Sunday, March 18th, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
A person with an appreciative heart is bright and cheerful.
A life dedicated to repaying one's debt of gratitude is strong.
Let's constantly make an effort to show actual proof of this practise
to the people who have placed their belief and support in us
in so many different ways.
Sunday, March 18th, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"... moreover you have encountered the Lotus Sutra. If you live even one day longer, you can accumulate that much more benefit."
(On Prolonging One's Life Span - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 955)
Selection source: SGI President's poem, Seikyo Shimbun, March 18th, 2012
Monday, March 19th, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'The Gohonzon exists only within the mortal flesh of us ordinary people'—the real significance of this statement is that the Gohonzon inscribed by the Daishonin functions as the means by which we can awaken to and call forth the Gohonzon (the Buddhahood) within us. When we chant before the physical Gohonzon, the very same Gohonzon is in our heart; it clearly manifests itself there when we chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo for the happiness of ourselves and others.
"...Mr. Toda said: 'Nichiren Daishonin's life is Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, so our lives, as his disciples, are also Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.'[1] On another occasion, he declared: 'When we embrace faith in the Mystic Law, the fundamental power of Nichiren Daishonin wells up in response from within our beings, and we, too, reveal our true self—that is, our true enlightened nature that is one with the eternal, unchanging reality.'[2]
SGI Newsletter No. 8466, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory, [35] "The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon", The Gohonzon Exists within Us, from the December 2011 issue of Daibyakurenge, translated March 6th, 2012
[1] Translated from Japanese. Josei Toda, Toda Josei Zenshu (The Collected Writings of Josei Toda), (Tokyo: Seikyo Shimbunsha, 1985), vol. 5, p. 271.
[2] Translated from Japanese. Josei Toda, Toda Josei Zenshu (The Collected Writings of Josei Toda), (Tokyo: Seikyo Shimbunsha, 1992), vol. 2, p. 11.
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
KANSHA NO KOKORO WA AKARUI.
HO-ON NO JINSEI WA TSUYOI.
SASAETE KURETA
ANO HITO KONO HITO NI
KOTAEYUKU KIMI DE ARE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"SHIKASHITE HOKEKYO NI AWASE TAMAINU ICHINICHI MO IKITE OWASEBA KUDOKU TSUMORU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 986)
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