A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's all express our heartfelt appreciation
to those who offer their residences for our activities!
Let's make a point of always exercising
good common sense in our behaviour and actions
especially towards the family members and their neighbours.
Together, let's advance towards realising kosen-rufu in the community!
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Because I view things this way, I feel immeasurable delight even though I am now an exile."
(The True Aspect of All Phenomena
- The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 386)
Selection source: New Human Revolution,
Seikyo Shimbun, March 10th, 2015
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'I do not regret meeting with such great persecutions as the votary of the Lotus Sutra. However many times I were to repeat the cycle of birth and death, no life could be as fortunate as this.'
- From "Earthly Desires Are Enlightenment" (WND-1, 317).
"Nichiren Daishonin possessed a truly towering state of life that enabled him to declare, even in the midst of the harshest persecution, that he was filled with 'immeasurable delight' (WND-1, 386; 'The True Aspect of All Phenomena').
"Viewed from the perspective of Buddhism, all of our hardships have meaning. They are all trials we go through to build a state of eternally indestructible happiness.
"Happiness is not the absence of struggles or suffering. Rather, true happiness and tranquillity are found in firmly building a strong self that is not defeated by anything. An unflagging spirit of challenge guarantees that our lives will be endowed with the fortune, or reward, of supreme fulfilment that will endure throughout the three existences of past, present, and future."
SGI Newsletter No. 9212, Living the Gosho: (50) Build an Unshakable Self, from 5th March 5, 2015, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translation released 6th March, 2015
* 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--
KOJIN KAIJO NO TEIKYOSHA NI
MINA DE KANSHA O TSUTAEYO!
RYOSHIKI ARU KODO O KOKOROGAKE
KAZOKU YA KINRIN NI MO HAIRYO O.
CHIKI KOFU E TOMODOMO NI ZENSHIN!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KAKUNO GOTOKU OMOI TSUZUKETE SORAEBA RUNIN NAREDOMOKIETSU HAKARI NASHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1360)
Let's all express our heartfelt appreciation
to those who offer their residences for our activities!
Let's make a point of always exercising
good common sense in our behaviour and actions
especially towards the family members and their neighbours.
Together, let's advance towards realising kosen-rufu in the community!
Tuesday, March 10th, 2015
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Because I view things this way, I feel immeasurable delight even though I am now an exile."
(The True Aspect of All Phenomena
- The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 386)
Selection source: New Human Revolution,
Seikyo Shimbun, March 10th, 2015
Wednesday, March 11th, 2015
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'I do not regret meeting with such great persecutions as the votary of the Lotus Sutra. However many times I were to repeat the cycle of birth and death, no life could be as fortunate as this.'
- From "Earthly Desires Are Enlightenment" (WND-1, 317).
"Nichiren Daishonin possessed a truly towering state of life that enabled him to declare, even in the midst of the harshest persecution, that he was filled with 'immeasurable delight' (WND-1, 386; 'The True Aspect of All Phenomena').
"Viewed from the perspective of Buddhism, all of our hardships have meaning. They are all trials we go through to build a state of eternally indestructible happiness.
"Happiness is not the absence of struggles or suffering. Rather, true happiness and tranquillity are found in firmly building a strong self that is not defeated by anything. An unflagging spirit of challenge guarantees that our lives will be endowed with the fortune, or reward, of supreme fulfilment that will endure throughout the three existences of past, present, and future."
SGI Newsletter No. 9212, Living the Gosho: (50) Build an Unshakable Self, from 5th March 5, 2015, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translation released 6th March, 2015
* 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--
KOJIN KAIJO NO TEIKYOSHA NI
MINA DE KANSHA O TSUTAEYO!
RYOSHIKI ARU KODO O KOKOROGAKE
KAZOKU YA KINRIN NI MO HAIRYO O.
CHIKI KOFU E TOMODOMO NI ZENSHIN!
-- KYO NO GOSHO --
"KAKUNO GOTOKU OMOI TSUZUKETE SORAEBA RUNIN NAREDOMOKIETSU HAKARI NASHI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1360)
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If you have a friend(s) who would like to get To My Friends directly get them to send an E-mail to the following address and just simply write - "subscribe"
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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
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from there on it is all automatic!
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...
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo/conversations/messages
To unsubscribe from this group send an email to:
SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo-unsubscribe@egroups.com
But do drop us a line at sjlmg@wta.att.ne.jp when you leave and tell us why you are leaving as it often can help us to improve the service! Please!
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