A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015
― TO MY FRIENDS --
The growth and development of our Student Division members*
is a light of hope that illuminates the future.
They are an essential part of worldwide kosen-rufu.
To all of my dear Student Division members,
spend your noble youthful days, each and every day,
exerting yourself in the two ways of practice and study!
*College and university students
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If a person cannot manage to cross a moat ten feet wide, how can he cross one that is a hundred or two hundred feet?"
(The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Volume 1, page 766)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, June 3rd, 2015
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Mr. Toda encouraged a member suffering from illness: 'When you trip over a stone and fall, you place your hands on the ground and push yourself up again. In the same way, please transform your karma of illness into mission and overcome it through practising Nichiren Buddhism.'
"He also said: 'Life would be very monotonous if we never fell ill. The Lotus Sutra teaches that the Buddha, too, suffered from sickness. In one of his commentaries, the Great Teacher T'ien-t'ai says that all living beings are subject to illness, so it would be difficult to relate to the Buddha if he didn't also experience illness.'[1]
"The Lotus Sutra teaches the principle of 'voluntarily assuming the appropriate karma.' Bodhisattvas vow to free people from suffering, and to fulfil their vow they deliberately choose to be born into this world of suffering and evil.[2]
"When we base our lives on faith in the Mystic Law, we can always change our karma into mission, however daunting the problems we face."
SGI Newsletter No. 9247, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 2: Human Revolution, Chapter 10: Transforming Karma into Mission, from the May 2015 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 29th May, 2015
[1] Translated from Japanese. Josei Toda, Toda Josei Zenshu (Collected Writings of Josei Toda) (Tokyo: Seikyo Shimbunsha, 1982), vol. 2, p. 335.
[2] Cf. LSOC10, 200, 202.
* 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--
GAKUSEIBU NO SEICHO WA
MIRAI O TERASU KIBO DA.
SEKAI KOFU NO KANAME DA.
KIMIYO GYOGAKU NIDO NO
IDAINA SEISHUN NO HIBI O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"ICHIJO NO HORI O KOENU MONO JUJO NIJUJO NO HORI O KOU BEKIKA"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 912)
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015
― TO MY FRIENDS --
The growth and development of our Student Division members*
is a light of hope that illuminates the future.
They are an essential part of worldwide kosen-rufu.
To all of my dear Student Division members,
spend your noble youthful days, each and every day,
exerting yourself in the two ways of practice and study!
*College and university students
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2015
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If a person cannot manage to cross a moat ten feet wide, how can he cross one that is a hundred or two hundred feet?"
(The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, Volume 1, page 766)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, June 3rd, 2015
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Mr. Toda encouraged a member suffering from illness: 'When you trip over a stone and fall, you place your hands on the ground and push yourself up again. In the same way, please transform your karma of illness into mission and overcome it through practising Nichiren Buddhism.'
"He also said: 'Life would be very monotonous if we never fell ill. The Lotus Sutra teaches that the Buddha, too, suffered from sickness. In one of his commentaries, the Great Teacher T'ien-t'ai says that all living beings are subject to illness, so it would be difficult to relate to the Buddha if he didn't also experience illness.'[1]
"The Lotus Sutra teaches the principle of 'voluntarily assuming the appropriate karma.' Bodhisattvas vow to free people from suffering, and to fulfil their vow they deliberately choose to be born into this world of suffering and evil.[2]
"When we base our lives on faith in the Mystic Law, we can always change our karma into mission, however daunting the problems we face."
SGI Newsletter No. 9247, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 2: Human Revolution, Chapter 10: Transforming Karma into Mission, from the May 2015 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 29th May, 2015
[1] Translated from Japanese. Josei Toda, Toda Josei Zenshu (Collected Writings of Josei Toda) (Tokyo: Seikyo Shimbunsha, 1982), vol. 2, p. 335.
[2] Cf. LSOC10, 200, 202.
* 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--
GAKUSEIBU NO SEICHO WA
MIRAI O TERASU KIBO DA.
SEKAI KOFU NO KANAME DA.
KIMIYO GYOGAKU NIDO NO
IDAINA SEISHUN NO HIBI O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"ICHIJO NO HORI O KOENU MONO JUJO NIJUJO NO HORI O KOU BEKIKA"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 912)
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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/
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