A translation of "To My Friends" published in the Seikyo Newspaper based on President Ikeda's recent guidance, and more.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
It's when facing challenges
that genuine faith
and practice is tested.
Based on chanting powerful daimoku,
let's be the one
with an indomitable spirit
who creates value
from their struggles!
Tuesday, April 27th, 2021
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"The moon appears in the west and sheds its light eastward, but the sun rises in the east and casts its rays to the west. The same is true of Buddhism. It spread from west to east in the Former and Middle Days of the Law, but will travel from east to west in the Latter Day."
("On the Buddha's Prophecy",
WND-l page 401 )
Selection Source: Illuminate Tomorrow
Seikyo Newspaper: April 27th, 2021
Wednesday, April 28th, 2021
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"'Know yourself!' is an important philosophical theme explored since the times of ancient Greece. Nichiren Buddhism is a teaching that illuminates the true meaning of who we are from the fundamental perspective of life and its eternity throughout past, present and future.
"The Daishonin states: 'Great joy [is what] one experiences when one understands for the first time that one's mind [or life] from the very beginning has been a Buddha. Nam-myoho-renge-kyo is the greatest of all joys'(cf. OTT, 211–12).
"Chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo awakens us to the truth that our life itself is that of a Buddha and that we embody the Mystic Law. Through chanting, we come to realise that we are by no means powerless, weak or insignificant, but rather that our life is incredibly noble and respectworthy, capable of harnessing the unsurpassed power of the Buddha that is one with the universe."
1st Youth Division Leaders' Meeting, Brim with the Great Joy of the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, Seikyo Newspaper February 1st, 2021, translation released April 2021.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
"MAKOTO NO SHINJIN" WA
GYAKKYŌ NO TOKI KOSO TAMESARESU.
GŌJŌNA INORI O KONPON NI
KACHI O SŌZŌSHIYUKU
"MAKEJI DAMASHI" NO HITO TARE!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
"TSUKI WA NISHI YORI IDETE HIGASHI O TERASHI HI WA HIGASHI YORI IDETE NISHI O TERASU BUPPŌ MO MATA MOTTE KAKUNO GOTOSHI SHŌZŌ NIWA NISHI YORI HIGASHI NI MUKAI MAPPO NIWA HIGASHI YORI NISHI NI YUKU"
("KENBUTSU MIRAI KI", Gosho Zenshu page 508)
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