A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
First and foremost
let's make the utmost effort
to immediately go to the place
where members are encountering
the greatest difficulty or problems.
Let's also try our very best
to promptly offer wholehearted encouragement
to anyone who is in the very midst of great suffering!
It's such swift thoughtful caring action
that is the wellspring of people's trust!
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"(The votaries of the Lotus Sutra, though they are cursed and abused,) practise forbearance, and thereby they are relieved of the sickness of anger."
("The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings", pages 131-132)
Selection Source: Suntetsu
Seikyo Shinbun: March 23rd, 2017
Thursday, March 23rd, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Why did Many Treasures Buddha and the Buddhas of the ten directions gather before Shakyamuni? Because of their wish to insure that the teaching for universal enlightenment is preserved forever and transmitted to people in all future ages. The compassion of these Buddhas is greater than that of parents seeking to save their only child from suffering, the Daishonin says.
"Out of his profound compassion, the Buddha revealed the eternal teaching for the enlightenment of all people. The important question, therefore, is, Who will carry on the Buddha's spirit of great compassion and spread the Mystic Law, the teaching he revealed, in the evil age of the Latter Day? The Buddha fervently seeks capable individuals to whom he can entrust the future propagation of this teaching.
"The Daishonin points out: 'All the various teachings of the Buddha are spread by persons' (WND-1, 61). No matter how great the teaching, it won't have any power or effect unless there are people who embrace and propagate it.
"He also writes: 'Even when . . . [Buddhist] priests set out from Japan to take some sutras [back] to China, no one was found there who could embrace these sutras and teach them to others. It was as though there were only wooden or stone statues garbed in priests' robes and carrying begging bowls' (WND-1, 401).
"Without people who embrace and transmit its teachings, all that will remain of Buddhism is 'wooden or stone statues'—in other words, Buddhism becomes ossified and lifeless.
"The only way to truly 'make certain the Law will long endure' is to call forth genuinely courageous practitioners who will strive for that purpose in the evil age of the Latter Day of the Law.
"The Daishonin's selfless efforts to spread the Mystic Law in that age proved the truth of what the Buddha had predicted in the Lotus Sutra. And the appearance of the Soka Gakkai has opened the way for the widespread propagation and eternal perpetuation of the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism. It follows, therefore, that if people who uphold and transmit these teachings continue to appear around the world, the Mystic Law will spread ever more widely and there will arrive an age of world peace that shines with everlasting brilliance.
"In that respect, fostering successors for our movement is a sacred undertaking to perpetuate the Law and is our responsibility for the future of kosen-rufu."
SGI Newsletter No. 9571, The Buddhism of the Sun-Illuminating the World, (16) Fostering Successors- Now Is the Time to Create the Future of Soka! From the August 2016 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 17th March, 2017
* 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 --
ICHIBAN TAIHENNA TOKORO NI
MASSAKI NI KAKE TSUKERU!
ICHIBAN KURUSHINDE IRU HITO NI
MASSAKI NI HAGEMASHI O OKURU!
JINSOKU KOSO SHINRAI NO MINAMOTO DA!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
(HOKEKYO NO GYOJA WA MERI SERARURE DOMO) NINNIKU O GYOZURU WA SHIN'I NO YAMAI O NOZOKU NARI
("ONGI KUDEN", page 755)
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
First and foremost
let's make the utmost effort
to immediately go to the place
where members are encountering
the greatest difficulty or problems.
Let's also try our very best
to promptly offer wholehearted encouragement
to anyone who is in the very midst of great suffering!
It's such swift thoughtful caring action
that is the wellspring of people's trust!
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"(The votaries of the Lotus Sutra, though they are cursed and abused,) practise forbearance, and thereby they are relieved of the sickness of anger."
("The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings", pages 131-132)
Selection Source: Suntetsu
Seikyo Shinbun: March 23rd, 2017
Thursday, March 23rd, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Why did Many Treasures Buddha and the Buddhas of the ten directions gather before Shakyamuni? Because of their wish to insure that the teaching for universal enlightenment is preserved forever and transmitted to people in all future ages. The compassion of these Buddhas is greater than that of parents seeking to save their only child from suffering, the Daishonin says.
"Out of his profound compassion, the Buddha revealed the eternal teaching for the enlightenment of all people. The important question, therefore, is, Who will carry on the Buddha's spirit of great compassion and spread the Mystic Law, the teaching he revealed, in the evil age of the Latter Day? The Buddha fervently seeks capable individuals to whom he can entrust the future propagation of this teaching.
"The Daishonin points out: 'All the various teachings of the Buddha are spread by persons' (WND-1, 61). No matter how great the teaching, it won't have any power or effect unless there are people who embrace and propagate it.
"He also writes: 'Even when . . . [Buddhist] priests set out from Japan to take some sutras [back] to China, no one was found there who could embrace these sutras and teach them to others. It was as though there were only wooden or stone statues garbed in priests' robes and carrying begging bowls' (WND-1, 401).
"Without people who embrace and transmit its teachings, all that will remain of Buddhism is 'wooden or stone statues'—in other words, Buddhism becomes ossified and lifeless.
"The only way to truly 'make certain the Law will long endure' is to call forth genuinely courageous practitioners who will strive for that purpose in the evil age of the Latter Day of the Law.
"The Daishonin's selfless efforts to spread the Mystic Law in that age proved the truth of what the Buddha had predicted in the Lotus Sutra. And the appearance of the Soka Gakkai has opened the way for the widespread propagation and eternal perpetuation of the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism. It follows, therefore, that if people who uphold and transmit these teachings continue to appear around the world, the Mystic Law will spread ever more widely and there will arrive an age of world peace that shines with everlasting brilliance.
"In that respect, fostering successors for our movement is a sacred undertaking to perpetuate the Law and is our responsibility for the future of kosen-rufu."
SGI Newsletter No. 9571, The Buddhism of the Sun-Illuminating the World, (16) Fostering Successors- Now Is the Time to Create the Future of Soka! From the August 2016 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 17th March, 2017
* 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 --
ICHIBAN TAIHENNA TOKORO NI
MASSAKI NI KAKE TSUKERU!
ICHIBAN KURUSHINDE IRU HITO NI
MASSAKI NI HAGEMASHI O OKURU!
JINSOKU KOSO SHINRAI NO MINAMOTO DA!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
(HOKEKYO NO GYOJA WA MERI SERARURE DOMO) NINNIKU O GYOZURU WA SHIN'I NO YAMAI O NOZOKU NARI
("ONGI KUDEN", page 755)
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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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