Wednesday, August 25th, 2021
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
By carefully listening to
people's worries and concerns
and offering warm words of
and offering warm words of
encouragement,
let's spread
let's spread
throughout our local community,
the type of bonds,
that help everyone to feel connected
and assured that, "I'm not alone."
Wednesday, August 25th, 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,"
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Newspaper, August 25th, 2021
Thursday, August 26th, 2021
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The author Sohachi Yamaoka (1907-78) depicted the life of the heroic figure Mori Motonari (1497-1571), who unified the Chugoku region* during Japan's Warring States period (1467-1615). There are many famous stories about Motonari, who died 450 years ago this year.
Thursday, August 26th, 2021
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"The author Sohachi Yamaoka (1907-78) depicted the life of the heroic figure Mori Motonari (1497-1571), who unified the Chugoku region* during Japan's Warring States period (1467-1615). There are many famous stories about Motonari, who died 450 years ago this year.
"A monument connected to the Mori clan stands in Akitakata City, Hiroshima Prefecture, engraved with the characters hyakuman isshin, or '1000,000 hearts united as one.' The characters are engraved in a distinctive way, so that they can also be read 'one day, one strength, one heart' – meaning, in other words, that anything can be accomplished if we unite our timing, strength and mind.
"In Yamaoka's novel, Mori Motonari says: '"100,000 hearts united as one" is unity in space. But unity in space is not enough to achieve a goal. Unity through time, indifferent to length, is also essential, a hundred generations united as one heart. Without that as well, nothing important can be achieved.'**
"In the Soka Gakkai, we have 'unity in space' in the form of the spirit of 'many in body, one in mind,' but we also have the great vow of mentor and disciple carried on by the first three Soka Gakkai presidents, directly connected to Nichiren Daishonin and also shared by all Soka Gakkai members. This is 'unity through time, indifferent to length' persisting into the eternal future of the Latter Day of the Law. That is what makes us strong."
Our Brilliant Human Revolution, The Eternal Shared Struggle of Mentor and Disciple, from the April 29th, 2021 issue of the Seikyo Newspaper, translation released July 2021.
* The Chugoku region today encompasses Hiroshima, Okayama, Yamaguchi, Tottori and Shimane prefectures.
** Translated from Japanese. Shohachi Yamaoka, Mori Motonari, in Yamaoka Sohachi Zenshu (The Collected Works of Sohachi Yamaoka), vol.23, edited by Tadachiku Kuwata, et.al. (Tokyo: Kodansha, 1983), p.347.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
NAYAMI YA FUAN NO KOE NI
MIMI O KATAMUKE HAGEMASHITE IKU.
"WATASHI WA HITORI JANAI" TO
MINA GA OMOERU TSUNAGARI O
WAGA CHIIKI NI HIROGE YUKO!
--- 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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