A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Saturday, March 4th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Our lives are irreplaceable.
If we have to live anyway,
let's live out our lives
Saturday, March 4th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Our lives are irreplaceable.
If we have to live anyway,
let's live out our lives
by leaving behind something
that will be positively recalled in history.
Let's lead the type of life that everyone
Let's lead the type of life that everyone
looks up to and admiringly says,
"Look at what that person is doing!"
Saturday, March 4th, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honour, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure."
(The Eight Winds - WND, Vol. I, page 794)
Selection source:
"Look at what that person is doing!"
Saturday, March 4th, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honour, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure."
(The Eight Winds - WND, Vol. I, page 794)
Selection source:
SGI-USA member's experience,
Seikyo Shinbun, March 4th, 2017
Sunday, March 5th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Discussion meetings are a great river, of which all our other activities are tributaries.
Sunday, March 5th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Discussion meetings are a great river, of which all our other activities are tributaries.
"Activities to promote friendship and understanding of our movement and the different kinds of meetings we hold all merge into the great river of discussion meetings and flow onward towards the vast ocean of an age of the people. Along both banks of that great river are vast, fertile fields of humanistic culture producing rich and abundant fruit.
"Discussion meetings are the heart of the Soka Gakkai. Mr. Toda often told us: 'Mr. Makiguchi always made sure he got to the meeting place before anyone else. When the first person arrived, he would engage them in an earnest discussion. When a second and third person arrived, he included them in the conversation, sharing Buddhism with great personal warmth and care.'[1]
"Mr. Toda also said: 'If only one person shows up for a meeting, that's fine. Devote all your energy to explaining Nichiren Buddhism to that person, sharing experiences of your Buddhist practice, and talking sincerely about kosen-rufu and life. If two people show up, so much the better. Speak to them about the Gohonzon and make the meeting an inspiring occasion for them. If three show up, consider that a large number!'"[2]
SGI Newsletter No. 9563, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chapter 22: The Organisation for Advancing Kosen-rufu—Part 2 [of 2], 22.6 Discussion Meetings Are the Heart of the Soka Gakkai, from the November 2016 issue of the Daibyakureng, translation released 3rd March, 2017
"Discussion meetings are the heart of the Soka Gakkai. Mr. Toda often told us: 'Mr. Makiguchi always made sure he got to the meeting place before anyone else. When the first person arrived, he would engage them in an earnest discussion. When a second and third person arrived, he included them in the conversation, sharing Buddhism with great personal warmth and care.'[1]
"Mr. Toda also said: 'If only one person shows up for a meeting, that's fine. Devote all your energy to explaining Nichiren Buddhism to that person, sharing experiences of your Buddhist practice, and talking sincerely about kosen-rufu and life. If two people show up, so much the better. Speak to them about the Gohonzon and make the meeting an inspiring occasion for them. If three show up, consider that a large number!'"[2]
SGI Newsletter No. 9563, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chapter 22: The Organisation for Advancing Kosen-rufu—Part 2 [of 2], 22.6 Discussion Meetings Are the Heart of the Soka Gakkai, from the November 2016 issue of the Daibyakureng, translation released 3rd March, 2017
[1] Cf. Translated from Japanese. Josei Toda, Toda Josei Zenshu (Collected Writings of Josei Toda), (Tokyo: Seikyo Shimbunsha, 1985), vol. 4, p. 422.
[2] Ibid., p. 474.
* 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 --
KAKEGAE NO NAI JINSEI.
ONAJI IKIRU NARA
NANIKA DE REKISHI O NOKOSU NODA.
"ANO HITO O MIYO" TO
MINA NI AOGARERU IKIKATA O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"KENJIN WA HAPPU TO MOSHITE YATSU NO KAZE NI OKAWARENU O KENJIN TO MOSU"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 1151)
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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/
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