Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
-- TO MY FRIENDS --
Merely passing on information to others
won't help create understanding
or compliance.
By visiting them, one by one,
and offering them warm caring words
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"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."
(Happiness in This World
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
JOHO O TSUTAERU DAKE DEWA
NATTOKU WA UMARENAI.
TEINEINA HOMON GEKIREI DE
AITE NO OMOI NI MIMI O KATAMUKE
TOMONI KETSUI NO IPPO O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
KU OBA KU TO SATORI RAKU OBA RAKU TO HIRAKI KURAKU TOMONI OMOI AWASETE NAMMYOHORENGEKYO TO UCHITONAE ISASE TAMAE
(Gosho Zenshu page 1143)
-- By visiting them, one by one,
and offering them warm caring words
of encouragement,
let's carefully listen
let's carefully listen
to what their thoughts
and feelings are
and together help them
to take a determined step forwards.
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021
--- DAILY GOSHO ---
"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."
(Happiness in This World
- WND, Vol. 1, page 681)
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Selection Source: "Kyo no Hosshin,"
Seikyo Newspaper, Dec. 15th, 2021
Thursday, December 16th, 2021
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Nichiren Daishonin wrote many letters of encouragement to his young disciple Nanjo Tokimitsu. In one, he urges him to rejoice when obstacles arise, writing: 'If things should not go as you wish…, then determine to be more contented than ever' (WND–2, 576).
Thursday, December 16th, 2021
---- DAILY ENCOURAGEMENT ----
"Nichiren Daishonin wrote many letters of encouragement to his young disciple Nanjo Tokimitsu. In one, he urges him to rejoice when obstacles arise, writing: 'If things should not go as you wish…, then determine to be more contented than ever' (WND–2, 576).
"The more setbacks we encounter, the more we need to remain positive and resolutely rise to the challenges before us."
From "Our Journey of Mentor and Disciple Shining with Hope and Victory, Develop a Strong Inner Self through Buddhist Practice." August 31st, 2021, issue of the Seikyo Newspaper, translation released December 2021.
The Japanese kanji is available by clicking on Seikyo Shinbun's
http://www.seikyoonline.com/news/wagatomo/
-- WAGA TOMO NI OKURU --
JOHO O TSUTAERU DAKE DEWA
NATTOKU WA UMARENAI.
TEINEINA HOMON GEKIREI DE
AITE NO OMOI NI MIMI O KATAMUKE
TOMONI KETSUI NO IPPO O!
--- KYO NO GOSHO ---
KU OBA KU TO SATORI RAKU OBA RAKU TO HIRAKI KURAKU TOMONI OMOI AWASETE NAMMYOHORENGEKYO TO UCHITONAE ISASE TAMAE
(Gosho Zenshu page 1143)
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