A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Sunday, November 26th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin encourages us to
"Diligently polish your mirror day and night."*
Each and every day is a challenge
of win or lose.
By persistently trying to chant daimoku,
let's continue to develop those
"treasures of the heart" in our lives!
"Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo."
- "On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime", WND-I, page 4
Sunday, November 26th, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"What is most important is that, by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo alone, you can attain Buddhahood. It will no doubt depend on the strength of your faith. To have faith is the basis of Buddhism."
(The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon
- WND, Vol. 1, page 832)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Shinbun, November 26th, 2017
Monday, November 27th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Daishonin clearly states: 'Nor will I ever reproach [those who persecuted me].' As he points out in another writing where he says, '[this present exile] is not because of any secular crime' (WND-1, 303), he had committed no wrong. All the persecutions and attacks directed at him were unfounded, and it might have been perfectly natural for him to be angry and resentful.
"But he was not. This is because, as taught in the Lotus Sutra, the persecutions he faced were precisely due to his propagation of the correct teaching. They were therefore a source of joy, not resentment."
SGI Newsletter No. 9738, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 27: Chap. 3, Fierce Struggle 36, translation released 9th Nov.2017
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
GOSEIKUN "NICHIYA CHOBONI
MATA OKOTARAZU MIGAKU BESHI"
ICHINICHI ICHINICHI GA SHOBU DA.
TAYUMANU DAIMOKU NO JISSEN DE
KOKORO NO TAKARA O KIZUKI YUKE!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"NAMMYOHORENGEKYO TO BAKARI TONAETE HOTOKE NI NARUBEKI KOTO MOTTOMO TAISETSU NARI SHINJIN NO KOHAKU NI YORU BEKI NARI BUPPO NO KONPON WA SHIN O MOTTE MINAMOTO TO SU"
(Gosho Zenshu page 1244)
Sunday, November 26th, 2017
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin encourages us to
"Diligently polish your mirror day and night."*
Each and every day is a challenge
of win or lose.
By persistently trying to chant daimoku,
let's continue to develop those
"treasures of the heart" in our lives!
"Arouse deep faith, and diligently polish your mirror day and night. How should you polish it? Only by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo."
- "On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime", WND-I, page 4
Sunday, November 26th, 2017
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"What is most important is that, by chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo alone, you can attain Buddhahood. It will no doubt depend on the strength of your faith. To have faith is the basis of Buddhism."
(The Real Aspect of the Gohonzon
- WND, Vol. 1, page 832)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Shinbun, November 26th, 2017
Monday, November 27th, 2017
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The Daishonin clearly states: 'Nor will I ever reproach [those who persecuted me].' As he points out in another writing where he says, '[this present exile] is not because of any secular crime' (WND-1, 303), he had committed no wrong. All the persecutions and attacks directed at him were unfounded, and it might have been perfectly natural for him to be angry and resentful.
"But he was not. This is because, as taught in the Lotus Sutra, the persecutions he faced were precisely due to his propagation of the correct teaching. They were therefore a source of joy, not resentment."
SGI Newsletter No. 9738, The New Human Revolution––Vol. 27: Chap. 3, Fierce Struggle 36, translation released 9th Nov.2017
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
GOSEIKUN "NICHIYA CHOBONI
MATA OKOTARAZU MIGAKU BESHI"
ICHINICHI ICHINICHI GA SHOBU DA.
TAYUMANU DAIMOKU NO JISSEN DE
KOKORO NO TAKARA O KIZUKI YUKE!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"NAMMYOHORENGEKYO TO BAKARI TONAETE HOTOKE NI NARUBEKI KOTO MOTTOMO TAISETSU NARI SHINJIN NO KOHAKU NI YORU BEKI NARI BUPPO NO KONPON WA SHIN O MOTTE MINAMOTO TO SU"
(Gosho Zenshu page 1244)
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from there on it is all automatic!
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...
https://uk.groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/SGI-ToMyFriends-Wagatomo/conversations/messages
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