE NARU HITO KOSO MOCHIIRU KOTO NARE ONI NI KANABO TARU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1124)
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