A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all of those who are
in the Soka-han or Gajo-kai*,
keep trying to advance in your training
and education!
Your days of being young is a time for you
to work on bettering yourselves
and becoming stronger.
Through faith, practice and study
in Buddhism,
constantly polish your inner self.
*YMD groups that help to guide and support members outside SGI community centres and keep the centres
secure and safe.
Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"And yet, though one might point at the earth and miss it, though one might bind up the sky, though the tides might cease to ebb and flow and the sun rise in the west, it could never come about that the prayers of the practitioner of the Lotus Sutra would go unanswered."
(On Prayer - WND, Vol. I, page 345)
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin",
Selection source: "Kyo no Hosshin",
Seikyo Shinbun, July 26th, 2017
Thursday, July 27th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Toda recited a passage from the Daishonin's 'On the Four Stages of Faith and the Five Stages of Practice':
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
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-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
Thursday, July 27th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Toda recited a passage from the Daishonin's 'On the Four Stages of Faith and the Five Stages of Practice':
"'I entreat the people of this country: Do not look down upon my disciples! If you inquire into their past, you will find that they are great bodhisattvas who have given alms to Buddhas over a period of eight hundred thousand million kalpas, and who have carried out practices under Buddhas as numerous as the sands of the Hiranyavati and Ganges rivers. And if we speak of the future, they will be endowed with the benefit of the fiftieth person [who rejoices on hearing the Lotus Sutra], surpassing that of one who gave alms to innumerable living beings for a period of eighty years [cf. LSOC18, 289–91]. They are like an infant emperor wrapped in swaddling clothes, or a great dragon who has just been born. Do not despise them! Do not look on them with contempt!' (WND-1, 788–89)
"By referring to this passage, Toda wished to awaken his listeners to just how noble is the life state of Gakkai members who uphold the Gohonzon and strive for kosen-rufu.
"'The Bodhisattvas of the Earth exist nowhere but here; we are, in fact, the Bodhisattvas of the Earth. Knowing this, I can declare here and now that I, Toda, will carry out kosen-rufu, even if I have to do it alone.'
SGI Newsletter No. 9664, The Human Revolution (Second Edition)––Vol. 1: Chap. 5, "Standing Alone"—Part 3 [of 3], translation released 24th July, 2017
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-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
SOKA-HAN GAJO-KAI NO
DAIGAKUKOSEI YO GANBARE!
SEINEN JIDAI WA KITAE NO TOKI.
SHIN GYO GAKU NO JISSEN NO NAKA DE
MIZUKARA O MIGAKI YUKE!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURU TOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIHINU KOTO WA ARITOMO HI WA NISHI YORI IZURU TOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu - Page 1351)
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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/
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