Thursday, October 8th, 2020
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
To all of those who are fighting illness,
please do not be defeated by sickness!
The Daishonin asserts,
"Myō means to revive, that is,
to return to life."*
With this conviction,
let's continue to chant earnest daimoku,
-- With this conviction,
let's continue to chant earnest daimoku,
without ever giving up,
and show actual proof of how we can,
through practising Nichiren Buddhism,
'change poison into medicine'!**
*Gosho: WND-1, page 149
**Changing Poison into Medicine -
https://www.sgi.org/about-us/buddhist-concepts/changing-poison-into-medicine.html
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law? Strengthen your power of faith more than ever."
(Happiness in This World
and show actual proof of how we can,
through practising Nichiren Buddhism,
'change poison into medicine'!**
*Gosho: WND-1, page 149
**Changing Poison into Medicine -
https://www.sgi.org/about-us/buddhist-concepts/changing-poison-into-medicine.html
Thursday, October 8th, 2020
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law? Strengthen your power of faith more than ever."
(Happiness in This World
- WND, Vol. 1, page 681)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Newspaper, Oct. 8th, 2020
Friday, October 9th, 2020
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"My wife, Kaneko, and I enjoyed a close friendship with Mrs. Rosa Parks (1913–2005), who is regarded as the mother of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Friday, October 9th, 2020
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"My wife, Kaneko, and I enjoyed a close friendship with Mrs. Rosa Parks (1913–2005), who is regarded as the mother of the American Civil Rights Movement.
"Mrs Parks said: 'I have learnt throughout my life that what really matters is not whether we have problems but how we go through them. We must keep on going to make it through whatever we are facing.'*"
Building a Bright Future Based on Our Vow, [13] The Lay Nun Ueno, Nanjo Tokimitsu's Mother, Your Heart Determines the Youth You Lead, from 1st April, 2019 issue of the Mirai (Future) Journal, translation released August 2020
* Rosa Parks, with Gregory J Reed, Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope and the Heart of a Woman Who Changed a Nation (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1994), P.37.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
YAMAI TO TATAKAU MINASAMA
DANJITE MAKERUNA!
"MYO TOWA SOSEI NO GI NARI"
DAIKAKUSHIN NO INORI O KASANE
HENDOKU IYAKU NO JISSHO O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"KU OBA KU TO SATORI RAKU OBA RAKU TO HIRAKI KURAKU TOMONI OMOIAWASETE NAMMYOHORENGEKYO TO UCHITONAE ISASETAMAE KORE ANI JIJUHORAKU NI ARAZUYA IYOIYO GOJO NO SHINRIKI O ITASHI TAMAE"
(Gosho Zenshu page 1143)
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
YAMAI TO TATAKAU MINASAMA
DANJITE MAKERUNA!
"MYO TOWA SOSEI NO GI NARI"
DAIKAKUSHIN NO INORI O KASANE
HENDOKU IYAKU NO JISSHO O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"KU OBA KU TO SATORI RAKU OBA RAKU TO HIRAKI KURAKU TOMONI OMOIAWASETE NAMMYOHORENGEKYO TO UCHITONAE ISASETAMAE KORE ANI JIJUHORAKU NI ARAZUYA IYOIYO GOJO NO SHINRIKI O ITASHI TAMAE"
(Gosho Zenshu page 1143)
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