A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Saturday, March 30th, 2019
the best season to be active!
In our beloved local community,
let's have conversations
that help others to really smile!
Let's offer them
warm caring words of encouragement!
First and foremost though,
let's start off by chanting daimoku!
Saturday, March 30th, 2019
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"To uphold the body of the Buddha means to uphold the belief that outside of our own bodies there is no Buddha."
( The Emergence of the Treasure Tower chapter
- OTT, page 97)
Selection Source:
SGI President Ikeda's guidance,
Seikyo Shinbun, March 30th, 2019
Sunday, March 31s 2019
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"I would like to share some passages from the Daishonin's writings that I hope we will all engrave in our hearts again…. The Kansai members and I read these words together at the district leaders' meeting on January 5th, 1956 that marked the actual start of the historic Osaka Campaign*:
"'I am praying that, no matter how troubled the times may become, the Lotus Sutra and the ten demon daughters [guardian deities of Buddhism] will protect all of you, praying as earnestly as though to produce fire from damp wood, or to obtain water from parched ground.' (WND –1, 444)
*
"'Employ the strategy of the Lotus Sutra before any other.' (WND –1, 1001)
"Let's each vigorously enact an inspiring drama of positively transforming our environment into a beautiful realm of lasting peace and prosperity in the place where we have vowed to fulfil our mission!"
Constructing the New Era — NEW SERIES, A Year of Good Health, Benefit & Victory!, January 5th 2019, Seikyo Newspaper, translation released March 2019.
* In May 1956, the Kansai members, uniting around a young Daisaku Ikeda, who had been dispatched by second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda to support them, introduced 11,111 households to Nichiren Buddhism. In elections held two months later, the Soka Gakkai-backed candidate in Kansai won a seat in the Upper House, an accomplishment that was thought all but impossible at the time.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
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WAGA AISURU CHIIKI DE
EGAO MANKAI NO TAIWA O!
KOKORO ATATAKANA HAGEMASHI O!
MAZU INORI KARA SHUPPATSU DA.
(Gosho Zenshu page 742)
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