Friday, March 2nd, 2012
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Our future depends on the growth of our young people.
My dear young friends,
stand up as brave courageous individuals who consistently take action!
Challenge yourselves, with patience and perseverance,
and live out your precious youth victoriously,
without any regrets.
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"This life is like a dream. One cannot be sure that one will live until tomorrow. However wretched a beggar you might become, never disgrace the Lotus Sutra."
(A Warning against Begrudging One's Fief - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 824)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, March 2nd, 2012
Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Whether a person who has heard about Buddhism chooses to accept it or not is up to them. What matters is how many people we're able to share Buddhism with, based on our genuine desire for their happiness.
"It goes without saying that a strong desire to have those you talk to begin practising this faith for themselves is very important, since our goal is for each person's true happiness through accepting this Buddhism. But even if they don't accept this Buddhism, there's no need to be disillusioned or disappointed.
"Try talking to one person. If it doesn't go well, try talking to two more people. If that still doesn't work out, try three, five, ten, and if ten are unfruitful, then try twenty. If twenty doesn't work out, then try thirty, and forty. The point is just to keep sharing this Buddhism, with conviction and in high spirits. All those efforts will be transformed into benefit and good fortune, a force for transforming your karma."
SGI Newsletter No. 8462, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 25: Chap. 2, Shared Struggle 17, translated March 1st, 2012
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--- WAGATOMO NI OKURU ---
SEINEN NO SEICHO GA
MIRAI O KIMERU.
KIMI YO YUKAN NI HITORI TATE!
KUI NAKI SEISHUN O
NINTAI DE KACHI KAZARE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"ISSHO WA YUME NO UE ASU O GOSEZU IKANARU KOTSUJIKI NIWA NARUTOMO HOKEKYO NI KIZU O TSUKE TAMAU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1163)
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