A translation of "Word of the Week" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
August 7th - 13th, 2017
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
August 7th - 13th, 2017
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
Our "Soka Family Taikai
(festivals/meetings where
all family members are invited)" are
the hope for our local communities
and the world.
Let's all stride joyfully together,
brimming with a youthful spirit!
Let's advance with our
priceless young friends who will be
"even deeper blue
than the indigo plant itself."*
*In his Great Concentration and Insight, the sixth-century Chinese Buddhist teacher T'ien-t'ai used the phrase "from the indigo, an even deeper blue." This employs the example of the ancient process of dyeing cloth using a blue dye made from the indigo plant, where the dyed cloth takes on a deeper blue than the plant from which it was derived due to repeated immersion in the dye. In the same way, if the mentor is likened to the indigo plant, by absorbing the mentor's teachings, the disciple can achieve an even more splendid "blue." (ref.: http://www.joseitoda.org/religious/mentor_disciple.html)
Monday, August 7th, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Bring forth the great power of faith, and be spoken of by all the people of Kamakura, both high and low, or by all the people of Japan, as 'Shijō Kingo, Shijō Kingo of the Lotus school!'"
(Earthly Desires Are Enlightenment
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Bring forth the great power of faith, and be spoken of by all the people of Kamakura, both high and low, or by all the people of Japan, as 'Shijō Kingo, Shijō Kingo of the Lotus school!'"
(Earthly Desires Are Enlightenment
- WND, Vol. I, page 319)
Selection source:
Selection source:
"Kyo no Hosshin", Seikyo Shinbun,
August 7th, 2017
Tuesday, August 8th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
Tuesday, August 8th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Those who stay true to their mission for kosen-rufu are genuine practitioners of Nichiren Buddhism."
SGI Newsletter No. 9686, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 30: Chap. 1 Great Mountain 64, translation released 4th Aug. 2017.
* The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shimbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- KONSHU NO KOTOBA --
-- KONSHU NO KOTOBA --
SOKA "family" TAIKAI WA
CHIIKI TO SEKAI NO KIBO NARI.
MINA GA WAKAKI JIYU NO INOCHI DE
YOROKOBI AFURERU ZENSHIN O!
JURAN NISHO NO TAKARA NO TOMO TO.
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"GOJO NO DAISHINRIKI O IDASHITE HOKKESHU NO SHIJO KING SHIJO KINGO TO KAMAKURAJU NO JOGE BANNIN NAISHI NIHONKOKU NO ISSAI SHUJO NO KUCHI NI UTAWARE TAMAE"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1118)
"GOJO NO DAISHINRIKI O IDASHITE HOKKESHU NO SHIJO KING SHIJO KINGO TO KAMAKURAJU NO JOGE BANNIN NAISHI NIHONKOKU NO ISSAI SHUJO NO KUCHI NI UTAWARE TAMAE"
(Gosho Zenshu, page 1118)
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