A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Friday, Feb. 3rd, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
If we try to make a positive change
in our perspective or attitude
it is sure to dramatically affect our environment.
Let's turn those powerful winds of adversity
into a force that helps us to breakthrough!
Let's turn that suffering into a springboard
that launches us towards great advancement!
Let's be victorious where we are right now!
Friday, Feb. 3rd, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If a person cannot manage to cross a moat ten feet wide, how can they cross one that is a hundred or two hundred feet?"
("The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra",
- WND, Vol. 1, page 766)
Selection source:
Kyo no Hosshin, Feb 3rd 2017
Saturday, Feb. 4th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"One of Shakyamuni's disciples was called Ananda. One day, Ananda asked Shakyamuni: 'It seems to me that by having good friends and advancing together with them, one has already halfway attained the Buddha way. Is this way of thinking correct?'
"The suggestion that having good friends is half of Buddhist practice might seem exaggerated, and no doubt Ananda posed this question with some hesitation.
"But Shakyamuni replied: 'Ananda, this way of thinking is not correct. Having good friends and advancing together with them is not half the Buddha way but all the Buddha way.'[1]
"Advancing and striving together with good friends is not half but all of Buddhist practice. We of the Soka Gakkai have fully embodied this message of Shakyamuni, this spirit of Buddhism.
"There are times when advancing together with others is frustrating and difficult. Acting alone, just as one pleases, is undoubtedly much easier. But that can lead to becoming self-centred, which prevents us from practising Buddhism properly. Before we know it, we'll have strayed from the correct path. Ultimately, we'll find ourselves in a lonely, sad, and miserable state of life.
"Mutual development and true Buddhist practice lie in joining together with many different kinds of individuals and sharing various challenges and efforts with them as we encourage one another to advance and grow together.
"This is the real way to develop ourselves as human beings, and it is also true freedom."
SGI Newsletter No. 9542, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chapter 22: The Organisation for Advancing Kosen-rufu—Part 1 [of 2], from the November 2016 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 3rd Feb. 2017
[1] This episode has been creatively paraphrased here. Cf. Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya (Boston: Wisdom Publishing, 2000), "Maggasamyutta" [2 (2) Half the Holy Life], p. 1524.
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
WAGA KOKORO O HENKAKAU SUREBA
KANKYO WA GEKITEKI NI KAWARU.
GYAKKKO O HISHO NO CHIKARA DE!
NAYAMI O YAKUSHIN NO BANE NE!
"IMA IRU BASHO" DE KATE!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"ICHI-JO NO HORI O · KOENU MONO JU-JO · NIJU-JO NO HORI O · KOUBEKIKA."
Gosho Zenshu page 912
Friday, Feb. 3rd, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
If we try to make a positive change
in our perspective or attitude
it is sure to dramatically affect our environment.
Let's turn those powerful winds of adversity
into a force that helps us to breakthrough!
Let's turn that suffering into a springboard
that launches us towards great advancement!
Let's be victorious where we are right now!
Friday, Feb. 3rd, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"If a person cannot manage to cross a moat ten feet wide, how can they cross one that is a hundred or two hundred feet?"
("The Actions of the Votary of the Lotus Sutra",
- WND, Vol. 1, page 766)
Selection source:
Kyo no Hosshin, Feb 3rd 2017
Saturday, Feb. 4th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"One of Shakyamuni's disciples was called Ananda. One day, Ananda asked Shakyamuni: 'It seems to me that by having good friends and advancing together with them, one has already halfway attained the Buddha way. Is this way of thinking correct?'
"The suggestion that having good friends is half of Buddhist practice might seem exaggerated, and no doubt Ananda posed this question with some hesitation.
"But Shakyamuni replied: 'Ananda, this way of thinking is not correct. Having good friends and advancing together with them is not half the Buddha way but all the Buddha way.'[1]
"Advancing and striving together with good friends is not half but all of Buddhist practice. We of the Soka Gakkai have fully embodied this message of Shakyamuni, this spirit of Buddhism.
"There are times when advancing together with others is frustrating and difficult. Acting alone, just as one pleases, is undoubtedly much easier. But that can lead to becoming self-centred, which prevents us from practising Buddhism properly. Before we know it, we'll have strayed from the correct path. Ultimately, we'll find ourselves in a lonely, sad, and miserable state of life.
"Mutual development and true Buddhist practice lie in joining together with many different kinds of individuals and sharing various challenges and efforts with them as we encourage one another to advance and grow together.
"This is the real way to develop ourselves as human beings, and it is also true freedom."
SGI Newsletter No. 9542, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chapter 22: The Organisation for Advancing Kosen-rufu—Part 1 [of 2], from the November 2016 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 3rd Feb. 2017
[1] This episode has been creatively paraphrased here. Cf. Bhikkhu Bodhi, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya (Boston: Wisdom Publishing, 2000), "Maggasamyutta" [2 (2) Half the Holy Life], p. 1524.
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
WAGA KOKORO O HENKAKAU SUREBA
KANKYO WA GEKITEKI NI KAWARU.
GYAKKKO O HISHO NO CHIKARA DE!
NAYAMI O YAKUSHIN NO BANE NE!
"IMA IRU BASHO" DE KATE!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"ICHI-JO NO HORI O · KOENU MONO JU-JO · NIJU-JO NO HORI O · KOUBEKIKA."
Gosho Zenshu page 912
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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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