A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Saturday, January 30th, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Bursting with the spirit to learn more,
let's actively and cheerfully advance!
The Daishonin encourages us,
"It is the heart that is important."
When we participate in activities,
happily and enthusiastically,
our lives shine with even more
benefit and good fortune.
Saturday, January 30th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It is the heart that is important. No matter how earnestly Nichiren prays for you, if you lack faith, it will be like trying to set fire to wet tinder. Spur yourself tomuster the power of faith. ."
(The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Saturday, January 30th, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Bursting with the spirit to learn more,
let's actively and cheerfully advance!
The Daishonin encourages us,
"It is the heart that is important."
When we participate in activities,
happily and enthusiastically,
our lives shine with even more
benefit and good fortune.
Saturday, January 30th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"It is the heart that is important. No matter how earnestly Nichiren prays for you, if you lack faith, it will be like trying to set fire to wet tinder. Spur yourself tomuster the power of faith. ."
(The Strategy of the Lotus Sutra
- WND, Vol 1, page 1000)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Shimbun, Jan. 29th, 2016
Sunday, January 31st, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Members of an SGI youth delegation who were invited to India last November (2015) by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) sent me joyful reports saying that wherever they went, they received a warm welcome and felt the Indian members' dynamic, youthful commitment to expand our movement for kosen-rufu.
Sunday, January 31st, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Members of an SGI youth delegation who were invited to India last November (2015) by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) sent me joyful reports saying that wherever they went, they received a warm welcome and felt the Indian members' dynamic, youthful commitment to expand our movement for kosen-rufu.
"Why has the membership in India grown so much? When asked about this by the visiting youth delegation, the local members responded with pride that they all viewed kosen-rufu as their personal mission and took action to realise it; no one left it up to someone else to do.
"Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) stated: 'The greatest [people] of the world have always stood alone.'[1] I wish to declare that our members striving for kosen-rufu with a stand-alone spirit are the greatest and most respect-worthy people in the world."
SGI Newsletter No. No. 9345, The Song of Human Victory, Singing Songs of Joy and Triumph Together, from 25th December, 2015, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translation released 22nd Jan., 2016
[1] Mahatma Gandhi, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1969), vol. 41 (June–October 1929), p. 465.
* 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 --
KYUDO NO IBUKI O MOYASHI
HATSURATSU TO SUSUMO!
"KOKORO KOSO TAISETSU" DA.
YOROKOBI ISANDE UGOKEBA
KUDOKU WA ICHIDAN TO KAGAYAKU!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"TADA KOKORO KOSO TAISETSU NARE IKANI NICHIREN INORI MOSUTOMO FUSHIN NARABA NURETARU HOKUCHI NI HI O UCHI KAKURU GA GOTOKU NARUBESHI HAGEMI O NASHITE GOJONI SHINRIKI O IDASHI TAMAU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 1192)
http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html
-- WAGATOMO NI OKURU --
KYUDO NO IBUKI O MOYASHI
HATSURATSU TO SUSUMO!
"KOKORO KOSO TAISETSU" DA.
YOROKOBI ISANDE UGOKEBA
KUDOKU WA ICHIDAN TO KAGAYAKU!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"TADA KOKORO KOSO TAISETSU NARE IKANI NICHIREN INORI MOSUTOMO FUSHIN NARABA NURETARU HOKUCHI NI HI O UCHI KAKURU GA GOTOKU NARUBESHI HAGEMI O NASHITE GOJONI SHINRIKI O IDASHI TAMAU BESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 1192)
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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
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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