[sgi-tomyfriends-wagatomo] Words of the Week March 8th-14th, 2021, Daily Gosho March 8th & Daily Encouragement March 9th

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

March 8th-14th, 2021
-- WORDS OF THE WEEK --
The Daishonin states,
"Suffer what there is to suffer, 

enjoy what there is to enjoy."*
With our proud Soka family in Tohoku,**
the flaghead of the 

Bodhisattvas of the Earth,
who have shown us 

victorious dramas of overcoming 

from the disaster***,
let's advance together by 

"changing all poison 

   into medicine"!****
Let's strive altogether 

to establish a world illuminated 

full of the restoring light of happiness!

*"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." - WND-I, page 681

** Tohoku is a region in the northern part of Japan 
***On March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami struck the Tohoku-Kanto
region, leaving a trail of devastation of an unprecedented magnitude.
****Changing Poison into Medicine -
https://www.sokaglobal.org/resources/study-materials/buddhist-concepts/changing-poison-into-medicine.html

Monday, March 8th, 2021
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"A blue fly, if it clings to the tail of a thoroughbred horse, can
travel ten thousand miles, and the green ivy that twines around the
tall pine can grow to a thousand feet."

(On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land 

- WND, Vol. 1, page 17)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin," 

Seikyo Newspaper, March 8th, 2021

Tuesday, March 9th, 2021
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'It seemed impossible to me to leave this world before I had produced all that I felt capable of producing.'* These are the words of Beethoven, the renowned composer whose 250th birthday is celebrated this month. He wrote them at a time when he was gradually losing his hearing, a terrible blow for a musician.

"Yet even after he lost his hearing entirely, Beethoven continued his creative life, composing numerous masterpieces, including the Ninth Symphony. In fact, had he not experienced this adversity, he might never have composed that work. It was his burning conviction to triumph spiritually over this hardship that made him the great composer that he is.

"A person's true worth is forged and revealed amid adversity. Nichiren Daishonin writes: 'Iron, when heated in the flames and pounded, becomes a fine sword" (WND-1, 303)."

Our Brilliant Human Revolution, Advancing with Courage and Hope towards a New Dawn, from the 25th December, 2020, issue of the Seikyo Newspaper, translation released February 2021.

The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's

http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/

-- KONSHU NO KOTOBA --
"KU OBA KU TO SATORI
RAKU OBA RAKU TO HIRAKI"
JIYU NO HATAGASHIRA NO TOHOKU KAZOKU TO
HENDOKU IYAKU NO ZENSHIN O!
FUKKO SHORI NO KENSETSU O!

--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"SOYO KIBI NI FUSHITE BANRI O WATARI HEKIRA SHOTO NI KAKARITE SENJIN O NOBU
(Gosho Zenshu page 26)

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