A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Thursday, July 18th, 2019
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
All of our dear friends
in the Kansai region
that the world admires for your victorious struggles!
With our ever-victorious undefeatable golden citadel,*
there is absolutely nothing that we need be afraid of!
Let's achieve outstanding victories for kosen-rufu
that people will forever look up to in awe!
*Ref.: SGI President Ikeda's essay, World Tribune, Oct. 12, 2001
Thursday, July 18th, 2019
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"This passage is saying that if in a single moment of life we exhaust the pains and trials of millions of kalpas, then instant after instant there will arise in us the three Buddha bodies with which we are eternally endowed. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo-myoho-renge-kyo is just such a "diligent' practice."
(The Essential Passage in Each of the Twenty-eight Chapters of the Lotus Sutra, Emerging from the Earth
- OTT, page 214)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin",
Seikyo Shinbun, July 18th, 2019
Friday, July 19th, 2019
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Mr. Toda said insightfully: 'Don't be deterred by insults and criticisms that resound like the din of yapping dogs. Don't let yourselves be swayed by anything so trivial. Walk the path of heroes. Walk the path of the great. What we are undergoing now is but a tiny fraction of the obstacles encountered by the Daishonin, whose teachings we uphold.' Let us also make our way with the same dauntless state of mind as Mr. Toda!"
41st Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders' Meeting, from excerpts of the 49th SG Headquarters Leaders' meeting May 2005, Action Is the True Proof of faith, May 14th 2019 Seikyo Newspaper, 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 --
SEKAI NI HANTARU DAIKANSAI YO!
WARERA JOSHO NO KINSHUJO NI
OSORERU MONO NASHI!
MIRAI NI AOGAREYUKU
KOFU NO DAIKINJITO O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"ICHINEN NI OKUGO NO SHINRO O TSUKUSEBA HONRAI MUSANO SANJIN NENNEN NI OKORUNARI IWAYURU NANMYOHORENGEKYO HA SHOJINGYO NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu page 790)
Thursday, July 18th, 2019
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
All of our dear friends
in the Kansai region
that the world admires for your victorious struggles!
With our ever-victorious undefeatable golden citadel,*
there is absolutely nothing that we need be afraid of!
Let's achieve outstanding victories for kosen-rufu
that people will forever look up to in awe!
*Ref.: SGI President Ikeda's essay, World Tribune, Oct. 12, 2001
Thursday, July 18th, 2019
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"This passage is saying that if in a single moment of life we exhaust the pains and trials of millions of kalpas, then instant after instant there will arise in us the three Buddha bodies with which we are eternally endowed. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo-myoho-renge-kyo is just such a "diligent' practice."
(The Essential Passage in Each of the Twenty-eight Chapters of the Lotus Sutra, Emerging from the Earth
- OTT, page 214)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin",
Seikyo Shinbun, July 18th, 2019
Friday, July 19th, 2019
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Mr. Toda said insightfully: 'Don't be deterred by insults and criticisms that resound like the din of yapping dogs. Don't let yourselves be swayed by anything so trivial. Walk the path of heroes. Walk the path of the great. What we are undergoing now is but a tiny fraction of the obstacles encountered by the Daishonin, whose teachings we uphold.' Let us also make our way with the same dauntless state of mind as Mr. Toda!"
41st Soka Gakkai Headquarters Leaders' Meeting, from excerpts of the 49th SG Headquarters Leaders' meeting May 2005, Action Is the True Proof of faith, May 14th 2019 Seikyo Newspaper, 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 --
SEKAI NI HANTARU DAIKANSAI YO!
WARERA JOSHO NO KINSHUJO NI
OSORERU MONO NASHI!
MIRAI NI AOGAREYUKU
KOFU NO DAIKINJITO O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"ICHINEN NI OKUGO NO SHINRO O TSUKUSEBA HONRAI MUSANO SANJIN NENNEN NI OKORUNARI IWAYURU NANMYOHORENGEKYO HA SHOJINGYO NARI"
(Gosho Zenshu page 790)
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Check out the following address if you are looking for an important gosho quote
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