A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Shinbun based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Saturday, July 27th, 2019
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all students who have
entrance examinations* ahead of them
and who are challenging themselves
during this hot summer at such a critical time,
never ever give up, don't be defeated!
Everyone is chanting daimoku
to help you do your very best.
Try to give this period your best shot
each and every day with no regrets!
*Japanese students and some other Asian countries start their new school year in the beginning of the next year and the summer "holidays" prior to that are often spent studying/practising at home or going to special cram schools. Sometimes these exams are for young people entering primary and then junior high, senior high and university and with the younger ones these exams start form late October!
Saturday, July 27th, 2019
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"When we revere Myoho-renge-kyo inherent in our own life as the object of devotion, the Buddha nature within us is summoned forth and manifested by our chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. This is what is meant by "Buddha." To illustrate, when a caged bird sings, birds who are flying in the sky are thereby summoned and gather around, and when the birds flying in the sky gather around, the bird in the cage strives to get out. When with our mouths we chant the Mystic Law, our Buddha nature, being summoned, will invariably emerge."
(How Those Initially Aspiring to the Way Can Attain Buddhahood through the Lotus Sutra
- WND, Vol. 1, page 887)
Selection Source:
For YMD study meetings,
Seikyo Shinbun, July 27th, 2019
Sunday, July 28th, 2019
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"When we talk with someone, we aren't speaking solely to the person before us. That person has a family, friends and many young successors who will carry on their work. A beautiful dialogue in which there is a meeting of hearts is always the starting point for fresh future conversations, the first step to creating an ever-growing network of friendship."
The Wisdom for Creating Happiness and Peace, Part 3: Kosen-rufu and World Peace, Chapter 28: Peace, Culture and Education: The Flowering of a New Humanism, 28..24 Choosing Dialogue, Peace Proposal titled "Towards a New Era of Dialogue: Humanism Explored," 30th SGI Day, Jan. 26th, 2005, from the December 2017 issue of the 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 --
TENNOZAN NO NATSU NI IDOMU
JUKENSEI MAKERUNA!
"Best" O TSUKUSERUYO
MINA GA INOTTE IRU.
KUINAKI ICHINICHI ICHINICHI O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"WAGA KOSHIN NO MYOHORENGEKYO O HONZON TO AGAME TATEMATSURITE WAGA KOSHINCHU NO BUSSHO NANMYOHORENGEKYO TO YOBI YOBARETE ARAWARE TAMO TOKORO O HOTOKE TOWA IUNARI TATOEBA KAGONO NAKANO TORI NAKEBE SORATOBU TORINO YOBARETE ATSUMARUGA GOTOSHI SORA TOBU TORINO ATSUMAREBA KAGO NO NAKANO TORI MO IDENTO SURUGA GOTOSHI KUCHI NI MYOHO O YOBI TATEMATSUREBA WAGAMI NO BUSSHO MO YOBARETE KANARAZU ARAWARE TAMAU"
(Gosho Zenshu page 557)
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from there on it is all automatic!
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!
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http://www.sgi-uk.org/buddhism/practice
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