* The Daily Encouragement is a little bit longer today, but will only take a few more seconds to read! Hope you enjoy it and get some encouragement from it…
A translation of President Ikeda's "Words of the Week"
published in the Seikyo Shinbun and more.
November 21st-27th, 2016
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
Our discussion meetings are plazas
for creating friendships.
The Daishonin teaches,
"The best way to attain Buddhahood is
A translation of President Ikeda's "Words of the Week"
published in the Seikyo Shinbun and more.
November 21st-27th, 2016
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
Our discussion meetings are plazas
for creating friendships.
The Daishonin teaches,
"The best way to attain Buddhahood is
to encounter a good friend."*
From our very own district, block, or group,
let's expand our circle of
fellow Bodhisattvas of the Earth!
*"Three Tripitaka Masters Pray for Rain" - WND-I, page 598
Monday, November 21st, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"One who listens to even a sentence or phrase of the sutra and cherishes it deep in one's heart may be likened to a ship that crosses the sea of the sufferings of birth and death."
(A Ship to Cross the Sea of Suffering
- WND, Vol. I, page 33)
Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's message,
Seikyo Shinbun, November 21st, 2016
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The main message of Soka Gakkai founding president Tsunesaburo Makiguchi's The Geography of Human Life is for all human beings to live together as global citizens who share the awareness that the Earth is our common home, and the world is our stage of action.
"In this same work, President Makiguchi argued that humanity would evolve through four stages. The first three stages, he said, were (1) military competition; (2) political competition; and (3) economic competition. This has proven to be true.
"He categorised the world of his day as being in the stage of economic competition, when all things are measured by the criteria of profit and loss. But he was certain that this was not the final stage of human development.
"What, then, was the fourth stage, following that of economic competition? It was, he declared confidently, the stage of what he called 'humanitarian competition.'
"President Makiguchi envisioned the arrival of a time when the power of humanitarianism, rather than military, political, or economic forces, would lead the world.
"Finding the way to strengthen and amplify the power of the human character, rather than military, political, or economic might—this is the path of hope for humankind and the great path of Buddhism.
"As President Makiguchi so astutely foresaw, the light of humanism is beginning to illuminate our world. Humanism is the only way forwards for the human race.
"Let us strive to usher in a brilliant age of humanity through the power of peace, culture, and education, based on Buddhism."
SGI Newsletter No. 9491, SGI President Ikeda's Speech Excerpts, from 16th Nov., 2016, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translation released 18th Nov., 2016
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's web-site address at
http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html
-- KONSHU NO KOTOBA --
ZADANKAI WA YUJO NO HIROBA DA.
"HOTOKE NI NARU MICHI WA
ZENCHISHIKI NIWA SUGIZU"
WAGA CHIKU "block" KARA
JIYU NO TOMO NO KAKUDAI O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"KONO KYO O ICHIMON IKKU NARITOMO CHOMON SHITE TAMASHII NI SOMEN HITO WA SHOJI NO TAIKAI O WATARU BEKI FUNE NARUBESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 1448)
From our very own district, block, or group,
let's expand our circle of
fellow Bodhisattvas of the Earth!
*"Three Tripitaka Masters Pray for Rain" - WND-I, page 598
Monday, November 21st, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"One who listens to even a sentence or phrase of the sutra and cherishes it deep in one's heart may be likened to a ship that crosses the sea of the sufferings of birth and death."
(A Ship to Cross the Sea of Suffering
- WND, Vol. I, page 33)
Selection source: SGI President Ikeda's message,
Seikyo Shinbun, November 21st, 2016
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The main message of Soka Gakkai founding president Tsunesaburo Makiguchi's The Geography of Human Life is for all human beings to live together as global citizens who share the awareness that the Earth is our common home, and the world is our stage of action.
"In this same work, President Makiguchi argued that humanity would evolve through four stages. The first three stages, he said, were (1) military competition; (2) political competition; and (3) economic competition. This has proven to be true.
"He categorised the world of his day as being in the stage of economic competition, when all things are measured by the criteria of profit and loss. But he was certain that this was not the final stage of human development.
"What, then, was the fourth stage, following that of economic competition? It was, he declared confidently, the stage of what he called 'humanitarian competition.'
"President Makiguchi envisioned the arrival of a time when the power of humanitarianism, rather than military, political, or economic forces, would lead the world.
"Finding the way to strengthen and amplify the power of the human character, rather than military, political, or economic might—this is the path of hope for humankind and the great path of Buddhism.
"As President Makiguchi so astutely foresaw, the light of humanism is beginning to illuminate our world. Humanism is the only way forwards for the human race.
"Let us strive to usher in a brilliant age of humanity through the power of peace, culture, and education, based on Buddhism."
SGI Newsletter No. 9491, SGI President Ikeda's Speech Excerpts, from 16th Nov., 2016, issue of the Seikyo Shimbun, translation released 18th Nov., 2016
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's web-site address at
http://www.seikyoonline.jp/news/index.html
-- KONSHU NO KOTOBA --
ZADANKAI WA YUJO NO HIROBA DA.
"HOTOKE NI NARU MICHI WA
ZENCHISHIKI NIWA SUGIZU"
WAGA CHIKU "block" KARA
JIYU NO TOMO NO KAKUDAI O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"KONO KYO O ICHIMON IKKU NARITOMO CHOMON SHITE TAMASHII NI SOMEN HITO WA SHOJI NO TAIKAI O WATARU BEKI FUNE NARUBESHI"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 1448)
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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/
And if you are looking for back editions of To My Friends click on...
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