This Week and This Month's Event Calendars: [SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo] To My Friends & Daily Gosho Oct. 15th, 2016 + Daily Encouragement Oct. 16th

A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shinbun and more.

Saturday, October 15th, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all of those members who assist

in the running of our meetings
and/or helping to take care of our community centres,
thank you so much, as always,

for your selfless dedication!
Let's all make sure

to show our utmost respect and appreciation
to those people who make such noble efforts

behind the scenes!

Saturday, October 15th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"I am praying that, no matter how troubled the times may become, the Lotus Sutra and the ten demon daughters will protect all of you, praying as earnestly as though to produce fire from damp wood, or to obtain water from parched ground. "

(On Rebuking Slander of the Law and Eradicating Sins

- WND, Vol. I, page 444)
Selection source:

SGI Peru member's experience,

Seikyo Shinbun, October 15th, 2016

Sunday, October 16th, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Do not to be impatient in spreading Buddhism.

"The Buddhism of Nichiren Daishonin is the Buddhism of sowing implicit in the Lotus Sutra. The foundation of our practice is chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo ourselves and reaching out to interact with others to bring them into contact with the Mystic Law. Whether they start practising or not is a separate issue. There are two ways the seeds of the Law can be planted: 'sowing the seeds by letting people hear the teaching,' which means to enable a person to hear about Buddhism, and 'sowing the seeds by leading people to arouse faith in the teaching'[1] which means enabling them to accept and have faith in the Gohonzon. Both are equally excellent forms of propagation. They both produce the same benefits.

"The majority of the world's people as yet know nothing of the teachings, or even the name, of this Buddhism. Our mission is to sow the seeds of the Mystic Law—in other words, the seeds for peace and happiness—in their lives. In most cases, by simply interacting with others as true friends and communicating sincerely and openly, we will help them form a connection with Buddhism. It is also important that we continue to pray for the happiness of those individuals. Later, we may have an opportunity to talk to them in a very natural way about our Buddhism of sowing.

"But never get into arguments over faith or be persistent to the point where you both end up getting angry and upset. Just continue to cherish your sincere wish that the person in question will accept this Buddhism. There is no need to be impatient or feel pressured to get someone to start practising. Once you have helped someone form a connection with Buddhism, the time will surely come when the seed you have planted will sprout and blossom."

SGI Newsletter No. 9464, THE WISDOM FOR CREATING HAPPINESS AND PEACE, Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chapter 20: Be Good Citizens! Part 1 [of 2], 20.3 Being Responsible, Good Citizens, from the August 2016 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released Oct. 7th, 2016

[1] There are two ways of sowing the seeds of Buddhahood: "sowing the seeds by letting one hear the teaching" and "sowing the seeds by leading one to arouse faith in the teaching." In The Annotations on "The Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra," the Great Teacher Miao-lo of China states: "Whether one accepts or rejects the teaching, it enters one's ears and one thus establishes a bond with it. And then, though one may comply with or go against it, in the end one will be able to achieve liberation because of this bond." "Sowing the seeds by letting one hear the teaching" thus means that simply by hearing the Law one forms the cause, or seed, for attaining Buddhahood eventually, even if one should reject it initially.

* 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 --
KAIKAN KAIGO NO UNEI NI
TSUKUSU YAKUIN NO KATAGATA
ITSUMO ARIGATO!
TOTOI KAGE NO ROKU NI
MINADE SAIKEIREI O!

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"IKANARU YO NO MIDARE NIMO ONO-ONO OBA HOKEKYO JURASETSU TASUKE TAMAE TO SHIMERERU KI YORI HI O IDASHI KAWAKERU TSUCHI YORI MIZU O MOKEN GA GOTOKU GOJONI MOSU NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 1132)

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