A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
It's through talking to others with the utmost sincerity
and giving them warm caring encouragement
that we can cultivate friendships and trust.
Today also, in the very best of high spirits,
let's go see our friends,
one by one!
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Neither non-Buddhists nor the enemies of Buddhism can destroy the correct teaching of the Thus Come One, but the Buddha's disciples definitely can. As a sutra says, only worms born of the lion's body feed on the lion."
(Letter from Sado
- WND, Vol. I, page 302)
Selection source: The New Human Revolution, Seikyo Shinbun, January 14th, 2017
Sunday, January 15th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"An American missionary once visited Mahatma Gandhi and asked what his religion was. Pointing to two sick people resting in his room, Gandhi said: 'To serve is my religion.'[1]
"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the champion of the American Civil Rights Movement who inherited Gandhi's legacy of nonviolence, often said that any religion that overlooks the real-life sufferings of the people is a 'spiritually moribund religion.'[2]
"We in the Soka Gakkai share at the deepest level these beliefs articulated by Gandhi and King. No matter how lofty the ideals it espouses, a religion that is not committed to taking action for the happiness of those who are suffering and struggling is a spiritually lifeless religion.
"Soka Gakkai members have always reached out to such people and fought for their happiness. As a result, our movement was at one time scorned and insulted as 'a religion of the poor and the sick.'
"But my mentor, Josei Toda, heartily laughed off such misguided attacks, regarding them as a badge of honour. Being able to help the suffering masses is, after all, the mark of a strong and effective religion, he declared. The criticism was proof that the Soka Gakkai is a living religion.
"Mr. Toda declared with absolute conviction: 'If practising this Buddhism doesn't make you happy, I will give you my life!'
"If we cannot help the person right in front of us, no matter how deep the despair they have fallen into, then this Buddhism is a lie. Mr. Toda continued, with all his might, to deeply touch people's lives and awaken in them a powerful and invincible courage to take on any adversity.
"One individual after another was inspired by Mr. Toda's wholehearted encouragement to stand up and fight for happiness.
"While overcoming their own karma, they also stepped forwards and fought to achieve the greater purpose of building a new society. In other words, they stood up for kosen-rufu."
SGI Newsletter No. 9506, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chapter 21: Valuing Each Individual—Part 2 [of 2], 21.7 President Makiguchi's Struggle, from the September 2016 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 9th Dec. 2016
[1] M. K. Gandhi, My Religion, compiled and edited by Bharatan Kumarappa (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1958), p. 51.
[2] Cf. Martin Luther King, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.—Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959–December 1960, edited by Clayborne Carson, et al. (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2005), p. 200.
* 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 --
ATATAKANA HAGEMASHI
SEIJITSUNA KATARAI GA
YUJO TO SHINRAI O HAGUKUMU.
SA KYOMO GENKINI
HITORI NO TOMO NO MOTO E!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"GEDO AKUNIN WA NYORAI NO SHOHO O YABURIGATASHI BUTSUDESHIRA KANARAZU BUPPO O YABURU BESHI SHISHI SHINCHU NO MUSHI NO SHISHI O HAMU TO UNNUN"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 957)
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
It's through talking to others with the utmost sincerity
and giving them warm caring encouragement
that we can cultivate friendships and trust.
Today also, in the very best of high spirits,
let's go see our friends,
one by one!
Saturday, January 14th, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Neither non-Buddhists nor the enemies of Buddhism can destroy the correct teaching of the Thus Come One, but the Buddha's disciples definitely can. As a sutra says, only worms born of the lion's body feed on the lion."
(Letter from Sado
- WND, Vol. I, page 302)
Selection source: The New Human Revolution, Seikyo Shinbun, January 14th, 2017
Sunday, January 15th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"An American missionary once visited Mahatma Gandhi and asked what his religion was. Pointing to two sick people resting in his room, Gandhi said: 'To serve is my religion.'[1]
"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the champion of the American Civil Rights Movement who inherited Gandhi's legacy of nonviolence, often said that any religion that overlooks the real-life sufferings of the people is a 'spiritually moribund religion.'[2]
"We in the Soka Gakkai share at the deepest level these beliefs articulated by Gandhi and King. No matter how lofty the ideals it espouses, a religion that is not committed to taking action for the happiness of those who are suffering and struggling is a spiritually lifeless religion.
"Soka Gakkai members have always reached out to such people and fought for their happiness. As a result, our movement was at one time scorned and insulted as 'a religion of the poor and the sick.'
"But my mentor, Josei Toda, heartily laughed off such misguided attacks, regarding them as a badge of honour. Being able to help the suffering masses is, after all, the mark of a strong and effective religion, he declared. The criticism was proof that the Soka Gakkai is a living religion.
"Mr. Toda declared with absolute conviction: 'If practising this Buddhism doesn't make you happy, I will give you my life!'
"If we cannot help the person right in front of us, no matter how deep the despair they have fallen into, then this Buddhism is a lie. Mr. Toda continued, with all his might, to deeply touch people's lives and awaken in them a powerful and invincible courage to take on any adversity.
"One individual after another was inspired by Mr. Toda's wholehearted encouragement to stand up and fight for happiness.
"While overcoming their own karma, they also stepped forwards and fought to achieve the greater purpose of building a new society. In other words, they stood up for kosen-rufu."
SGI Newsletter No. 9506, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chapter 21: Valuing Each Individual—Part 2 [of 2], 21.7 President Makiguchi's Struggle, from the September 2016 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 9th Dec. 2016
[1] M. K. Gandhi, My Religion, compiled and edited by Bharatan Kumarappa (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1958), p. 51.
[2] Cf. Martin Luther King, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.—Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959–December 1960, edited by Clayborne Carson, et al. (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 2005), p. 200.
* 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 --
ATATAKANA HAGEMASHI
SEIJITSUNA KATARAI GA
YUJO TO SHINRAI O HAGUKUMU.
SA KYOMO GENKINI
HITORI NO TOMO NO MOTO E!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"GEDO AKUNIN WA NYORAI NO SHOHO O YABURIGATASHI BUTSUDESHIRA KANARAZU BUPPO O YABURU BESHI SHISHI SHINCHU NO MUSHI NO SHISHI O HAMU TO UNNUN"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 957)
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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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