A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
— TO MY FRIENDS —
Aspire for the very best, for the very highest!
Take action, starting from right where your feet are now!
Clearly articulate your focus points of your daimoku
and take one level-headed and at the same time powerful step in the direction you aspire to.
Through such a practice, let's adorn our life with good fortune, fulfilment and supreme happiness.*
* Gosho (Letter to the Lay Priest Domyo - WND1, pg. 750), Concerning
prayer, there are conspicuous prayer and conspicuous response,
conspicuous prayer and inconspicuous response, inconspicuous prayer
and inconspicuous response, and inconspicuous prayer and conspicuous
response. But the only essential point is that, if you believe in this sutra,
all your desires will be fulfilled in both the present and the future."
Tuesday, February 25th, 2014
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Exert yourself in the two ways of practice and study. Without
practice and study, there can be no Buddhism. You must not only
persevere yourself; you must also teach others. Both practice and
study arise from faith. Teach others to the best of your ability, even
if it is only a single sentence or phrase."
(The True Aspect of All Phenomena
- The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 386)
Selection source: New Human Revolution, Justice - 44, Feb 22, 2014
Wednesday, February 26th, 2014
—— DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"…the words of the great twentieth-century historian Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) come to mind: 'But we are not doomed to make history repeat itself; it is open to us, through our own efforts, to give history, in our own case, some new and unprecedented turn.'[i]
"To me, this is the challenge of creating value—the process by which each of us, in our respective roles and capacities, strives to create that value which is ours alone to realise in order to benefit our fellow citizens, society as a whole and the future.
"On the occasion of the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), I emphasised that a renewed focus on humanity, reforming and opening up the inner capacities of our lives, is key to enabling effective change and empowerment on a global scale.
"This is what we in the SGI call human revolution. Its focus is empowerment that brings forth the limitless possibilities of each individual. As such, the full significance of human revolution is not realised while it remains confined to a change in the inner life. Rather, the courage and hope that arise from this inner change must enable people to face and break through even the most intractable realities, a process of value creation that ultimately transforms society. The steady accumulation of changes on the individual and community levels paves the path for humanity to surmount the global challenges we face.
"As this process of global transformation advances, smiles return to the faces of those who had been sunk in suffering. People thus empowered to realise the full scope of their possibilities willingly unite in solidarity to confront global issues. The challenge of value creation is that of linking the micro and the macro, the individual and the societal, in ways that reinforce positive transformation on both planes."
SGI Newsletter No. 8935, Value Creation for Global Change: Building Resilient and Sustainable Societies
(SGI President Ikeda's Peace Proposal, commemorating the 39th SGI Day, January 26, 2014.) Released 20th Feb. 2014
[i] Toynbee, Civilisation on Trial, 45.
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
web-site address at
http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html
--WAGATOMO NI OKURU--
"KOKOROZASHI" WA TAKAKU!
KODO WA ASHIMOTO KARA!
MEIKAKU NI INORI O SADAME
CHINCHAKU DE CHIKARAZUYOI IPPO O.
SHOGANMAZOKU NO JINSEI O KAZARE!
- KYO NO GOSHO --
"GYOGAKU NO NIDO O HAGEMI SOROBESHI GYOGAKU TAENABA BUPPO WA ARU
BEKARAZU WAREMO ITASHI HITO OMO KYOKE SORAE GYOGAKU WA SHINJIN YORI
OKORUBEKU SORO CHIKARA ARABA ICHIMON IKKU NARITOMO KATARASE TAMAU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1361)
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