A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2014
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's be sure to express our appreciation
to all the people in our neighbourhood and workplace
who helped and supported us this year!
The friendship and trust we share with people is our true treasure.
Let's spend the end of the year connecting and bonding
with the people in our lives!
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2014
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."
(On Prayer - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
Vol. 1, page 345)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin",
Seikyo Shimbun, Dec 17th, 2014
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2014
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Prayer is the starting point of religion; the human wish for happiness, the starting point of faith. Even those who profess no religion invariably wish and pray for something—whether it be to overcome hardship, live better lives, or safeguard the happiness and welfare of their families and loved ones. This is only human nature.
"Prayer in Nichiren Buddhism is about bringing reality into alignment with our wishes and desires based on the Law of life.
"Buddhism explores and illuminates the great Law of life underlying all physical and spiritual phenomena. This is the Mystic Law. Nichiren Daishonin inscribed the Gohonzon so that we could tap this invisible, yet real power from within our lives.
"My mentor, second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda, said: "I apologise for using such a simplistic analogy, but the Gohonzon can be likened to a 'happiness- producing device.'"
"Through the power of our own strong faith and practice, we can bring forth the infinite power of the Buddha and the Law."
SGI Newsletter No. 9136, Opening a New Era of Kosen-rufu Together, (38) Faith Is a Source of Limitless Hope,from 19th Oct., 2014, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translation released 10th Dec., 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--
CHIKI YA SHOKUBA DE OSEWA NI
NATTE IRU KATAGATA NI
KANSHA O TSUTAEYO!
YUJO TO SHINRAI KOSO TAKARA DA.
KOKORO KAYOWASERU NENMATSU O!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURUTOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONOWA ARITOMO SHIO NO
MICHIINU KOTOWA ARITOMO HIWA NISHIYORI IZURUTOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO
INORI NO KANAWANU KOTOWA ARU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1351)
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2014
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's be sure to express our appreciation
to all the people in our neighbourhood and workplace
who helped and supported us this year!
The friendship and trust we share with people is our true treasure.
Let's spend the end of the year connecting and bonding
with the people in our lives!
Wednesday, Dec 17th, 2014
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."
(On Prayer - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
Vol. 1, page 345)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin",
Seikyo Shimbun, Dec 17th, 2014
Thursday, Dec 18th, 2014
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Prayer is the starting point of religion; the human wish for happiness, the starting point of faith. Even those who profess no religion invariably wish and pray for something—whether it be to overcome hardship, live better lives, or safeguard the happiness and welfare of their families and loved ones. This is only human nature.
"Prayer in Nichiren Buddhism is about bringing reality into alignment with our wishes and desires based on the Law of life.
"Buddhism explores and illuminates the great Law of life underlying all physical and spiritual phenomena. This is the Mystic Law. Nichiren Daishonin inscribed the Gohonzon so that we could tap this invisible, yet real power from within our lives.
"My mentor, second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda, said: "I apologise for using such a simplistic analogy, but the Gohonzon can be likened to a 'happiness- producing device.'"
"Through the power of our own strong faith and practice, we can bring forth the infinite power of the Buddha and the Law."
SGI Newsletter No. 9136, Opening a New Era of Kosen-rufu Together, (38) Faith Is a Source of Limitless Hope,from 19th Oct., 2014, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translation released 10th Dec., 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--
CHIKI YA SHOKUBA DE OSEWA NI
NATTE IRU KATAGATA NI
KANSHA O TSUTAEYO!
YUJO TO SHINRAI KOSO TAKARA DA.
KOKORO KAYOWASERU NENMATSU O!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURUTOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONOWA ARITOMO SHIO NO
MICHIINU KOTOWA ARITOMO HIWA NISHIYORI IZURUTOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO
INORI NO KANAWANU KOTOWA ARU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1351)
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ALSO if you want to introduce a friend to the SGI but just don't know where to start, share with them the following addresses and they can read and watch some very well put together explanations about the SGI. Check it out yourself!
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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