A translation of President Ikeda's "To My Friends"
published in the Seikyo Shinbun and more.
Friday, December 9th, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The rebroadcast meetings are now in full swing,
our final activity for the year.
We deeply appreciate all the precious efforts
of those who have dedicated their time
to organising and running these broadcasts
and taking care of all the participants this year!
Using this gathering that is so full of joy and harmony,
let's make a fresh new start with a redetermined vow!
Friday, December 9th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The bad luck of your thirty-third year will turn into the happiness of your thirty-third year. That is what is meant by the passage, 'The seven disasters will instantly vanish, and the seven blessings will instantly appear.' You will grow younger, and your good fortune will accumulate."
("The Unity of Husband and Wife"
- WND-1, page 464)
Selection Source: Together with the Gosho
Seikyo Shimbun : December 7th, 2016
Saturday, December 10th, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Valuing each person is the starting point of the Soka Gakkai. This is also the fundamental spirit of Nichiren Buddhism, which teaches that all people are irreplaceably precious and that everyone in the world innately possesses the noble Buddha nature.
"Authoritarian leaders, on the other hand, ignore or denigrate the supreme value of the individual, seeing people only as faceless masses. This is because as far as such individuals are concerned, people are just a means to an end; they are objects, like weapons to be launched or resources to be spent. Power-hungry individuals cleverly manipulate people to feed their own greed and ambition, seeking to gain total control over the whole.
"The Soka Gakkai's approach is the exact opposite. This is because the purpose of kosen-rufu is the happiness of each individual. We believe in the infinite potential of every human being, strive to help each person awaken to and reveal that potential, and work to expand the circle of those who share this commitment. This has been the history of our people's movement to this day.
"The individual comes first, and then the whole. Everything starts with the individual, and with individuals strongly uniting. Losing sight of this essential point will bring terrible consequences. Anyone who sees the Soka Gakkai and its members as nothing but a tool for advancing some personal or organisational agenda, just like the authoritarian leaders I have described, is wicked to the core.
"Everything comes down to the individual. I'd like to reconfirm with you today our basic principle of valuing each individual. Let us focus even more attention on each person, doing our utmost to encourage them and foster their precious potential. When each person develops inner strength and wisdom, they can bring forth double, triple, ten times their present capabilities."
SGI Newsletter No. No. 9505, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chap. 21: Valuing Each Individual—Part 1 [of 2], 21.1 The Aim of Kosen-rufu Is the Happiness of Each Person, from the September 2016 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 8th Dec. 2016
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
TOBI O KAZARU CHUKEI GYOJI.
TOUTOKI UN-EI YAKUIN NO MINASAMA
ICHI NEN-KAN ARIGATO!
KANKI TO WARAKU NO TSUDOI KARA
CHIKAI ARATA NI SHUPPATSU DA!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
SANJU-SAN NO YAKU WA TENJI TE SANJU-SAN NO SAIWAI TO NARASE TAMAU BESHI, SHICHINAN-SOKUMETSU SHICHIFUKU-SOKUSHO TOWA KORE NARI, TOSHI WA.WAKAU NARI FUKU WA KASANARI SORO BESHI,
("SHIJO KINGO DONO NYOBO GOHENJI", Gosho Zenshu, page 1135)
published in the Seikyo Shinbun and more.
Friday, December 9th, 2016
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The rebroadcast meetings are now in full swing,
our final activity for the year.
We deeply appreciate all the precious efforts
of those who have dedicated their time
to organising and running these broadcasts
and taking care of all the participants this year!
Using this gathering that is so full of joy and harmony,
let's make a fresh new start with a redetermined vow!
Friday, December 9th, 2016
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The bad luck of your thirty-third year will turn into the happiness of your thirty-third year. That is what is meant by the passage, 'The seven disasters will instantly vanish, and the seven blessings will instantly appear.' You will grow younger, and your good fortune will accumulate."
("The Unity of Husband and Wife"
- WND-1, page 464)
Selection Source: Together with the Gosho
Seikyo Shimbun : December 7th, 2016
Saturday, December 10th, 2016
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Valuing each person is the starting point of the Soka Gakkai. This is also the fundamental spirit of Nichiren Buddhism, which teaches that all people are irreplaceably precious and that everyone in the world innately possesses the noble Buddha nature.
"Authoritarian leaders, on the other hand, ignore or denigrate the supreme value of the individual, seeing people only as faceless masses. This is because as far as such individuals are concerned, people are just a means to an end; they are objects, like weapons to be launched or resources to be spent. Power-hungry individuals cleverly manipulate people to feed their own greed and ambition, seeking to gain total control over the whole.
"The Soka Gakkai's approach is the exact opposite. This is because the purpose of kosen-rufu is the happiness of each individual. We believe in the infinite potential of every human being, strive to help each person awaken to and reveal that potential, and work to expand the circle of those who share this commitment. This has been the history of our people's movement to this day.
"The individual comes first, and then the whole. Everything starts with the individual, and with individuals strongly uniting. Losing sight of this essential point will bring terrible consequences. Anyone who sees the Soka Gakkai and its members as nothing but a tool for advancing some personal or organisational agenda, just like the authoritarian leaders I have described, is wicked to the core.
"Everything comes down to the individual. I'd like to reconfirm with you today our basic principle of valuing each individual. Let us focus even more attention on each person, doing our utmost to encourage them and foster their precious potential. When each person develops inner strength and wisdom, they can bring forth double, triple, ten times their present capabilities."
SGI Newsletter No. No. 9505, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chap. 21: Valuing Each Individual—Part 1 [of 2], 21.1 The Aim of Kosen-rufu Is the Happiness of Each Person, from the September 2016 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 8th Dec. 2016
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
TOBI O KAZARU CHUKEI GYOJI.
TOUTOKI UN-EI YAKUIN NO MINASAMA
ICHI NEN-KAN ARIGATO!
KANKI TO WARAKU NO TSUDOI KARA
CHIKAI ARATA NI SHUPPATSU DA!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
SANJU-SAN NO YAKU WA TENJI TE SANJU-SAN NO SAIWAI TO NARASE TAMAU BESHI, SHICHINAN-SOKUMETSU SHICHIFUKU-SOKUSHO TOWA KORE NARI, TOSHI WA.WAKAU NARI FUKU WA KASANARI SORO BESHI,
("SHIJO KINGO DONO NYOBO GOHENJI", Gosho Zenshu, page 1135)
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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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