* Anyone new in to town? Do you think they would like to get this daily guidance service? Let us know their e-mail address if they say "yes"! Hope you have a great week! A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more. Sunday, April 19th, 2015 -- TO MY FRIENDS -- Now, today again, let's make every effort to talk with others. Let's continue, with confidence and pride, to share this philosophy of humanism with as many people as possible. What creates a new era is voices full of courage and conviction! Sunday, April 19th, 2015 --- DAILY GOSHO --- "Each of you should summon up the courage of a lion king and never succumb to threats from anyone. The lion king fears no other beast, nor do its cubs." (On Persecutions Befalling the Sage - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol.1, page 497) Selection Source: SGI President Ikeda's essay, Seikyo Shinbun, April 18th, 2015 Sunday, April 19th, 2015 ---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---- "In my exchanges about Islam and Buddhism with the late Indonesian president Abdurrahman Wahid (1940–2009), he stressed that dialogue gives a human face to those who may be from a different ethnic, cultural or historical background. Through encounters and repeated interaction, we become attuned to the narratives of each other's lives. Even as we recognise and appreciate the great importance of such attributes as religion or ethnicity, we do not allow that to become the sole focus of our encounter. The shared feeling and trust fostered through these encounters give rise to unique melodies that can only be woven by these two lives. This, I believe, is the true value and meaning of friendship. Or, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee (1889–1975) put it, 'Such glimpses of the real world are gleanings of priceless value.' [i] "Friendship evolves freely when we refuse to be overly concerned with our respective attributes and instead see the other in the brilliant light of their humanity." SGI Newsletter No. 9229, SGI President Ikeda's Peace Proposal 2015, A Shared Pledge for a More Humane Future: To Eliminate Misery from the Earth, translation released 1st April, 2015 [i] Toynbee, East to West, 221. * 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 -- SA KYOMO TAIWA O! NINGEN SHUGI NO TETSUGAKU O DODOTO KATARI NUKO. JIDAI O TSUKURU NOWA YUKI TO KAKUSHIN NO KOE DA! --- KYO NO GOSHO --- "ONO-ONO SHISHIO NO KOKORO O TORIIDASHITE IKANI HITO ODOSUTOMO OZURU KOTO NAKARE SHISHIO WA HYAKUJU NI OJIZU SHISHI NO KO MATA KAKUNO GOTOSHI (Gosho Zenshu page 1190) |
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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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