* As you can see we are back into some very important guidance on the Five Eternal Guidelines which means a slightly longer Daily Encouragement. Do hope you can spare just those few extra seconds to read the guidance to the end!...
A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun and more.
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
During a typhoon
it is highly likely that there will be heavy rain,
floods and high waves.
Never take such weather conditions lightly,
exercise the utmost of caution!
Let's be sure to remind each other to take care
and make safety and remaining accident-free
our top priority!
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"if there are a hundred or a thousand people who uphold this sutra, without a single exception all one hundred or one thousand of them will become Buddhas."
("Wu-lung and I-lung" WND-1, page 1099)
Selection Source: Editorial
Seikyo Shinbun: October 3rd, 2016
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'Joy' [in the phrase 'responding with joy'] means that oneself and others together experience joy. . . . Then both oneself and others together will take joy in their possession of wisdom and compassion.
"'Now, when Nichiren and his followers chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, they are expressing joy in the fact that they will inevitably become Buddhas eternally endowed with the three bodies. (OTT, 146)
"In The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, Nichiren Daishonin discusses the phrase 'responding with joy' that appears in ['The Benefits of Responding with Joy' (18th) chapter of] the Lotus Sutra, saying: '"Joy" means that oneself and others together experience joy' (OTT, 146). This shared joy, experienced by both oneself and others, is true joy and happiness, he asserts.
"Happiness is something that we must each achieve for ourselves and experience in our own lives. But at the same time, one's own happiness to the exclusion of others is not true happiness. Just being content with one's own welfare with no concern for others is selfish. By the same token, brushing aside one's own happiness and caring only about the happiness of others is not sufficient either. True happiness is a condition when both we ourselves and others are happy.
"The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) also identified the essence of happiness as existing in the expansive spirit of shared happiness. He wrote: 'Remove exclusiveness from the pleasures. The more you leave them to [people] in common, the more you will always taste them pure.'[1] Happiness only exists when it is shared.
"When something good happens, we want to share it with others—our family, friends, fellow members, our mentor. Happiness expands and grows within this web of relationships where we share our joys and sorrows."
SGI Newsletter No. 9450, The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [10] The Five Eternal Guidelines of the Soka Gakkai—Part 2 [of 5], "Faith for Achieving Happiness"—"Oneself and Others Together Experience Joy", from the February 2016 issue of the Daibyaku-renge, translation released 15th Sep., 2016
[1] Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education, translated by Allan Bloom (London: Penguin Books, 1991), p. 353.
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
TAIFU NI TOMONAU
OO AME, BOFU, TAKANAMI NADO NI
GENJU NA KEIKAI O OKOTARU NA!
MINA DE KOE O KAKENAI
ANZEN, MUJIKO DAIICHI DE!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
During a typhoon
it is highly likely that there will be heavy rain,
floods and high waves.
Never take such weather conditions lightly,
exercise the utmost of caution!
Let's be sure to remind each other to take care
and make safety and remaining accident-free
our top priority!
Tuesday, October 4th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"if there are a hundred or a thousand people who uphold this sutra, without a single exception all one hundred or one thousand of them will become Buddhas."
("Wu-lung and I-lung" WND-1, page 1099)
Selection Source: Editorial
Seikyo Shinbun: October 3rd, 2016
Wednesday, October 5th, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'Joy' [in the phrase 'responding with joy'] means that oneself and others together experience joy. . . . Then both oneself and others together will take joy in their possession of wisdom and compassion.
"'Now, when Nichiren and his followers chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, they are expressing joy in the fact that they will inevitably become Buddhas eternally endowed with the three bodies. (OTT, 146)
"In The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings, Nichiren Daishonin discusses the phrase 'responding with joy' that appears in ['The Benefits of Responding with Joy' (18th) chapter of] the Lotus Sutra, saying: '"Joy" means that oneself and others together experience joy' (OTT, 146). This shared joy, experienced by both oneself and others, is true joy and happiness, he asserts.
"Happiness is something that we must each achieve for ourselves and experience in our own lives. But at the same time, one's own happiness to the exclusion of others is not true happiness. Just being content with one's own welfare with no concern for others is selfish. By the same token, brushing aside one's own happiness and caring only about the happiness of others is not sufficient either. True happiness is a condition when both we ourselves and others are happy.
"The French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78) also identified the essence of happiness as existing in the expansive spirit of shared happiness. He wrote: 'Remove exclusiveness from the pleasures. The more you leave them to [people] in common, the more you will always taste them pure.'[1] Happiness only exists when it is shared.
"When something good happens, we want to share it with others—our family, friends, fellow members, our mentor. Happiness expands and grows within this web of relationships where we share our joys and sorrows."
SGI Newsletter No. 9450, The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [10] The Five Eternal Guidelines of the Soka Gakkai—Part 2 [of 5], "Faith for Achieving Happiness"—"Oneself and Others Together Experience Joy", from the February 2016 issue of the Daibyaku-renge, translation released 15th Sep., 2016
[1] Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education, translated by Allan Bloom (London: Penguin Books, 1991), p. 353.
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
TAIFU NI TOMONAU
OO AME, BOFU, TAKANAMI NADO NI
GENJU NA KEIKAI O OKOTARU NA!
MINA DE KOE O KAKENAI
ANZEN, MUJIKO DAIICHI DE!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
KONO KYO O TAMOTSU HITO WA HYAKUNIN WA HYAKUNIN NAGARA. SENNIN WA SENNIN NAGARA. HITORI MO KAKEZU HOTOKE NI NARU
(UENO-AMA GOZEN GOHENJI, page 1580)
(UENO-AMA GOZEN GOHENJI, page 1580)
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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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