[sgi-tomyfriends-wagatomo] 15th Feb. 2021 Daily Gosho + 16th Feb. Daily Encouragement

*Today is a Japanese national press holiday to give those involved in producing and delivering a newspaper a rest. Therefore "To My Friends" will not be run but everything else will carry on! Back up to full steam tomorrow!... 

Monday, February 15th, 2021
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"Life at each moment encompasses the body and mind and the self and environment of all sentient beings in the Ten Worlds as well as all insentient beings in the three thousand realms, including plants, sky, earth and even the minutest particles of dust. Life at each moment permeates the entire realm of phenomena and is revealed in all phenomena."

(On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 3)
Selection Source: Editorial, 

Daibyakurenge, February 2021 issue

Tuesday, February 16th, 2021
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Mr Toda said: 'Though we are suffering ourselves, we reach out to others to encourage them and help them become happy. That is how we become Buddhas and enfold our families and loved ones in great good fortune.'

"How to relieve the sufferings of others is the concern of a Buddha, the noblest concern of all. Based on the principle that earthly desires lead to enlightenment,* our concern for others enables us to forge and polish our lives, accumulate causes for attaining Buddhahood and enjoy immeasurable good fortune."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [58] Creating a Century of Humanism in Which All Can Shine—Part 2 [0f 5], The Practice for Breaking through Fundamental Ignorance,  February 2020 issue of Daibyaku Renge, translation released December 2020

* "Earthly desires are enlightenment" means that the wisdom for awakening to the ultimate truth for attaining Buddhahood (enlightenment) manifests in the lives of ordinary people who are ruled by earthly desires.

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--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"ISSHIN HOKAI NO MUNE TOWA JIKKAI SANZEN NO ESHO SHIKISHIN HIJO SOMOKU KOKU SETSUDO IZUREMO NOZOKAZU CHIRI MO KONORAZU ICHINEN NO KOKORO NI OSAMETE KONO ICHINEN NO KOKORO HOKAI NI HENMAN SURU O SASHITE BAMPO TOWA IUNARI"
(Gosho Zenshu page 383)

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