A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Friday, May 17th, 2019
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
"Faith is rejoicing."
Friday, May 17th, 2019
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
"Faith is rejoicing."
Let's share our
experiences in faith with jubilance!
Then joy and conviction will spread.
Let's light a fire of determination
in our friends' hearts!
Then joy and conviction will spread.
Let's light a fire of determination
in our friends' hearts!
* The Recorded Lectures, (Niko's Records). A compilation of Nichiren Daishonin's lectures at Mount Minobu between 1278 and 1280, recorded by Niko, one of the six senior priests designated by the Daishonin. "Rejoicing is faith, and faith is rejoicing."
Friday, May 17th, 2019
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
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 - Friday, May 17th, 2019
Saturday, May 18th, 2019
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"What triggers war and all the other threats to human survival? What are their causes?
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
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 - Friday, May 17th, 2019
Saturday, May 18th, 2019
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"What triggers war and all the other threats to human survival? What are their causes?
"Nichiren Daishonin insights a Buddhist treaties stating: 'Because anger increases in intensity, strife of arms occurs. Because greed increases in intensity, famine arises. Because foolishness increases in intensity, pestilence breaks out. And because these three calamities occur, earthly desires grow more powerful and false views increasingly flourish'*(OTT, 33).
"In other words, at the most fundamental level, the turmoil of war, famine and pestilence arises from defilements within our lives, from the three poisons of greed, anger and foolishness.** Based on this, we must face the prospect that Japan and the rest of the world will always be prone to such tragedies."
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.
* T'ien-t'ai's "Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sutra."
** Three poisons of greed, anger and foolishness: The fundamental evils inherent in life that give rise to human suffering. In the renowned Mahayana scholar Nagarajuna's "Treatise on the Great Perfection of Wisdom," the three poisons are regarded as the source of all illusions and earthly desires. The three poisons are so called because they pollute people's lives and work to prevent them from turning their hearts and minds to goodness.
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-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
"SHINJIN SURU WA ZUIKI NARI"
WAGA SHINKOU TAIKEN O
IKI-IKI TO TSUTAEYOU!
KANKI TO KAKUSHIN WA DEMPA SURU.
TOMO NO KYOUCHUU NI KETSUI NO HONOO O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURU TOMO, OOZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA ARI TOMO, SHIO NO MICHI HINU KOTO WA ARI TOMO, HI WA NISHI YORI IZURU TOMO, HOKEKYOU NO GYOUJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU
(Gosho Zenshu page 1351)
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
"SHINJIN SURU WA ZUIKI NARI"
WAGA SHINKOU TAIKEN O
IKI-IKI TO TSUTAEYOU!
KANKI TO KAKUSHIN WA DEMPA SURU.
TOMO NO KYOUCHUU NI KETSUI NO HONOO O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
DAICHI WA SASABA HAZURURU TOMO, OOZORA O TSUNAGU MONO WA ARI TOMO, SHIO NO MICHI HINU KOTO WA ARI TOMO, HI WA NISHI YORI IZURU TOMO, HOKEKYOU NO GYOUJA NO INORI NO KANAWANU KOTO WA ARU BEKARAZU
(Gosho Zenshu page 1351)
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