A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The most important point about encouraging someone
is to listen rather than to speak.
First and foremost let's try to grasp what the situation is.
The courage and strength to move ahead
comes from the warmth of someone's empathy.
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And could not this illness of your husband's be the Buddha's design,
because the Vimalakirti and Nirvana sutras both teach that sick people
will surely attain Buddhahood? Illness gives rise to the resolve to
attain the way."
(The Good Medicine for All Ills - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 937)
Selection source: Gosho for June, Seikyo Shimbun, June 3rd, 2014
Wednesday, June 11th, 2014
—— DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Kosen-rufu is the struggle to ensure that the brilliant light of the Mystic Law endures forever and to help all people attain enlightenment. Naturally, it is an endeavour that cannot be achieved in a single lifetime. For that very reason, we must ensure that the Lotus Sutra's fundamental aim of leading all living beings to the Buddha way is never lost but passed on to future generations.
"The path of mentor and disciple is dedicated to keeping alive this essential wish of the Buddha—the widespread propagation of the Mystic Law, or kosen-rufu—securely passing on the baton of this lofty cause as in a relay race, handed from one runner to the next. The great vow for kosen-rufu can only be fulfilled through the correct teaching of Buddhism being transmitted from mentor to disciple."
SGI Newsletter No. 9011, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory. Special Lecture Commemorating May 3, Soka Gakkai Day, Uniting with Eternal Friends toward a New Age of the People's Triumph, from the May 2014 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 9th June, 2014
* 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--
HAGEMASHI NO YOTEI WA
[HANASU] YORI [KIKU].
MAZU [RIKAI SURU].
ZENSHI E NO YUKI TO CHIKARA WA
ATATAKANA KYOKAN KARA!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KONO YAMAI WA HOTOKE NO ONHAKARAI KA SONO YUE WA JOMYOKYO NEHANGYO
NIWA YAMAI ARU HITO HOTOKE NI NARUBEKI YOSHI TOKARETE SORO YAMAI NI
YORITE DOSHIN WA OKORI SORO NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu page 1480)
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http://www.sgi.org/
http://www.sgi-uk.org/buddhism/practise
Check out the following address if you are looking for an important gosho quote
http://www.nichirenlibrary.org
And for the children there's a wonderful new web-site
http://treasures-of-heart.com/
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