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Monday, February 1, 2021

[sgi-tomyfriends-wagatomo] 1st-7th Feb. 2021 Words of the Week, 1st Feb. Daily Gosho & 2nd Feb. Daily Encouragement

A translation of "Words of the Week" published in the Seikyo Newspaper based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.

February 1st-7th, 2020
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
The growth and development
of capable people 
is the ultimate hope
to ensure that the Law 
will long endure*.
The firm solidarity of young people 
determines the victory of
kosen-rufu's advancement.
Let's all, every one of us, 
start anew 
brimming with the spirit of a
Bodhisattva of the Earth!

* The Lotus Sutra, the "Treasure Tower" chapter

Monday, February 1st, 2021
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"This passage refers to the great joy that one experiences when one understands for the first time that one's mind from the very beginning has been a Buddha. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys."

(The Essential Passage in Each of the Twenty-eight Chapters of the Lotus Sutra, Prophecy of Enlightenment for Five Hundred Disciples -
OTT, page 211)
Selection Source: 
Ikeda Sensei's message, 
Seikyo Newspaper, Feb. 1st, 2021

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2021
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The spirit of sharing Buddhism, whether or not we achieve immediate results, is the spirit of the Buddha. Such efforts themselves constitute the sacred endeavour to enable all people to attain happiness, which is the Buddha's wish. We will gain immeasurable benefit from doing so, without fail."

The Buddhism of the Sun—Illuminating the World, [58] Creating a Century of Humanism in Which All Can Shine—Part 2 [0f 5], The Spirit of Sharing Buddhism Is the Spirit of the Buddha, February 2020 issue of Daibyaku Renge, translation released December 2020

The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/

-- KONSHU NO KOTOBA --
JINZAI NO SEICHO KOSO
"RYOBO KUJU" NO KIBO.
SEINEN NO RENTAI KOSO
"KOSEN-RUFU" NO SHORI.
MINA GA JIYU NO INOCHI DE SHUPPATSU DA!

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
KONO MON WA HAJIMETE WAGA KOKORO HONRAI NO HOTOKE NARI TO SHIRU O SUNAWACHI DAIKANKI TO NAZUKU IWAYURU NANMYOHORENGEKYO WA KANKI NO NAKA NO DAIKANKI NARI
(Gosho Zenshu page 788)

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