A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Wednesday, October 18th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To "have faith" is to take action.
The more we take action for kosen-rufu,
the more we expand our circle of friendships
and the more elevated our life condition becomes.
Today, too, is the day to reach out to our friends
with that uplifted energy and spirit we have!
Wednesday, October 18th, 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."
(On Prayer
- WND, Vol. 1, page 345)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Shinbun, October 18th, 2017
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"I met my mentor for the first time at a discussion meeting. I learned about and practised the great philosophy of Nichiren Buddhism at discussion meetings.
"At discussion meetings, together with my beloved fellow members, I created a groundswell of kosen-rufu throughout Japan and all around the world.
"I love discussion meetings more than anything.
"In the 'Former Affairs of the Bodhisattva Medicine King' (23rd) chapter, we find the expression 'like a clear cool pond' (cf. LSOC23, 327). Just as a clear cool pond can quench the thirst of those who are parched, bringing relief to body and mind, the Mystic Law brims with the beneficial power to free all living beings from the sufferings of birth, ageing, sickness, and death.
"In today's growing spiritual desert, discussion meetings are oases that are 'like a clear cool pond,' relieving the thirst and reviving the lives of all those who attend them."
SGI Newsletter No. 9722, Discussion Meetings—Vibrant "Theatres of Happiness," from the November 2017 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 16th Oct. 2017
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
SHINJIN TOWA KODO NO IMYO DA.
KOFU NI UGOKEBA UGOKU HODO
YUJO TO KYOGAI WA HIROGARU.
SA KYO MO HATSURATSUTO
ASHIDORI KARUKU TOMO NO MOTO E!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURUTOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONOWA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIHINU KOTOWA ARITOMO HIWA NISHI YORI IZURU TOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTOWA ARU BEKARAZU"
(Gosho Zenshu page 1351)
Wednesday, October 18th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To "have faith" is to take action.
The more we take action for kosen-rufu,
the more we expand our circle of friendships
and the more elevated our life condition becomes.
Today, too, is the day to reach out to our friends
with that uplifted energy and spirit we have!
Wednesday, October 18th, 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."
(On Prayer
- WND, Vol. 1, page 345)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Shinbun, October 18th, 2017
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"I met my mentor for the first time at a discussion meeting. I learned about and practised the great philosophy of Nichiren Buddhism at discussion meetings.
"At discussion meetings, together with my beloved fellow members, I created a groundswell of kosen-rufu throughout Japan and all around the world.
"I love discussion meetings more than anything.
"In the 'Former Affairs of the Bodhisattva Medicine King' (23rd) chapter, we find the expression 'like a clear cool pond' (cf. LSOC23, 327). Just as a clear cool pond can quench the thirst of those who are parched, bringing relief to body and mind, the Mystic Law brims with the beneficial power to free all living beings from the sufferings of birth, ageing, sickness, and death.
"In today's growing spiritual desert, discussion meetings are oases that are 'like a clear cool pond,' relieving the thirst and reviving the lives of all those who attend them."
SGI Newsletter No. 9722, Discussion Meetings—Vibrant "Theatres of Happiness," from the November 2017 issue of the Daibyakurenge, translation released 16th Oct. 2017
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
SHINJIN TOWA KODO NO IMYO DA.
KOFU NI UGOKEBA UGOKU HODO
YUJO TO KYOGAI WA HIROGARU.
SA KYO MO HATSURATSUTO
ASHIDORI KARUKU TOMO NO MOTO E!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURUTOMO OZORA O TSUNAGU MONOWA ARITOMO SHIO NO MICHIHINU KOTOWA ARITOMO HIWA NISHI YORI IZURU TOMO HOKEKYO NO GYOJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTOWA 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/
And if you are looking for back editions of To My Friends click on...
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