A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shimbun and more.
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Life is a battle against our own inner self.
With powerful, sonorous chanting,
make sure not to "slacken in your resolve,"
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Life is a battle against our own inner self.
With powerful, sonorous chanting,
make sure not to "slacken in your resolve,"
as the Gosho says,
but pay full attention to the task that is right before you,
strengthening "your faith
but pay full attention to the task that is right before you,
strengthening "your faith
day by day and month after month."*
* Gosho: On Persecutions Befalling the Sage - WND1, page 997,
"Strengthen your faith day by day and month after month. Should you slacken in your resolve even a bit, devils will take advantage."
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Each of you should summon up the courage of a lion king and never succumb to threats from anyone. The lion king fears no other beast, nor do its cubs."
(On Persecutions Befalling the Sage
* Gosho: On Persecutions Befalling the Sage - WND1, page 997,
"Strengthen your faith day by day and month after month. Should you slacken in your resolve even a bit, devils will take advantage."
Wednesday, May 18th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Each of you should summon up the courage of a lion king and never succumb to threats from anyone. The lion king fears no other beast, nor do its cubs."
(On Persecutions Befalling the Sage
- WND, Vol.1, page 497)
Selection source:
Selection source:
"Kyo no Hosshin" Seikyo Shinbun, May 18th, 2016
Thursday, May 19th, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Referring to the fact that the three brothers of Atsuhara were willing to lay down their lives for their beliefs, Mr. Toda once said: 'Faith is not determined by the number of years one has practiced, but by one's courage. Those with courageous faith are the most admirable of all.'"
SGI Newsletter No. 9394, The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [6] "On Persecutions Befalling the Sage"—Part 1 [of 2], The Buddhism of the People—Opening an Age of Humanistic Religion, from the October 2015 issue of the Daibyaku-renge, translation released 17th May, 2016
Thursday, May 19th, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Referring to the fact that the three brothers of Atsuhara were willing to lay down their lives for their beliefs, Mr. Toda once said: 'Faith is not determined by the number of years one has practiced, but by one's courage. Those with courageous faith are the most admirable of all.'"
SGI Newsletter No. 9394, The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [6] "On Persecutions Befalling the Sage"—Part 1 [of 2], The Buddhism of the People—Opening an Age of Humanistic Religion, from the October 2015 issue of the Daibyaku-renge, translation released 17th May, 2016
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
JINSEI WA JISHIN TO NO TATAKAI DA.
RORO TARU SHODAI DE
[TAYUMU KOKORO] O HAISHI
GANZEN NO KADAI NI
[TSUYORU KOKORO] DE IDOMI NUKE!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"ONO-ONO SHISHIO NO KOKORO O TORIIDASHITE IKANI HITO ODOSUTOMO OZURU KOTO NAKARE SHISHIO WA HYAKUJU NI OJIZU SHISHI NO KO MATA KAKUNO GOTOSHI
(Gosho Zenshu page 1190)
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
JINSEI WA JISHIN TO NO TATAKAI DA.
RORO TARU SHODAI DE
[TAYUMU KOKORO] O HAISHI
GANZEN NO KADAI NI
[TSUYORU KOKORO] DE IDOMI NUKE!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"ONO-ONO SHISHIO NO KOKORO O TORIIDASHITE IKANI HITO ODOSUTOMO OZURU KOTO NAKARE SHISHIO WA HYAKUJU NI OJIZU SHISHI NO KO MATA KAKUNO GOTOSHI
(Gosho Zenshu page 1190)
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http://www.sgi.org/
http://www.sgi-uk.org/buddhism/practice
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/
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