A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Friday, November 24th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's help to raise our new
Friday, November 24th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's help to raise our new
and "younger" members
so that they become
even more capable than we are!
It's from a "leaders'" full on earnest
It's from a "leaders'" full on earnest
efforts to encourage others that
our joyful solidarity spreads.
Friday, November 24th, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
A person of wisdom is one who, understanding the time, spreads the teachings of the lotus sutra accordingly; this is their most important task. If a person's throat is dry, what they need is water; they have no use for bows and arrows, weapons and sticks. If a person is naked, they want a suit of clothes but has no need for water. From one or two examples you can guess the principle that applies in general.
Letter to Horen,
- WND, page 518)
Selection Source: Daily Wisdom,
Nov. 24th, 2017
Saturday, November 25th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"I stopped by the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and viewed the exhibition 'A Monumental Journey to the Far Side of the World: The Art of Renaissance Italy and the Boys of Tensho-Era Japan.'
"One of the pieces on display is a plate depicting the Roman general Julius Caesar liberating the people. Caesar once said before a difficult battle: 'The disadvantage [we face] . . . could be remedied by speed alone.'[1]
"The Soka Gakkai's strength lies in its speed. No matter what the obstacles, the champions of Soka achieve resounding victories, defying all odds, through their swift and courageous action."
SGI Newsletter No. 9736, Forging Ahead in the New Era, (19) Be Valiant Torchbearers of Truth and Justice!, from 14th Oct., 2017, issue of the Seikyo Shinbun, translation released 8th Nov. 2017
Selection Source: Daily Wisdom,
Nov. 24th, 2017
Saturday, November 25th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"I stopped by the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum and viewed the exhibition 'A Monumental Journey to the Far Side of the World: The Art of Renaissance Italy and the Boys of Tensho-Era Japan.'
"One of the pieces on display is a plate depicting the Roman general Julius Caesar liberating the people. Caesar once said before a difficult battle: 'The disadvantage [we face] . . . could be remedied by speed alone.'[1]
"The Soka Gakkai's strength lies in its speed. No matter what the obstacles, the champions of Soka achieve resounding victories, defying all odds, through their swift and courageous action."
SGI Newsletter No. 9736, Forging Ahead in the New Era, (19) Be Valiant Torchbearers of Truth and Justice!, from 14th Oct., 2017, issue of the Seikyo Shinbun, translation released 8th Nov. 2017
[1] Caesar, The Gallic War, translated by H. J. Edwards (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2006), p. 447.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
KOHAI YA ATARASHII DOSHI O
JIBUN IJO O JINZAI NI!
"Leader" NO SHINKEN SA TO
KONSHIN NO HAGEMASHI KARA
KANKI NO RENTAI WA HIROGARU!
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
KOHAI YA ATARASHII DOSHI O
JIBUN IJO O JINZAI NI!
"Leader" NO SHINKEN SA TO
KONSHIN NO HAGEMASHI KARA
KANKI NO RENTAI WA HIROGARU!
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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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