A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Making an effort to step out of our homes
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Making an effort to step out of our homes
and visit our friends and fellow members,
to engage in conversation with them
is the noble path towards expanding kosen-rufu!
Let's generate waves of hope
to engage in conversation with them
is the noble path towards expanding kosen-rufu!
Let's generate waves of hope
from the heart of our activities of the organisation!
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Gold can be neither burned by fire nor corroded or swept away by water, but iron is vulnerable to both. A worthy person is like gold, a fool like iron. You are like pure gold because you embrace the 'gold' of the Lotus Sutra."
(The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life
Thursday, August 27th, 2015
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Gold can be neither burned by fire nor corroded or swept away by water, but iron is vulnerable to both. A worthy person is like gold, a fool like iron. You are like pure gold because you embrace the 'gold' of the Lotus Sutra."
(The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life
- The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin,
page 217)
Selection source: "Teachings of Buddhism",
Selection source: "Teachings of Buddhism",
Seikyo Shimbun, August 18th, 2015
Friday, August 28th, 2015
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
Friday, August 28th, 2015
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Daishonin writes: 'Can anything exceed the sun and moon in brightness? Can anything surpass the lotus flower in purity?' (WND-1, 186). The real world is an unending muddy morass of problems and conflicts. However, in the midst of such troubles, Buddhism enables us actualise the brightest and purest way of life.
"The French author Madame de Staël (1766–1817) wrote: 'We must fortify ourselves by our own thoughts, in the midst of the reverses of life.'[1]
"For us, it is our Buddhist faith and practice that produces such courage. The sincere encouragement of our fellow members, who share our commitment, is also an inexhaustible source of courage."
SGI Newsletter No. 9285, The Song of Human Victory, The Spirit of Soka Youth Burns Brighter in July, from the July 8th, 2015, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translation released 24th Aug., 2015
[1] Madame de Staël, Reflections on Suicide (New York: AMS Press Inc., 1975), pp. 64–65.
* 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--
TOMO NO MOTO E ASHI O HAKOBI
KATARIAU KOTO GA
KOFU SHINTEN NO ODO DA!
SOSHIKI NI SAIZENSEN KARA
KIBO NO HADO O OKOSE!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"KOGANE WA TAIKA NIMO YAKEZU TAISUI NIMO TADAYOWAZU KUCHIZU KUROGANE WA SUIKA TOMONI TAEZU KENJIN WA KOGANE NO GOTOKUGUNIN WA KUROGANE NO GOTOSHI KIHEN ANI SHINKIN NI ARAZUYA HOKEKYO NO KOGANE O TAMOTSU YUEKA"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1337)
SGI Newsletter No. 9285, The Song of Human Victory, The Spirit of Soka Youth Burns Brighter in July, from the July 8th, 2015, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translation released 24th Aug., 2015
[1] Madame de Staël, Reflections on Suicide (New York: AMS Press Inc., 1975), pp. 64–65.
* 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--
TOMO NO MOTO E ASHI O HAKOBI
KATARIAU KOTO GA
KOFU SHINTEN NO ODO DA!
SOSHIKI NI SAIZENSEN KARA
KIBO NO HADO O OKOSE!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"KOGANE WA TAIKA NIMO YAKEZU TAISUI NIMO TADAYOWAZU KUCHIZU KUROGANE WA SUIKA TOMONI TAEZU KENJIN WA KOGANE NO GOTOKUGUNIN WA KUROGANE NO GOTOSHI KIHEN ANI SHINKIN NI ARAZUYA HOKEKYO NO KOGANE O TAMOTSU YUEKA"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1337)
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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
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