A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Newspaper based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Tuesday, October 20th 2020
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
The SGI is a gathering
of "good friends in faith."*
Together with our good friends -
encouraging each other
Together with our good friends -
encouraging each other
and strengthening the bonds between us,
we are on the surest path to happiness.
Let's advance harmoniously
we are on the surest path to happiness.
Let's advance harmoniously
in harmonious solidarity!
* (*)In Buddhism, a "good friend" (Skt kalyāna-mitra; Jpn zen-chishiki) is one who leads others to the correct teaching, or helps them in their practice of the correct teaching.
For more: http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/G/56#para-0
Tuesday, October 20th 2020
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"With regard to the Lotus Sutra, when one's hand takes it up, that hand immediately attains Buddhahood, and when one's mouth chants it, that mouth is itself a Buddha"
For more: http://www.nichirenlibrary.org/en/dic/Content/G/56#para-0
Tuesday, October 20th 2020
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"With regard to the Lotus Sutra, when one's hand takes it up, that hand immediately attains Buddhahood, and when one's mouth chants it, that mouth is itself a Buddha"
("Wu-lung and I-lung",
WND-l page 1099)
Selection Source:
Selection Source:
SGI President Ikeda's Message
Seikyo Newspaper: Oct. 19th, 2020
Wednesday, October 21st 2020
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In 'On the Buddha's Prophecy,' the Daishonin stresses the importance of successors, stating: 'Even when… [Buddhist] priests set out from Japan to take some sutras [back] to China, no one was found there who could embrace these sutras and teach them to others. It was as though there were only wooden or stone statues garbed in priests' robes and carrying begging bowls' (WND–1, 401). In other words, without people who embrace and transmit the Buddhist teachings, Buddhism will become as lifeless as 'wooden or stone statues garbed in priests robes and carrying begging bowls.' The undeniable reality is that no group or organisation will endure without people who 'embrace and teach' its ideals to others—in other words, without successors.
Seikyo Newspaper: Oct. 19th, 2020
Wednesday, October 21st 2020
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"In 'On the Buddha's Prophecy,' the Daishonin stresses the importance of successors, stating: 'Even when… [Buddhist] priests set out from Japan to take some sutras [back] to China, no one was found there who could embrace these sutras and teach them to others. It was as though there were only wooden or stone statues garbed in priests' robes and carrying begging bowls' (WND–1, 401). In other words, without people who embrace and transmit the Buddhist teachings, Buddhism will become as lifeless as 'wooden or stone statues garbed in priests robes and carrying begging bowls.' The undeniable reality is that no group or organisation will endure without people who 'embrace and teach' its ideals to others—in other words, without successors.
"The simile describing priests whose lack of action is reminiscent of wooden or stone statues dressed in priests robes underscores a unique characteristic of Buddhism – that without practitioners to carry on and spread it, the spirit of Buddhism will be lost, even though its teachings and images may survive. Buddhism only remains alive and vital through real living people carrying on the teachings in their actions."
The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [52] To My Friends of Each Division Engaged in Our Shared Struggle—Part 6 [of 6], Nurturing Young Successors in the Garden of the Soka Gakkai! From the August 2019 edition of the Daibyaku-renge, translation released August 2020
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
GAKKAI WA "ZEN CHISHIKI" NO TSUDOI.
YOKI TOMO TO HAGEMASHI AI
KIZUNA O MUSUBIYUKU KOTO GA
TASHIKANA SACHI NO KIDŌ DA.
NAKAYOKI SUKURAMU DE ZENSHIN!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"HOKEKKYO TO MOSU WA TE NI TOREBA SONO TE YAGATE HOTOKE NI NARI · KUCHI NI TONAUREBA SONO KUCHI SUNAWACHI HOTOKE NARI"
("UENO AMA GOZEN GOHENJI", Gosho Zenshu page 1580)
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