A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shinbun and more.
Thursday, September 1st, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
A practitioner of Buddhism is one
who is constantly thinking about self improvement
and challenges all that lies ahead -
a champion certain to win in the end!
Let's together lead out our lives
full of pride in what we are striving for.
Thursday, September 1st, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."
(On Prayer
- WND, Vol. I, page 345)
Selection source:
"Kyo no Hosshin," Sep 1st, 2016
Friday, September 2nd, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Chile is a nation of passionate poetic spirit. The Nobel Prize–winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904–73) declared: "The individual is more powerful than any calamity."[1] No disaster, no tribulation, no misfortune can defeat humanity.
"Humanity's nobility lies in battling against adversity and triumphing over it.
"Nichiren Daishonin states: 'Buddhism primarily concerns itself with victory or defeat' (WND-1, 835). Both Buddhism and life are concerned with winning.
"…Each and every day, we have to fight against our own weaknesses, against wanting to just give up. Winning over ourselves is the most basic struggle of all.
"The ultimate driving force for victory in those struggles is faith—it is chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
"When you chant to the Gohonzon with the determination to win, and then take action to do just that, you can triumph in any sphere.
"Even if you fail to succeed in some challenge the first try, just pick yourself up and succeed the next time. If you lose today, win tomorrow. If you lose 99 out of 100 times but win the last time, then you have achieved victory. Such determined effort is what makes a person strong."
SGI Newsletter No. 9442, Spread Your Wings toward the Future, [18] Traveling Over the Andes, from 1st Sep., 2015, issue of the Mirai [Future] Journal, translation released 31st Aug. 2016
[1] Translated from Spanish. Pablo Neruda, "El viento en el Asia" (The Wind in Asia), in Las uvas y el viento (The Grapes and the Wind), (Santiago: Nascimento, 1954), p. 99.
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
SHINKO SHA TO WA
JISHIN NO KOJO O MEZASHI
CHOSEN O TSUZUKERU HITO DA.
SAIGO NI KATSU YUSHA DA.
HOKORI KAGAYAKU JINSEI O TOMO NI!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURUTOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONOWA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIHINU KOTOWA ARITOMO HIWA NISHIYORI IZURUTOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTOWA ARUBEKARAZU"
published in the Seikyo Shinbun and more.
Thursday, September 1st, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
A practitioner of Buddhism is one
who is constantly thinking about self improvement
and challenges all that lies ahead -
a champion certain to win in the end!
Let's together lead out our lives
full of pride in what we are striving for.
Thursday, September 1st, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."
(On Prayer
- WND, Vol. I, page 345)
Selection source:
"Kyo no Hosshin," Sep 1st, 2016
Friday, September 2nd, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Chile is a nation of passionate poetic spirit. The Nobel Prize–winning Chilean poet Pablo Neruda (1904–73) declared: "The individual is more powerful than any calamity."[1] No disaster, no tribulation, no misfortune can defeat humanity.
"Humanity's nobility lies in battling against adversity and triumphing over it.
"Nichiren Daishonin states: 'Buddhism primarily concerns itself with victory or defeat' (WND-1, 835). Both Buddhism and life are concerned with winning.
"…Each and every day, we have to fight against our own weaknesses, against wanting to just give up. Winning over ourselves is the most basic struggle of all.
"The ultimate driving force for victory in those struggles is faith—it is chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo.
"When you chant to the Gohonzon with the determination to win, and then take action to do just that, you can triumph in any sphere.
"Even if you fail to succeed in some challenge the first try, just pick yourself up and succeed the next time. If you lose today, win tomorrow. If you lose 99 out of 100 times but win the last time, then you have achieved victory. Such determined effort is what makes a person strong."
SGI Newsletter No. 9442, Spread Your Wings toward the Future, [18] Traveling Over the Andes, from 1st Sep., 2015, issue of the Mirai [Future] Journal, translation released 31st Aug. 2016
[1] Translated from Spanish. Pablo Neruda, "El viento en el Asia" (The Wind in Asia), in Las uvas y el viento (The Grapes and the Wind), (Santiago: Nascimento, 1954), p. 99.
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
SHINKO SHA TO WA
JISHIN NO KOJO O MEZASHI
CHOSEN O TSUZUKERU HITO DA.
SAIGO NI KATSU YUSHA DA.
HOKORI KAGAYAKU JINSEI O TOMO NI!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURUTOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONOWA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIHINU KOTOWA ARITOMO HIWA NISHIYORI IZURUTOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTOWA ARUBEKARAZU"
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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/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/
And if you are looking for back editions of To My Friends click on...
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