* Summer holidays are now upon us so there may be some delays (as much as 48 hours) in the next week as we move about the world! Hope you don't mind!
…This may also carry on throughout August so we ask for your understanding!
A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
A new phase of development in our lives
begins from a fresh new determination!
Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism is the Buddhism of "true cause!"*
Everything starts from now, this moment onwards!
Let's lead a life of creating value!
*Regarding the spirit of true cause, SGI President Ikeda said in a dialogue with young people, "The past is the past and the future is the future. You should keep moving forwards with a steady eye on the future, telling yourself, 'I'll start from today!' 'I'll start afresh from now, from this moment!' This is the essence of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism of True Cause, the spirit of starting from the
present moment. This is the heart of our daimoku" (World
Tribune,November 1st, 1996, p.11).
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The greatest evil among evils produces consequences that not only affect the perpetrators personally but extend to their sons, their grandsons, and so on down to the seventh generation. And the same is true of the greatest good among good."
Selection source: "Teachings of Buddhism", Seikyo Shimbun, July 12th, 2014
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Happiness isn't given to us; we must attain it ourselves. We ourselves hold the key to the door of happiness.
"In The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, Nichiren Daishonin states: 'Our head corresponds to myo, our throat to ho, our chest to ren, our stomach to ge, and our legs to kyo. Hence this five-foot body of ours constitutes the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo' (OTT, 28). Through faith in the Mystic Law, we can bring forth the life state of Buddhahood within us. Our lives themselves are endowed with a strength and brilliance that even the surging tempests of adversity cannot diminish. Our Buddhist practice is the fundamental means for changing our karma. It is the foundation for winning in life."
SGI Newsletter No. 9044, Opening a New Era of Kosen-rufu Together, (25) Attaining Our Own Happiness, from 5th July, 2014, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translation released 17th, July, 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--
ARATANA KETSUI KARA
ARATANA KENSETU WA HAJIMARU!
NICHIREN BUPPO WA HONNIN MYO.
IMA, KOKO KARA GA SHUPPATSU DA!
KACHI SOZO NO JINSEI TARE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"AKU NO NAKA NO DAIAKU WA WAGAMI NI SONO KU O UKURU NOMI NARAZU KO TO
MAGO TO SUE NANADAI MADEMO KAKARI SOROKERUNARI ZEN NO NAKA NO DAIZEN
MO MATAMATA KAKU NO GOTOSHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1430)
…This may also carry on throughout August so we ask for your understanding!
A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
A new phase of development in our lives
begins from a fresh new determination!
Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism is the Buddhism of "true cause!"*
Everything starts from now, this moment onwards!
Let's lead a life of creating value!
*Regarding the spirit of true cause, SGI President Ikeda said in a dialogue with young people, "The past is the past and the future is the future. You should keep moving forwards with a steady eye on the future, telling yourself, 'I'll start from today!' 'I'll start afresh from now, from this moment!' This is the essence of Nichiren Daishonin's Buddhism of True Cause, the spirit of starting from the
present moment. This is the heart of our daimoku" (World
Tribune,November 1st, 1996, p.11).
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2014
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The greatest evil among evils produces consequences that not only affect the perpetrators personally but extend to their sons, their grandsons, and so on down to the seventh generation. And the same is true of the greatest good among good."
Selection source: "Teachings of Buddhism", Seikyo Shimbun, July 12th, 2014
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Happiness isn't given to us; we must attain it ourselves. We ourselves hold the key to the door of happiness.
"In The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, Nichiren Daishonin states: 'Our head corresponds to myo, our throat to ho, our chest to ren, our stomach to ge, and our legs to kyo. Hence this five-foot body of ours constitutes the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo' (OTT, 28). Through faith in the Mystic Law, we can bring forth the life state of Buddhahood within us. Our lives themselves are endowed with a strength and brilliance that even the surging tempests of adversity cannot diminish. Our Buddhist practice is the fundamental means for changing our karma. It is the foundation for winning in life."
SGI Newsletter No. 9044, Opening a New Era of Kosen-rufu Together, (25) Attaining Our Own Happiness, from 5th July, 2014, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translation released 17th, July, 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--
ARATANA KETSUI KARA
ARATANA KENSETU WA HAJIMARU!
NICHIREN BUPPO WA HONNIN MYO.
IMA, KOKO KARA GA SHUPPATSU DA!
KACHI SOZO NO JINSEI TARE!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"AKU NO NAKA NO DAIAKU WA WAGAMI NI SONO KU O UKURU NOMI NARAZU KO TO
MAGO TO SUE NANADAI MADEMO KAKARI SOROKERUNARI ZEN NO NAKA NO DAIZEN
MO MATAMATA KAKU NO GOTOSHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1430)
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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/
And if you are looking for back editions of To My Friends click on...
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