A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Sunday, June 30th, 2019
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin states,
"A hundred years of practice
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
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-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
"GOKURAKU HYAKUNEN NO SHUGYO WA EDO NO
ICHINICHI NO KUDOKU NI OYOBAZU"
KOFU NI TSUKUSHINUKU HITO NI
MURYO NO KUDOKU WA GENZEN!
SHOTEN MO SHOBUTSU MO DAISANTAN!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"HAJIMETE WAGA KOKORO HONRAINO HOTOKE NARITO SHIRU O SUNAWACHI DAIKANGI TO NAZUKU IWAYURU NANMYOHORENGEKYO WA KANKI NO NAKANO DAIKANGI NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu page 788)
Sunday, June 30th, 2019
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The Daishonin states,
"A hundred years of practice
in the Land of Perfect Bliss
cannot compare to the benefit
gained from one day's practice
in the impure world."*
Those who wholeheartedly
Those who wholeheartedly
devote themselves
to achieving kosen-rufu,
without fail, accumulate
without fail, accumulate
immeasurable benefit
and are praised and admired
and are praised and admired
by all the various Buddhas
and protective forces of the universe!
*Gosho - WND-I, page 736
*Gosho - WND-I, page 736
Sunday, June 30th, 2019
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"This passage refers to the great joy that one experiences when one understands for the first time that one's mind from the very beginning has been a Buddha. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys."
(The Essential Passage in Each of the Twenty-eight Chapters of the Lotus Sutra, Prophecy of Enlightenment for Five Hundred Disciples chapter
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"This passage refers to the great joy that one experiences when one understands for the first time that one's mind from the very beginning has been a Buddha. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys."
(The Essential Passage in Each of the Twenty-eight Chapters of the Lotus Sutra, Prophecy of Enlightenment for Five Hundred Disciples chapter
- OTT, page 211)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Shinbun, June 30th, 2019
Monday, July 1st, 2019
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'Let's fight our hardest, with courage and joy!'—this was the dauntless spirit with which my mentor, second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda, faced the most formidable challenges.
Monday, July 1st, 2019
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'Let's fight our hardest, with courage and joy!'—this was the dauntless spirit with which my mentor, second Soka Gakkai president Josei Toda, faced the most formidable challenges.
"No matter how seemingly desperate the situation, we can absolutely find a way through it with courageous efforts in faith based on the resolve never to retreat a single step. Adversity can be a great creative force."
April Editorial, Never Retreating Is the Heart of Soka, from the monthly magazine Daibyaku Renge, translation released June 2019
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
"GOKURAKU HYAKUNEN NO SHUGYO WA EDO NO
ICHINICHI NO KUDOKU NI OYOBAZU"
KOFU NI TSUKUSHINUKU HITO NI
MURYO NO KUDOKU WA GENZEN!
SHOTEN MO SHOBUTSU MO DAISANTAN!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"HAJIMETE WAGA KOKORO HONRAINO HOTOKE NARITO SHIRU O SUNAWACHI DAIKANGI TO NAZUKU IWAYURU NANMYOHORENGEKYO WA KANKI NO NAKANO DAIKANGI NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu page 788)
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