A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Wednesday, Feb 17th, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
A passage from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin says:
"The situation is like the joints in a piece of bamboo:
if one joint is ruptured, then all the joints will split."*
One single courageous breakthrough
generates irresistible momentum.
That, in fact, is the formula for victory!
*Gosho: Letter to Hōren - WND1, pg. 512
Wednesday, Feb 17th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If in a single moment of life we exhaust the pains and trials of millions of kalpas, then instant after instant there will arise in us the three Buddha bodies with which we are eternally endowed. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is just such a 'diligent' practice."
(The Essential Passage in Each of the Twenty-eight Chapters of the
Lotus Sutra, Emerging from the Earth
- The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 214)
Selection source: "Teachings of Buddhism,"
Seikyo Shinbun, Feb. 17th, 2016
Thursday, Feb 18th, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"When we dedicate ourselves to the great vow for kosen-rufu, our lives open up limitlessly. We attain a vast state of life that enables us to calmly survey the problems and struggles we may be facing and triumph over them."
SGI Newsletter No. 9351, The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [3] "Aspiration for the Buddha Land," Revealing and Spreading the "Secret Law That Is the One Great Reason the Buddhas Make Their Advent", from the July 2015 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 15th Feb. 2016
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
[TATOEBA TAKE NO FUSHI O HITOTSU WARINUREBA
YONO FUSHI MATA WARURU GA GOTOSHI]
KAKAN NA [ITTEN TOPPA] GA
HACHIKU NO IKIOI O UMU!
SORE GA SHORI NO HOTEI SHIKI DA!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"ICHINEN NI OKUGO NO SHINRO O TSUKUSEBA HONRAI MUSANO SANJIN NENNENNI OKORUNARI IWAYURU NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO WA SHOJINGYO NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 790)
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Wednesday, Feb 17th, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
A passage from the Writings of Nichiren Daishonin says:
"The situation is like the joints in a piece of bamboo:
if one joint is ruptured, then all the joints will split."*
One single courageous breakthrough
generates irresistible momentum.
That, in fact, is the formula for victory!
*Gosho: Letter to Hōren - WND1, pg. 512
Wednesday, Feb 17th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If in a single moment of life we exhaust the pains and trials of millions of kalpas, then instant after instant there will arise in us the three Buddha bodies with which we are eternally endowed. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is just such a 'diligent' practice."
(The Essential Passage in Each of the Twenty-eight Chapters of the
Lotus Sutra, Emerging from the Earth
- The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, page 214)
Selection source: "Teachings of Buddhism,"
Seikyo Shinbun, Feb. 17th, 2016
Thursday, Feb 18th, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"When we dedicate ourselves to the great vow for kosen-rufu, our lives open up limitlessly. We attain a vast state of life that enables us to calmly survey the problems and struggles we may be facing and triumph over them."
SGI Newsletter No. 9351, The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [3] "Aspiration for the Buddha Land," Revealing and Spreading the "Secret Law That Is the One Great Reason the Buddhas Make Their Advent", from the July 2015 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 15th Feb. 2016
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
[TATOEBA TAKE NO FUSHI O HITOTSU WARINUREBA
YONO FUSHI MATA WARURU GA GOTOSHI]
KAKAN NA [ITTEN TOPPA] GA
HACHIKU NO IKIOI O UMU!
SORE GA SHORI NO HOTEI SHIKI DA!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"ICHINEN NI OKUGO NO SHINRO O TSUKUSEBA HONRAI MUSANO SANJIN NENNENNI OKORUNARI IWAYURU NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO WA SHOJINGYO NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 790)
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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!
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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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