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Sunday, May 17th, 2015
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's make sure to express
our utmost respect and sincerest appreciation
to all of our Women's Division members,
who are brightly shining as the sun of the SGI.
It is because of their devotion and dedication
that kosen-rufu advances.
By chanting with a pure heart and
having compassionate conversation with others,
let's make our local community a harmonious garden!
Sunday, May 17th, 2015
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It must be ties of karma from the distant past that have destined you to become my disciple at a time like this. Shakyamuni and Many Treasures certainly realised this truth. The sutra's statement, 'Those persons who had heard the Law dwelled here and there in various Buddha lands, constantly reborn in company with their teachers,' cannot be false in any way."
(The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Vol. I, page 217) Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, May 17th, 2015
Monday, May 18th, 2015
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Faith equals daily life, and Buddhism is manifested in society. It is inconceivable, therefore, that our Buddhist practice and the teachings of Buddhism would fail to help us win in our daily lives and society or become happy.
"We all experience problems, sadness, and suffering. But sufferings arising from earthly desires are the springboard to enlightenment. The more we suffer, the more our life state expands. This is the essential principle of the Mystic Law.
"Though we may, for example, be facing a situation as painful as the fires of hell, we can transform it without fail into the happiness of the Land of Tranquil Light.[1]
"The absence of problems and suffering is not happiness. Refusing to be defeated, being able to endure whatever comes our way—that is happiness."
SGI Newsletter No. 9238, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 2: Human Revolution, 9.7 Winning Means Refusing to Be Defeated, from the April 2015 issue of the Daibyaku-renge, translation released 30th April, 2015
[1] Land of Tranquil Light: Also, Land of Eternally Tranquil Light. The Buddha land, which is free from impermanence and impurity. In many sutras, the actual saha world in which human beings dwell is described as an impure land filled with delusions and sufferings, while the Buddha land is described as a pure land free from these and far removed from this saha world. In contrast, the Lotus Sutra reveals the saha world to be the Buddha land, or the Land of Eternally Tranquil Light, and explains that the nature of a land is determined by the minds of its inhabitants.
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-- WAGATOMO NI OKURU --
"SOKA NO TAIYO" TO KAGAYAKU
FUJINBU NO FUNTO NI SAIKEIREI!
MINASAMA ARITE KOFU ARI.
KIYOKI INORI TO JIHI NO TAIWA DE
WAGA CHIIKI O WARAKU NO SONO NI!
---- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"KAKONO SHUKUEN OIKITATTE KONDO NICHIRENGA DESHI TO NARI TAMAUKA SHAKA TAHO KOSO GOZONJI SORORAMA ZAIZAI SHOBUTSUDO JOYOSHIKUSHO YOMO SORAGOTO SORAWAJI"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1338)
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