A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
From the type of conversations
that helps us to understand
each other's perspective,
trust and empathy between us is born.
Always listening attentively to
even the seemingly smallest of questions,
let's continue to constructively talk to others
with the utmost sincerity and respect!
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"There should be no discrimination among those who propagate the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo in the Latter Day of the Law, be they men or women. Were they not Bodhisattvas of the Earth, they could not chant the daimoku."
(The True Aspect of All Phenomena
- WND, Vol. I, page 385)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Shinbun, June 7th, 2017
Thursday, June 8th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In your respective communities and societies, you are volunteering your time and energy to chant and work for the members' happiness, to support and encourage them with heartfelt care and concern. Your actions are those of great bodhisattvas; your spirit, that of noble Buddhas.
"Nichiren Daishonin cites the following words [of the Great Teacher Miao-lo]: 'The truer the teaching, the lower the stage [of those it can bring to enlightenment]'[1] (WND-1, 785–86). [In other words, the more correct a Buddhist teaching, the greater the number of people it will lead to happiness.] If we apply this principle to the leaders who propagate the teaching, we can take it to mean that the deeper their faith, the more they will respect their fellow practitioners and the harder they will work to help even more people become happy.
"In the light of the law of cause and effect, through the good fortune we accumulate by treasuring and caring for many people, we will be able to attain a state of life in which we are protected and supported by many others in this and future existences. Our Buddhist practice today is the cause for becoming great leaders in lifetime after lifetime."
SGI Newsletter No. 9626, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chap. 24: Leaders Who Guide Others to Happiness—Part 1 [of 2], 24.1 A Leadership Revolution, from the January 2017 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 6th June, 2017
[1] From Miao-lo's Annotations on "Great Concentration and Insight."
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
"NATTOKU" NO TAIWA KARA
SHINRAI TO KYOKAN GA UMARERU.
SASAINA GIMON NIMO
HITOTSU HITOTSU MIMI O KATAMUKE
KONSETSU TEINEINI KATARI YUKO
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"MAPPO NI SHITE MYOHORENGEKYO NO GOJI O HIROMEN MONO WA NANNYO O KIRAU BEKARAZU MINA JIYU NO BOSATSU NO SHUTSUGEN NI ARAZUNBA TONAE GATAKI DAIMOKU NARI."
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1360)
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
From the type of conversations
that helps us to understand
each other's perspective,
trust and empathy between us is born.
Always listening attentively to
even the seemingly smallest of questions,
let's continue to constructively talk to others
with the utmost sincerity and respect!
Wednesday, June 7th, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"There should be no discrimination among those who propagate the five characters of Myoho-renge-kyo in the Latter Day of the Law, be they men or women. Were they not Bodhisattvas of the Earth, they could not chant the daimoku."
(The True Aspect of All Phenomena
- WND, Vol. I, page 385)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Shinbun, June 7th, 2017
Thursday, June 8th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In your respective communities and societies, you are volunteering your time and energy to chant and work for the members' happiness, to support and encourage them with heartfelt care and concern. Your actions are those of great bodhisattvas; your spirit, that of noble Buddhas.
"Nichiren Daishonin cites the following words [of the Great Teacher Miao-lo]: 'The truer the teaching, the lower the stage [of those it can bring to enlightenment]'[1] (WND-1, 785–86). [In other words, the more correct a Buddhist teaching, the greater the number of people it will lead to happiness.] If we apply this principle to the leaders who propagate the teaching, we can take it to mean that the deeper their faith, the more they will respect their fellow practitioners and the harder they will work to help even more people become happy.
"In the light of the law of cause and effect, through the good fortune we accumulate by treasuring and caring for many people, we will be able to attain a state of life in which we are protected and supported by many others in this and future existences. Our Buddhist practice today is the cause for becoming great leaders in lifetime after lifetime."
SGI Newsletter No. 9626, The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chap. 24: Leaders Who Guide Others to Happiness—Part 1 [of 2], 24.1 A Leadership Revolution, from the January 2017 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 6th June, 2017
[1] From Miao-lo's Annotations on "Great Concentration and Insight."
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
"NATTOKU" NO TAIWA KARA
SHINRAI TO KYOKAN GA UMARERU.
SASAINA GIMON NIMO
HITOTSU HITOTSU MIMI O KATAMUKE
KONSETSU TEINEINI KATARI YUKO
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"MAPPO NI SHITE MYOHORENGEKYO NO GOJI O HIROMEN MONO WA NANNYO O KIRAU BEKARAZU MINA JIYU NO BOSATSU NO SHUTSUGEN NI ARAZUNBA TONAE GATAKI DAIMOKU NARI."
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1360)
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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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