A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more. Sunday, June 7th, 2015 -- TO MY FRIENDS -- The Daishonin encourages us to be "filial towards our father and mother."* A life of gratitude and appreciation is truly beautiful. I am counting on you to be a person who appreciates and takes care of your parents! Let's shine with actual proof of victory based on our own inner development and change! *Gosho, The Four Virtues and the Four Debts of Gratitude - WND-II, page 636 Sunday, June 7th, 2015 --- DAILY GOSHO --- "Exert yourself in the two ways of practice and study. Without practice and study, there can be no Buddhism. You must not only persevere yourself; you must also teach others. Both practice and study arise from faith. Teach others to the best of your ability, even if it is only a single sentence or phrase. " (The True Aspect of All Phenomena - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin, page 386) Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's Essay, Seikyo Shimbun, May 26th, 2015 Monday, June 8th, 2015 —— DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ---- "Please don't worry. As long as you continue exerting yourself in faith, you can definitely become happy. That's what Buddhism is for. Also, your current suffering and misfortune exist so that you may fulfill your own unique and noble mission. Everything will turn to defeat if all you do is worry about your karma and let it make you miserable." "…It is true that Buddhism teaches that one who commits evil deeds against others will receive the negative effects of those actions and live an unhappy life. This is just one aspect, however. Were it the entire teaching on karma, then people would be doomed to live under a cloud of guilt and vague anxiety, not knowing what offenses they might have committed in past lives. It would also mean that people's destiny was fixed—a concept that could easily rob them of their energy and passion. "The Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin goes far beyond the framework of superficial causality. It elucidates the most fundamental cause and shows us the way to return to the pure life within that has existed since time without beginning. The way we achieve this is by awakening to our mission as Bodhisattvas of the Earth and dedicating ourselves to the widespread propagation of the Law." SGI Newsletter No. 9247, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 2: Human Revolution, 10.3 The Great Drama of Human Revolution, from the May 2015 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 29th May, 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-- [FUBO NI KO ARU BESHI] HOON NO JINSEI WA UTSUKUSHI. KIMI YO OYAKOKO NO HITO TARE! MIZUKARA NO SEICHO TO SHORI NO JISHO DE HIKARE! -- KYO NO GOSHO -- "GYOGAKU NO NIDO O HAGEMI SOROBESHI GYOGAKU TAENABA BUPPO WA ARUBEKARAZU WARE MO ITASHI HITO OMO KYOKE SORAE GYOGAKU WA SHINJIN YORI OKORUBEKU SORO CHIKARA ARABA ICHIMON IKKU NARITOMO KATARASE TAMAUBESHI" (Gosho Zenshu, page 1361) |
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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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