A translation of President Ikeda's "Words of the Week"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
November 16th-22nd, 2015
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
Three cheers for our up coming Soka Gakkai Founding Day!
This day is indeed a marvellous victory for all SGI members!
Because our "great vow" refers to the propagation of the Lotus Sutra,*
let's create a fresh new surge of expansion in our movement
starting with where we are standing right now in our local community.
*The "great vow" refers to the propagation of the Lotus Sutra. "Because they pity living beings" refers to all the living beings in the country of Japan. The persons who "are born in this evil world" are Nichiren and his followers. "Broadly" means to expound the sutra throughout the southern continent of Jambudvīpa. "This sutra" refers to the daimoku. Now the above passage refers to Nichiren and his followers, who chant the daimoku, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. - "The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings", page 82
Monday, November 16th, 2015
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"I am praying that, no matter how troubled the times may become, the Lotus Sutra and the ten demon daughters will protect all of you, praying as earnestly as though to produce fire from damp wood, or to obtain water from parched ground."
(On Rebuking Slander of the Law and Eradicating Sins - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Vol 1, page 444)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, November 16th, 2015
Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"From its inception Buddhism was a religion that focused on the needs of human beings, aiming for the happiness of all people.
"This is also conveyed in these words from the Lotus Sutra: '[So that one might] bring tranquility to and . . . comfort and benefit heavenly and human beings in large measure" (LSOC7, 158). [1]
"This desire to benefit others is the fundamental vow and wish of not only Shakyamuni Buddha but of all Buddhas of the ten directions and three existences. Spreading the teaching—in other words, the Lotus Sutra, which actualises this wish—is the ultimate reason or purpose for which Buddhas make their appearance in this world.
"After Shakyamuni's passing, in the Latter Day of the Law, an age of suffering and confusion, Nichiren Daishonin courageously rose to action to carry on this same vow. As the votary of the Lotus Sutra, he devoted himself to widely spreading the Mystic Law—to realising kosen-rufu—in order to lead all people to enlightenment.
"If one wishes to secure happiness and peace for all people, one cannot help but turn one's attention to social change. Transforming this troubled saha world in which we live into the Land of Tranquil Light (a Buddha land)[2] is the true essence of 'establishing the correct teaching for the peace of the land.'
"The Soka Gakkai is the organisation that is faithfully carrying on the Daishonin's great struggle and spirit of 'establishing the correct teaching for the peace of the land.'"
SGI Newsletter No. 9317, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory , [71] "On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land," The Sun of the Mystic Law Illuminating the Darkness of the Latter Day of the Law, from the April 2015 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 13 Nov. 2015
[1] From the "Parable of the Phantom City" (7th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra, spoken by the sixteen princes to the Buddha Great Universal Wisdom Excellence as they urge him to preach the Law.
[2] The Sanskrit word saha means the earth; it derives from a root meaning "to bear" or "to endure." For this reason, in the Chinese versions of Buddhist scriptures, saha is rendered as endurance. In this context, the saha world indicates the world where ordinary people dwell, a world filled with delusion and suffering that have to be endured. In contrast, the Land of Tranquil Light is a realm where Buddhas dwell, which is free from impermanence and impurity. In many sutras other than the Lotus Sutra, the saha world is described as an impure land to be shunned and despised, and that pure lands where Buddhas dwell exist in some other place apart from this real world. The Lotus Sutra, however, reveals the saha world to be the Buddha land, or the Land of Tranquil Light, and explains that the nature of a land is determined by the minds of its inhabitants.
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's web-site address at
http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html
--KONSHU NO KOTOBA--
GAIKA NO SORITSUBI, BANZAI!
ZENDOSHI NO SHORI NARI.
DAIGAN TOWA HOKKE GUTSU NAREBA
ARATANA KAKUDAI NO NAMI O
WAGA ASHIMOTO NO CHIIKI KARA!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"IKANARU YONO MIDARE NIMO ONO-ONO OBA HOKEKYO JURASETSU TASUKE TAMAE TO SHIMERERU KI YORI HI O IDASHI KAWAKERU TSUCHI YORI MIZU O MOKEN GA GOTOKU GOJONI MOSU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 1132)
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
November 16th-22nd, 2015
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
Three cheers for our up coming Soka Gakkai Founding Day!
