A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Thursday, May 16th, 2019
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's do our best to encourage our friends
who are battling with health problems!
To the family members
who are caring for the sick and elderly,
let's inspire them with hope and reassurance!
Our efforts to try to remove their suffering
and give them joy is an act of a bodhisattva
and it is the noblest path as a Buddhist.*
*removing suffering and giving joy ［抜苦与楽］( bakku-yoraku): The practice of compassion in Buddhism. Compassion is interpreted as encompassing the two merciful deeds: saving other people from their sufferings and giving them peace and delight. From its inception Buddhism encourages its followers to rescue people from suffering and give them peace and joy.
(https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/R/34)
Thursday, May 16th, 2019
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Blue dye comes from indigo, but when something is repeatedly dyed in it, the colour is better than that of the indigo plant.10 The Lotus Sutra remains the same, but if you repeatedly strengthen your resolve, your colour will be better than that of others, and you will receive more blessings than they do."
(The Supremacy of the Law
- WND, Vol. 1, page 615)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Shinbun, May 16th, 2019
Friday, May 17th, 2019
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The purpose of our Buddhist practice is to enable people to courageously uphold their principles and advance on the great path to happiness, undeterred by harassment or persecution from those in power; it is to protect human dignity and achieve lasting peace and spiritual freedom for all people."
Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chapter 28: Peace, Culture and education: The Flowering of a New Humanism, 28.21 Inner Transformation is the Key, Oct. 15th, 1989, December 2017 issue of the Daibyaku-renge Magazine, translation released May 2019.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
YAMAI TO TATAKAU TOMO NI YUKI O!
KANBYO KAIGO SURU KAZOKU NI
KIBO TO ANSHIN O!
BAKKU YORAKU NO BOSATSUDO KOSO
BUPPOSHA NO ODO DA.
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"AOKI KOTOWA AI YORI IDETAREDOMO KASANUREBA AI YORIMO IRO MASARU ONAJI HOKEKYO NITEWA OWASUREDOMO KOKOROZASHI O KASANUREBA TANIN YORIMO IRO MASARI RISHO MO ARU BEKINARI"
(Gosho Zenshu page 1221)
Thursday, May 16th, 2019
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Let's do our best to encourage our friends
who are battling with health problems!
To the family members
who are caring for the sick and elderly,
let's inspire them with hope and reassurance!
Our efforts to try to remove their suffering
and give them joy is an act of a bodhisattva
and it is the noblest path as a Buddhist.*
*removing suffering and giving joy ［抜苦与楽］( bakku-yoraku): The practice of compassion in Buddhism. Compassion is interpreted as encompassing the two merciful deeds: saving other people from their sufferings and giving them peace and delight. From its inception Buddhism encourages its followers to rescue people from suffering and give them peace and joy.
(https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/R/34)
Thursday, May 16th, 2019
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Blue dye comes from indigo, but when something is repeatedly dyed in it, the colour is better than that of the indigo plant.10 The Lotus Sutra remains the same, but if you repeatedly strengthen your resolve, your colour will be better than that of others, and you will receive more blessings than they do."
(The Supremacy of the Law
- WND, Vol. 1, page 615)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Shinbun, May 16th, 2019
Friday, May 17th, 2019
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The purpose of our Buddhist practice is to enable people to courageously uphold their principles and advance on the great path to happiness, undeterred by harassment or persecution from those in power; it is to protect human dignity and achieve lasting peace and spiritual freedom for all people."
Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chapter 28: Peace, Culture and education: The Flowering of a New Humanism, 28.21 Inner Transformation is the Key, Oct. 15th, 1989, December 2017 issue of the Daibyaku-renge Magazine, translation released May 2019.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
YAMAI TO TATAKAU TOMO NI YUKI O!
KANBYO KAIGO SURU KAZOKU NI
KIBO TO ANSHIN O!
BAKKU YORAKU NO BOSATSUDO KOSO
BUPPOSHA NO ODO DA.
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"AOKI KOTOWA AI YORI IDETAREDOMO KASANUREBA AI YORIMO IRO MASARU ONAJI HOKEKYO NITEWA OWASUREDOMO KOKOROZASHI O KASANUREBA TANIN YORIMO IRO MASARI RISHO MO ARU BEKINARI"
(Gosho Zenshu page 1221)
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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 if you are looking for back editions of To My Friends click on...
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