This day is indeed a marvellous victory for all SGI members!
Because our "great vow" refers to the propagation of the Lotus Sutra,*
let's create a fresh new surge of expansion in our movement
starting with where we are standing right now in our local community.
*The "great vow" refers to the propagation of the Lotus Sutra. "Because they pity living beings" refers to all the living beings in the country of Japan. The persons who "are born in this evil world" are Nichiren and his followers. "Broadly" means to expound the sutra throughout the southern continent of Jambudvīpa. "This sutra" refers to the daimoku. Now the above passage refers to Nichiren and his followers, who chant the daimoku, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. - "The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings", page 82
Monday, November 16th, 2015
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"I am praying that, no matter how troubled the times may become, the Lotus Sutra and the ten demon daughters will protect all of you, praying as earnestly as though to produce fire from damp wood, or to obtain water from parched ground."
(On Rebuking Slander of the Law and Eradicating Sins - The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin Vol 1, page 444)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shimbun, November 16th, 2015
Tuesday, November 17th, 2015
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"From its inception Buddhism was a religion that focused on the needs of human beings, aiming for the happiness of all people.
"This is also conveyed in these words from the Lotus Sutra: '[So that one might] bring tranquility to and . . . comfort and benefit heavenly and human beings in large measure" (LSOC7, 158). [1]
"This desire to benefit others is the fundamental vow and wish of not only Shakyamuni Buddha but of all Buddhas of the ten directions and three existences. Spreading the teaching—in other words, the Lotus Sutra, which actualises this wish—is the ultimate reason or purpose for which Buddhas make their appearance in this world.
"After Shakyamuni's passing, in the Latter Day of the Law, an age of suffering and confusion, Nichiren Daishonin courageously rose to action to carry on this same vow. As the votary of the Lotus Sutra, he devoted himself to widely spreading the Mystic Law—to realising kosen-rufu—in order to lead all people to enlightenment.
"If one wishes to secure happiness and peace for all people, one cannot help but turn one's attention to social change. Transforming this troubled saha world in which we live into the Land of Tranquil Light (a Buddha land)[2] is the true essence of 'establishing the correct teaching for the peace of the land.'
"The Soka Gakkai is the organisation that is faithfully carrying on the Daishonin's great struggle and spirit of 'establishing the correct teaching for the peace of the land.'"
SGI Newsletter No. 9317, Learning from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin: The Teachings for Victory , [71] "On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land," The Sun of the Mystic Law Illuminating the Darkness of the Latter Day of the Law, from the April 2015 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 13 Nov. 2015
[1] From the "Parable of the Phantom City" (7th) chapter of the Lotus Sutra, spoken by the sixteen princes to the Buddha Great Universal Wisdom Excellence as they urge him to preach the Law.
[2] The Sanskrit word saha means the earth; it derives from a root meaning "to bear" or "to endure." For this reason, in the Chinese versions of Buddhist scriptures, saha is rendered as endurance. In this context, the saha world indicates the world where ordinary people dwell, a world filled with delusion and suffering that have to be endured. In contrast, the Land of Tranquil Light is a realm where Buddhas dwell, which is free from impermanence and impurity. In many sutras other than the Lotus Sutra, the saha world is described as an impure land to be shunned and despised, and that pure lands where Buddhas dwell exist in some other place apart from this real world. The Lotus Sutra, however, reveals the saha world to be the Buddha land, or the Land of Tranquil Light, and explains that the nature of a land is determined by the minds of its inhabitants.
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's web-site address at
http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html
--KONSHU NO KOTOBA--
GAIKA NO SORITSUBI, BANZAI!
ZENDOSHI NO SHORI NARI.
DAIGAN TOWA HOKKE GUTSU NAREBA
ARATANA KAKUDAI NO NAMI O
WAGA ASHIMOTO NO CHIIKI KARA!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"IKANARU YONO MIDARE NIMO ONO-ONO OBA HOKEKYO JURASETSU TASUKE TAMAE TO SHIMERERU KI YORI HI O IDASHI KAWAKERU TSUCHI YORI MIZU O MOKEN GA GOTOKU GOJONI MOSU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 1132)
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And for the children there's a wonderful new web-site
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